5 August 2020

Are young people replacing older people as the key volunteering group?

Volunteers have proved how crucial they are for the charity sector, and for society more broadly, during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this week's blog, Max Roche contextualises some recent changes in volunteering patterns within some longitudinal trends.

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Facts and Figures

General research

Volunteering

Young people

9 July 2020

Charities need great CEOs: so do we need a more nuanced debate around charity CEO salaries?

In this week's blog, Max Roche looks at some potential methods of quantifying charity CEO earnings beyond our fixation with the number of zeros at the end of the salary.

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25 June 2020

New research: understanding the perspectives of the UK LGBT+ population on their engagement with the Third Sector

This week's blog highlights the importance of making LGBT+ voices heard through research and analyses LGBT+ audiences' perspectives on what an ideal LGBT+ charity would look like.

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9 April 2020

Results from the latest wave of our public research on the pandemic and its impact on charities

This week's blog focuses on the results of our latest wave of research into the impact of Covid-19 on the charity sector. We highlight the changing public perceptions of the crisis as well as looking at the government and charity response, drawing out key conclusions about what this could mean for the sector.

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General research

Politicians

Public Attitudes

6 April 2020

Going Viral | Covid-19: How have charities responded to the first phase of the crisis?

To find out how charities are responding to the first phase of the Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak, we conducted twenty-four interviews speaking to a range of charity sector staff from CEOs and directors to fundraising, marketing and communications professionals.

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18 December 2019

Generation Game: How might the charity world have changed in 20 years?

What will the world look like for charities 20 years from now? Joe Saxton shares some predictions.

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18 December 2019

20 predictions for the future – how might the charity world have changed in 20 years?

What will world the world look like for charities 20 years from now? Joe Saxton shares some of his predictions for how the third sector might grow and change - for better or for worse - in the years to come.

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27 November 2019

How successful have charities been over the last few decades?

A look back at our Past Imperfect free report: What can key statistics tell us about the impact of charities on their causes over the last few decades and how can charities build a strategy around this.

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General research

Social Investment

17 October 2019

Give and Take: why is it so hard to measure public giving in the UK?

In this weeks blog Joe Saxton looks into why there's so much conflicting research about giving trends. It highlights the market research challenges in measuring giving from our new free report that looks at this issue in-depth and unpacks how some surveys can claim that Millennials give the most to charities whilst others claim its Baby Boomers.

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12 September 2019

Child's Play: What has happened to children's charities over the last decade?

The last 5-10 years has seen a significant decline in the popularity of children's charities across the UK. This report reveals the declining levels of voluntary income experienced by these charities along with a slide in awareness and attitudes amongst the public and politicians alike.

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30 May 2019

Do you have a healthy audience?

Key findings from our a healthy audience report May 2019

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30 May 2019

A Healthy Audience

This report looks at the relationship between the number of people with a particular medical condition or disability, and the size of the largest charity supporting those affected, amongst other things.

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