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The Citizen Forum, which is an umbrella organisation of more than 140 organizations and a social influencer for volunteer activities, has published an online statement (11.4.2024) signed by more than 260 third sector organisations from all over the country. The statement is titled as ‘Volunteering worth more than 3 billion  is under the cuts’ (available in Finnish). As those organisations say, ‘the savings the government has planned related to the funding for third sector organisations put the organisations at risk of totally close down, and as consequence, along with it, the volunteer work that benefits  the wellbeing of citizens and promotes democracy.