In late July the government released the latest set of Community Life Survey data which included up-to-date figures on levels volunteering. The release was very low-key, in contrast with the previous release 18 months ago when a much-heralded post-Olympic rise in volunteering levels was championed as proof that the Big Society was working.
Not only was the most recent release much more muted; but the data is presented in a much less accessible format of Excel spreadsheets compared to the nice, easy to understand graphs of 2013.