The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t stopped NSW residents from participating in community work, a new report has found. The Centre for Volunteering and the NSW Department of Communities and Justice this week published their findings after surveying over 1,100 volunteers and 1,000 volunteer organisations. The report found over 4.9 million residents of the state volunteered for a collective 1.5 billion hours in 2020, with the sum of their labour being valued at $127 billion.
