Ian Scott, of Sports, Insight and Strategy, explains which sports we Brits think we're best at and dives into the factors which affect how people gauge sporting success.
Our blog this week offers 12 pieces of advice on how to avoid the potential pitfalls of rebranding.
This blog explores the role of ethnicity in volunteering and the key motivating factors that encourage engagement from BME groups.
Where do charities stand in relation to growing concerns over climate change? How should charities respond? With media attention increasingly focussed on environmental issues, and public frustration with perceived inaction culminating in grass-roots protests, Peter Dawson explores how the public feel about climate breakdown and the role of charities in tackling it.
Our new report with the People's Postcode Lottery highlights how fundraising limits affect charity lotteries- and ultimately hurt smaller charities. It explores the fundraising environment for small charities, examines charity lottery regulation and its impacts, as well as analysing attitudes toward charity lottery limits among MPs and the general public.
Some key figures:
Trust in Irish charities has been steadily declining since 2013 and this blog explores how to keep your supporter base alive when the sector around you struggles.
You need a new top. You go to a big online retailer, find one you like, and place your order. When it is delivered, you check the quality, the size, and if it makes you look good; if it doesn’t pass these tests, you send it back for a refund. Now you want to make a donation to charity. Unlike when buying a top, you don’t receive anything tangible for your money. You simply have to trust the charity to make a positive impact with your donation.
Drawing from research working with healthcare professionals, here are five things they think about the third sector - and insight into what this means for charities.
ACEVO and nfpSynergy are partnering to provide ACEVO members and nfpSynergy clients with a comprehensive understanding of trust, and how it relates to charities. With this series of reports we hope to give you are a more nuanced understanding of what trust is and why it is important for your charity. In this first report, we will look at how trust in the charity sector has performed over recent years, how the public disclosure of bad practice has affected it (which demographics in particular have seen the biggest falls) and which charities are more likely to be trusted.
What can the UK charity sector learn from third sectors around the world? Joe Saxton distills some key findings from an upcoming new report.