We published a free report last week to try and make charity benchmarking a little easier. Our blog this week explores some of the main findings of the report, how we put it together, and details how some of our perceptions on the charity sector changed as a result of the research.
We are pleased to publish this analysis of different types of charities, based on their differing incomes and expenditures. Our archetype will allow charities, donors, and others to understand what the benchmark is for each type of charity, thus ensuring that judgements are made based on norms of income and expenditure for similar charities.
The time has come again to reflect on the last 12 months and thank our clients and partners for inspiring us to keep researching topical issues in the sector with 12 free reports.
The success of online shopping cannot be contested - a fifth of all non-food items and over a quarter of all clothes are sold online in the UK, and the worth of our e-commerce market has increased significantly every year since 2014. This week's blog asks - where do charities come in to this, and what can they learn from online retailers? Is the future of charity shopping online?
We’re constantly developing and refining the research methods we use in order to continue to deliver high quality insight for charities. We piloted the use of online communities for market research in the not-for-profit sector in 2015; see what we discovered.
How often do we think of economics as a tool that can help solve every day social problems? Not that much I guess. Yet, economics is about almost everything that people do. And sometimes we can see elegant solutions to very complex social problems that affect ordinary people in their everyday lives that were designed by economists.
I’d like to share a story of how economists designed a whole new market for one hunger-relief charity and united those on the left and the right politically on the way.
The charity sector has had 12 months unlike any other it has ever seen. We have been under the spotlight in the eyes of the media, public and politicians more than ever before, and rarely for the right reasons. The response of the sector has been varied, and largely ineffective.
We would like to thank our clients and partners for inspiring us to keep researching the topical issues in the sector. As part of our Social Investment programme we regularly produce Free Reports and feed our finding back to the sector so any charity regardless its size or sector can find something useful. Here are the 12 popular reports this year.
There is little doubt that digital technology has transformed the lives of people in the UK. Alongside the digital giants such as Google and Yahoo who exist purely because of the digital world, startups like Uber or WhatsApp have incorporated technology into their business models and now thrive. Online shopping and banking is getting more comfortable than offline experience with these industries. Even government has got the digital bug, with the vast majority of government services now available via the gov.uk website.
Joe Saxton looks at what the coming decade looks like for charities