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Kimi K3.1 Pro: Why Riverside Food Network is losing volunteers
The decision: how to spend next year's £45,000 for volunteer support: reimburse volunteers' travel costs, fund a part-time volunteer coordinator with online shift booking, or do both at a smaller scale. The brief and the data →
- Verdict
- ✗ Not sound
- Research score
- 24 of 100
- Analysis rating
- 608
- Head to head, this task
- won 0 of 6
Why it is not sound
The survey
- Answer bands that overlap or leave gaps
The analysis
- Produced no usable analysis
Scorecard
The analysis
This model produced no usable analysis for this task.
The survey it planned
1 screening question and 10 questions, as the model wrote them.
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S1
When did you last do a volunteer shift with Riverside Food Network?
One answer- Within the last 3 months
- More than 3 months ago, but within the last 12 months
- More than 12 months ago
- I have never done a volunteer shift with Riverside Food Network
Continues if Within the last 3 months; More than 3 months ago, but within the last 12 months
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Q1
Which Riverside distribution site did you volunteer at most often during the last 12 months? Please type its name, street or area. If you volunteered at several sites equally, name the one where you volunteered most recently.
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Q2
Which age group are you in?
One answer- Under 25
- 25 to 44
- 45 to 64
- 65 or over
- Prefer not to say
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Q3
You said your last Riverside shift was more than 3 months ago. In a sentence or two, what are the main reasons you have not done a shift in the last 3 months? Please include anything in your own life and anything about volunteering at Riverside that played a part. If this is only a temporary break, please say so.
Open textRouting Shown only if S1 is: More than 3 months ago, but within the last 12 months
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Q4
Thinking about your experience of Riverside volunteering during the last 12 months, which, if any, of these made it difficult for you to take shifts? Select all that apply, whether or not you still volunteer.
Any that apply- My paid work, education or training commitments
- My caring or family responsibilities
- My health, disability or energy levels
- The days or times when shifts were available
- Not hearing about suitable shifts in time to book them
- Having to book or swap shifts by phoning or messaging my site lead
- Not knowing whether my booking or swap had been confirmed
- The time or difficulty of travelling to the site
- The cost of public transport to and from the site
- The cost of driving or parking to get to the site
- Not feeling welcome, supported or trained well enough
- The physical or emotional demands of the work
- Last-minute rota changes or not knowing whether I was needed
- Another difficulty
- None of these
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Q5
Thinking about a typical return journey to your main Riverside site during the last 12 months, how much did you usually pay out of your own pocket for travel and parking in total, for one shift? Enter your best estimate in pounds and pence, using numbers only, for example 4.80. Enter 0 if you paid nothing or were fully reimbursed.
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Q6
On a scale of 1 to 5, how much did these out-of-pocket travel and parking costs limit your Riverside volunteering during the last 12 months?
ScaleScale 1-5: 1 - Did not limit it at all to 5 - Limited it a great deal
Judges: assumptiveQ6 is shown to everyone, including people who entered 0 at Q5. Its wording ('these out-of-pocket travel and parking costs') presumes they had costs. There is no display logic to skip respondents who paid nothing or were fully reimbursed.
There is no display logic to hide this question from respondents who answered 0 in Q5, so it assumes the respondent had out-of-pocket costs when they may not have.
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Q7
If things stay as they are at Riverside, how likely are you to do at least one Riverside volunteer shift in the next 3 months?
ScaleScale 1-5: 1 - Very unlikely to 5 - Very likely
Routing Shown only if S1 is: More than 3 months ago, but within the last 12 months
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Q8
Now imagine that Riverside has a part-time volunteer coordinator and you can see available shifts, book them and request swaps online, with help available if you need it. If nothing else changes, how likely are you to do at least one Riverside volunteer shift in the next 3 months?
ScaleScale 1-5: 1 - Very unlikely to 5 - Very likely
Routing Shown only if S1 is: More than 3 months ago, but within the last 12 months
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Q9
Now imagine that Riverside repays your actual public transport fares and parking fees for journeys to and from volunteer shifts. If nothing else changes, how likely are you to do at least one Riverside volunteer shift in the next 3 months?
ScaleScale 1-5: 1 - Very unlikely to 5 - Very likely
Routing Shown only if S1 is: More than 3 months ago, but within the last 12 months
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Q10
Which statement comes closest to what would actually make a difference to you returning for at least one Riverside shift? Choose the closest answer, even if you would like other changes too.
One answer- Online booking and a part-time coordinator would be enough on their own
- Repayment of my public transport fares and parking fees would be enough on its own
- Either change would help me, and I have no preference between them
- I would need both changes together before I would return
- Neither change would bring me back, but another change might
- I already expect to return without either change
- Nothing would persuade me to return
Routing Shown only if S1 is: More than 3 months ago, but within the last 12 months
Sample plan
Deduplicate the database and send a unique survey link by email and text message to every eligible record: approximately 1,410 people, comprising 410 active volunteers and about 1,000 people with no shift in the last 3 months. Use a neutral invitation about improving volunteer support, without mentioning travel reimbursement, and send up to two reminders targeted at under-represented site and status groups. Target 330 eligible completes after S1, defining active as a shift within the last 3 months and lapsed as a last shift more than 3 months ago but within the last 12 months. Use soft quotas by site and status, aiming for about 100 active and 230 lapsed completes with approximately proportional site coverage within each status. Monitor small sites, avoid letting easier-to-reach active volunteers crowd out lapsed volunteers, and weight back to known database site and status totals where cell sizes permit; always report unweighted bases. The requested site precision cannot be guaranteed from 330 completes. At worst-case p=50%, simple random sampling requires about 196 responses per site for ±7 percentage points at 95% confidence, approximately 1,764 across nine sites before any finite-population correction. An equal split of 330 gives only about 37 responses per site and approximately ±16 points before weighting. Obtain actual site population sizes and recalculate any finite-population corrections, but do not present weighting or quotas as a solution. Before launch, trustees must either secure sufficient site-level response or agree to relax the requirement. With 330, overall percentages have an indicative margin of about ±5.4 points before weighting; site results should otherwise be treated as descriptive. Because participation is voluntary, confidence intervals remain indicative even after weighting and cannot rule out nonresponse bias.