The launch of our UK Voluntary Sector Workforce Almanac 2011, in partnership with Skills - Third Sector and TSRC, comes at a crucial time for the voluntary sector and its employees. Over the last ten years the sector and its workforce have, on the whole, been experiencing a high level of growth, both in terms of money coming into the sector, but linked to this the number of people working within it. These latest findings present a picture of the sector up until the end of 2010 when, whilst the recession had hit the UK economy, the full impact on the voluntary sector was just around the corner.