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 week's blog summarises 10 key findings from our 'Hidden But Vital: Charities and the Pandemic' report, just in case you're short on time. 

Since it's been a prominent and reoccurring theme in the media, nfpSynergy were interested in exploring MPs’ attitudes towards charities beginning to acknowledge and address institutional and structural racism. Tapinder draws on evidence from recent events and telling data from our research which shows Conservative MPs are far less receptive to these charity actions. She touches on why this may be and what charities can expect.

In this week’s blog we look into some of the key findings from our latest wave of research with MPs around Covid-19 and what MPs think the charity sector should be prioritising going forward.

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. 

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

The way that charities communicate with MP's has evolved significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic. Are we now moving into an all-digital era of communication?

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.  

'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.

The divergent pathways taken by governments across the United Kingdom towards the handling of the pandemic has illustrated the increased strength and identity of the devolved nations. This week Peter Dawson reflects on the implications of this divergence on the charity sector and asks how charities can adapt to an increasingly parochial public sphere.