Since it's been a prominent and reoccurring theme in the media, nfpSynergy were interested in exploring MPs’ attitudes towards charities beginning to acknowledge and address institutional and structural racism. Tapinder draws on evidence from recent events and telling data from our research which shows Conservative MPs are far less receptive to these charity actions. She touches on why this may be and what charities can expect.

This week's blog takes a look at the different approaches that environmental charities take when communicating with the public about the urgency of climate change. 

Our blog this week from Co Managing Director Cian Murphy asks - what has gone wrong for overseas charities? While it would be easy to simply say that Britain is becoming more insular, the blog explores why the story is more nuanced than that. We include three simple suggestions to help charities working in this area on their journey.

Our blog this week explores the challenges charities may be experiencing trying to plan ahead for next year (and beyond!), and highlights what we feel you can plan for, based on our Charity Awareness Monitor research.

This week's blog highlights the importance of making LGBT+ voices heard and the fact that this audience remains largely under-researched in the charity sector. It also analyses our LGBT+ research and what an ideal LGBT+ charity would look like.

This week's blog analyses the results from our fourth wave of research with the general public on the Coronavirus and charities. We analyse the change in public attitudes, including issues of concern, trust in sources of information and willingness to support charities.

With the process of devolution ever-evolving in a post-Brexit, pandemic-hit world, now has never been a better time for charities to engage at the devolved level.

We conducted 24 telephone interviews with charities in the last week to find out what life is like for them and their organisations at this time. Find out what they told us.

In this week's blog we tackle the important question of our emotional responses to the climate crisis and the differences in response according to gender.

Joe Saxton gazes into his crystal ball and makes a few predictions about what the charity sector will look like in 20 years. Do you agree with his visions?