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  • Experience of volunteering by young people in Northern Ireland 2025

    Topics:
    • Statistics and research, 
    • Voluntary and community statistics

    Date published: 8 October 2026

    Statistics on experience of volunteering: findings from the 2025 Young Persons’ Behaviour and Attitudes Survey.

    This bulletin presents analysis on the following topics:

    • Participation in volunteering
    • Areas of volunteering
    • Frequency of volunteering
    • Benefits of volunteering
    • Factors that would encourage volunteering

    Note: The questions relating to volunteering were reviewed for the 2025 survey to improve the collection of data on informal volunteering. As a result of changes to the questions, definitions and survey content, the 2025 findings are not directly comparable with findings from previous survey years.

    This Experience of volunteering by young people in Northern Ireland 2025 publication is available to view in html format.

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    • Experience of volunteering by young people in Northern Ireland, 2025Microsoft Excel (61.72 KB)
    • Experience of volunteering by young people in Northern Ireland, 2025OpenDocument spreadsheet (27.23 KB)
    • Experience of volunteering by young people in Northern Ireland Background Quality Report, 2025Adobe PDF (153.96 KB)
    • Experience of volunteering by young people, 2025 Pre-Release Access ListAdobe PDF (68.56 KB)
    • Department for Communities Modules on the Young Persons’ Behaviour and Attitudes Survey QuestionnaireAdobe PDF (320.29 KB)

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