Has pride month become a branded holiday for UK companies and organisations to commercialise awareness instead of taking real action to support the LGBT+ community? This week's blog reflects on the real meaning of pride, how brands use their colours and provides tips to charity brands that want to support the movement.

This week, we discuss charities that have tailored their messaging to appeal to issues that are high on the political agenda to effectively capture the attention of politicians within the devolved nations. 

Our blog this week shares some of what we've learned from our research with Minority Ethnic and LGBT+ audiences since we started polling these groups on behalf of charities in 2019.

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. 

We've published a mini-report sharing our data on the way that the pandemic has affected charity donation patterns.

The events of the past year have brought mental health to the forefront of national conversation. This week's blog shares some of our research around mental health, and speculates on what the future of mental health causes might look like in the UK.

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.

In this week’s blog, Tapinder Sidhu shares how, through our 2020 Charity Parliamentary Monitor and 2020 Wales, Scotland and NI Charity Parliamentary Monitor, we discovered the Black Lives Matter campaign was one of the most divisive of any campaign or movement we have tested in our research in recent years (particularly in Westminster). Tapinder also discusses warmer support and receptiveness to BLM in Scotland and Wales and what this could mean for charities.  

We've released two reports looking at all things to do with charity lotteries. In this blog, we summarise some key findings from this research, undertaken on behalf of the Lotteries Council.

There has been considerable change in the lottery sector over the last decade, with various reforms to the sector and strong growth among large Charity Lotteries. Whilst seeing strong overall growth, the National Lottery has seen some dips in its sales and returns made to good causes. Various consultations and inquiries have discussed potential explanations for this, including, changes in the mechanisms of ticket prices, the odds of winning, and the possibility that competition from Charity Lotteries may be a threat to the National Lottery.