Volunteer Salt Spring

"Your Gateway to Volunteering on Salt Spring Island"

Did You Know?

• Volunteers are enhancing the quality of life all around us, every day, in a variety of ways.
• Studies show that volunteers live longer and lead more fulfilling lives.
• The volunteer or "non-profit" sector is one of the three major components of our country's economy along with corporate or "for-profit" sector and government.
• The 1998 National Survey on Giving, Participating and Volunteering in Canada found that volunteers in B.C. contribute 169 million hours each year. This is the equivalent of 88,000 full-time jobs.
• The NSGVP also found a higher percentage of rural British Columbians volunteer compared to volunteers in more densely populated areas.