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Introducing the voluntary sector
Introducing the voluntary sector

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Table 1: adapted from: NCVO (2015b) How Big is a Typical Voluntary Organisation? [Online]. Available at http://data.ncvo.org.uk/  a/  almanac14/  how-big-is-a-typical-voluntary-organisation.

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