The charts provide breakdowns of number of people volunteering in several fields in 2008 and 2014
Overall, there was a noticeable shift in people’s preferences of where to volunteer, with less people wanting to work at educational sector, in contrast to sport organizations, which experienced the opposite. Similarly, number of volunteers increased in enviromental and health care portions, while art and other sectors witnessed a loss of people willing to work for free over the period.
Focusing on the portions that saw an increase, sport witnessed a massive flow of volunteers with rising by 10% within six years and ending the period with a quarter of chart and getting to a second place amongst organizations that have most volunteers in 2014. The most popular sector in 2014 was environmental sector, which had a large growth in voluntary workers growing from 21% to 29% over the subsequent period. Additionally in both years given health care attracted the least number of volunteers having a slight rise of 1% and being at 8% in 2014.
A completely different scenario has been observed in other fields, since the most popular portion of 2008 in terms of having workplace for voluntary workers (educational) was at almost a quarter, but fell down all the way to 17%, ending the period at third place. Similar trend can be seen for art and other portions, which also decreased significantly by 6% and in 2014 sectors had 12% and 9% out of all volunteers working in any area.