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1 December 2021

Trustee Recruitment Websites – Could they be more straightforward?

In this week's blog, Joe Saxton shares his experience of using a number of Trustee recruitment sites to try and find a new Trustee role.

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Governance

Joe's Bit and Blogs

Services

Volunteering

30 June 2021

Why survey (charity) staff? A brief review of research on employee surveys

Our report on charity staff surveys reviews research on how to measure staff engagement and why it's so important. We also make some evidence-based recommendations.

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30 June 2021

Getting it right: why researching charity staff matters

This blog follows our report which asks - 'Why survey (charity) staff?'. We highlight why, in the wake of reports on toxic work cultures and #NotJustNCVO, understanding (and acting on) the views and experiences of charity staff and volunteers is so important.

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10 February 2021

Minority Ethnic Groups and the Charity Sector – what has the Covid-19 Pandemic Shown Us?

Our blog this week explores the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on minority ethnic communities and grassroots organisations.

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10 February 2021

How do minority ethnic audiences engage with charities?

It is well known that Black, Asian and other ethnic minority communities are largely under-researched in the charity sector (and beyond). Our report explores how these communities engage with charities.

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10 December 2020

The ‘V’ rate - Six ways the pandemic has shaped volunteering

The pandemic has affected most parts of the charity sector, and volunteering is no exception. In this week's blog Max Roche looks at six defining trends of the pandemic with regard to volunteering and examines the differences across age and gender.

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Facts and Figures

Social Trends

Volunteering

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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10 June 2020

Researching minority communities is a key precursor to change

In recent days and weeks, we have all been witness to a huge moment in the fight against racial inequality across the world. In the charity sector, questions are now being confronted as to how we better reflect the societies that we live and work in.

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Public Attitudes

Social Trends

Volunteering

4 June 2020

Trustees now need to be professional volunteers. Is that a good thing?

Five good practice goals to recruit and appraise charity trustees.

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20 May 2020

Eight opportunities that the Coronavirus crisis reveals for the charity sector

After discussing the eight flaws that the Coronavirus crisis revealed about the charity sector in his last week's blog, Joe takes a deeper look into the potential opportunities it generated and discusses the ways in which charities could make the most of those changes.

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14 May 2020

Eight flaws that the Coronavirus crisis reveals about the charity sector

The Coronavirus crisis has intensified and shed light on the weaknesses of the charity sector. This week's blog explores these shortcomings.

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16 April 2020

New research: the UK’s BAME population is likely to be at the heart of the coronavirus volunteer response

The blog explores the findings from our latest research with 1,000 members of Britain's Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) population. It discusses the ways this audience engages with charities through volunteering, fundraising and their trust in institutions, and compares those to some of the general public trends.

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Joe's Bit and Blogs

Public Attitudes

Volunteering