Our Annual Report - YouthNet

Trustees’ report
ACHIEVEMENTS
AND PERFORMANCE (continued)
TheSite.org (continued)
A key benefit of f online support is the scale of young people p we can reach, yett it is the quality
of support and the actions young people take as a result, which is at the heart of what we do.
During 2011/122 there weree over 1.13m
instances when w young people came
to TheSitee to
access support. YouthNet aims to empower young people with the right support and
information so they feel able to take the right decisions, deal with h the issues they face and feel
less isolated. To
evaluate our impact we
run an online survey with TheSite users to means
the quality of support young people feel they receive from the service.
Young people told us that:
• 81% felt less isolated by visiting TheSite;
• 89% felt more able to take informed decisions as a result of thee information provided;
• 85% felt supported thanks to TheSite;
• 95% took direct actions to improve their situationn as a result of visiting TheSite; and
• 89% felt TheSite improved their ability to cope with w the issuee they faced.
In addition, 96%
of respondents would
use TheSite again and 95% would recommend
TheSite.org).
“Even though I'm
turning 26 tomorrow...you've helped mee from the age of 19....you' re the first place I
come to for just about any problem I have, and have always got something that helps.”
“I've been using
this website since I was 15, nearly 10 years y and I feel like it’s guided me throughh
adulthood and a difficult situations I've had to face going from being a teenager to an adult.”
Do-it.org
In 2011/12 we saw s average monthly visitors to Do-itt increase to 181,139, an increase of 29%
on the previous year and a total of 492, ,958 applications to volunteer made through Do-it.
The
total number of registered volunteers reached 987,282, with 205,797 new volunteers
registering of which 47% were aged 15 to
25 years oldd and 59% under 30.
Do-itime in their local area. Our conservativee estimates would suggest this is over 11million hours
from
those volunteering via Do-it in a year. To putt a value of this contribution to society,
based upon the average hourly wage, we
can estimate that the indicative economic value
of
aims to make it easy for individuals to find thee right opportunity for them and to give
people volunteering through Do-it in
2011 is £94.8 million. With 29% of those
volunteering stating they would not have
done so were it not forr Do-it, we can attribute
an
indicative value of this group’s volunteering at 27.4m.
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