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Why the London 2012 Olympics had limited impact on volunteering across the UK
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. When London was preparing to host the 2012 Olympic Games, 250,000 people signed up to volunteer as official “Games Makers”. Of these, 70,000 people were ultimately selected to wear the distinctive purple-and-red volunteer uniforms. For 40% of them,…