Sector's workforce has continued to grow despite the recession - Third Sector

Sector's workforce has continued to grow despite the recession - Third Sector: "Strong positive trend' has prevailed despite job cuts in private sector, says NCVO research team

Despite redundancies and mergers, the voluntary sector could well survive the recession without any decline in the size of its workforce.

Unpublished figures produced by the NCVO for the training body Skills - Third Sector show that the number of sector staff was still rising in the second quarter of 2009, when gross domestic product had its largest decline."