Last week Joe Saxton announced that he was selling nfpSynergy to Cian Murphy and Tim Harrison-Byrne. On this week's blog they talk us through their experience at nfpSynergy and future plans for the company.

Last year, we released our ‘Going Viral’ report, exploring the initial response to the Covid-19 outbreak by charities. This is the second year of Covid-19, and it was time to revisit and delve into the experiences of charities in the sector again to take a longer-term perspective on the pandemic and its impact on the sector.

This week we have some big news to share. Joe Saxton has sold nfpSynergy to colleagues Cian Murphy and Tim Harrison-Byrne, and is graduating from Driver of Ideas to Driver of Ideas (emeritus).

We asked 100 MPs in summer 2021 what their political priorities would be over the coming 12 months and how they have changed since summer 2020. Read on to hear what they had to say.

This is the second report in our series looking at trust in society and why it matters.

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.  

With over 20 years since power was devolved to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, it’s a good time to find out how well charities have adapted their structures, strategies and staffing to respond to devolution. Take our quiz and read, about the pros and cons of devolution for your charity.

This week's blog may be a bit of a controversial read for some. Joe Saxton casts a critical lens on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the work of Fundraising Directors, and suggests the role needs an overhaul.

'Do-gooders', so called by Home Secretary Priti Patel, continue to plug the gaps in society left by the inaction of the current government. In this week's guest blog Peter Markham, a correspondent for the Immigration Advice Service, digs a little deeper into this worrying trend and questions what this means for charity in the UK.

This updated PEST report examines how the world might change for charities over the next 20 years because of Covid-19. We have updated our predictions initially published in December 2019.