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title = "United Kingdom",
abstract = "Within the United Kingdom (UK), sports volunteering is understood broadly as willingly giving up one{\textquoteright}s free time to assist others in sport for no payment. It in-volves a very wide range of activities, contexts and roles which are outlined in the chapter. It is widely accepted that volunteers are the “lifeblood” of sport and ap-proximately 15% of people in England volunteered in sport at least once during 2016 (6.7million). The main context for sports volunteering is the sports club or community sports association (75% of sports volunteers). Sports event volunteer-ing is becoming more visible but remains just a fraction of the overall volunteering activity in sport (1.3%). Overall volunteers are the main decision-makers in sport in the UK, although a professionalization agenda has increased the number of paid staff in larger, national organizations.",
keywords = "sports economics, sports volunteering, United Kingdom, social impact ",
author = "Fiona Reid and Lindsay Findlay-King",
year = "2019",
month = feb,
day = "6",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-02354-6",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030023539",
series = "Sports Economics, Management and Policy",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
number = "15",
pages = "279--290",
editor = "Kirstin Hallman and Sheranne Fairley",
booktitle = "Sports Volunteers Around the Globe",
address = "United States",
}