About Glasgow's voluntary sector
The facts and figures...
There are
almost 16,000
paid staff in Glasgow's voluntary and
community sector.
In addition, over 25,000 Glaswegians do some unpaid voluntary work every week for organisations with paid staff.
The annual income of the staffed sector is over £306 million.
Over 71% of voluntary and community groups focus on the ‘hard to reach', including low income households, drug users, disabled people, people with mental health problems, those with learning difficulties and older people.
The sector is a major employer in the city, accounting for 4% of Glasgow's workforce.
351 organisations across the city with paid employees focus their work on one or more equality group.
232 organisations with paid employees focus on providing services to young people.
100% of organisations focusing on the LGBT community provide a citywide service.
Over 50% of Glasgow's disability organisations provide a citywide service.
Over 50% of black / minority ethnic organisations provide a citywide service.
Almost 50% of mental health organisations provide a citywide service.
Glasgow's voluntary sector has a relatively low staff turnover rate at 14%, compared to 24% for other sectors within Scotland, (as reported in the Futureskills Scotland 2005 report).
Only 1 in 10 of all
positions within Glasgow's
voluntary sector involves some kind of administrative work. About 12% of the workforce is engaged
in providing specialist support.
A Scottish Executive report
in 2005 found that voluntary sector employers are more likely to have funded or
arranged training for their staff than employers in other sectors - 81% of voluntary
sector employers compared with 66% in
other sectors.
Support and supervision systems also compare favourably with private-sector employers, with 87% of organisations having a system of staff supervision in place and 75% having a staff appraisal system.
As is the case Scotland wide, the majority - 69% - of paid employees are female.
Some 4% of employees are from the black and ethnic minority community - broadly in line with Glasgow as a whole.