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COVID-19 and the Voluntary and Community Sector in the UK: Responses, Impacts and Adaptation

COVID-19 and the Voluntary and Community Sector in the UK: Responses, Impacts and Adaptation

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The voluntary sector played a crucial role in the COVID-19 response by providing essential services, addressing inequalities, and coordinating action where the state was slow to respond. This book collects rigorous research on the sector's response and adaptation during the pandemic, exploring the impact on workforce, volunteers, and beneficiaries and offering insights for maximizing the sector's contribution in future crises.

Format: Hardback
Length: 268 pages
Publication date: 30 September 2022
Publisher: Bristol University Press

The voluntary sector played a pivotal role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing critical needs, shedding light on existing inequalities, and coordinating efforts where the state had been slow to act. This comprehensive book presents a collection of rigorous academic, policy, and practice-based research that delves into the response and adaptation of the UK voluntary sector during this challenging period. Contributions explore the sector's strategies for navigating new challenges and the long-term impacts on its workforce, volunteers, and beneficiaries. Designed for researchers and practitioners alike, this book examines the lessons learned from the pandemic and offers insights on how the voluntary sector can maximize its contribution in future crises.

The voluntary sector was central to the COVID-19 response: fulfilling basic needs, highlighting new and existing inequalities and coordinating action where the state had been slow to respond.


This book curates rigorous academic, policy and practice-based research into the response and adaptation of the UK voluntary sector during the pandemic.


Contributions explore the ways the sector responded to new challenges and the longer-term consequences for the sectors workforce, volunteers and beneficiaries.


Written for researchers and practitioners, this book considers what the voluntary sector can learn from the pandemic to maximize its contribution in the event of future crises.

Weight: 576g
Dimension: 161 x 241 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781447365501

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