This week's blog focuses on the results of our latest wave of research into the impact of Covid-19 on the charity sector. We highlight the changing public perceptions of the crisis as well as looking at the government and charity response, drawing out key conclusions about what this could mean for the sector.

We conducted 24 telephone interviews with charities in the last week to find out what life is like for them and their organisations at this time. Find out what they told us.

To find out how charities are responding to the first phase of the Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak, we conducted twenty-four interviews speaking to a range of charity sector staff from CEOs, directors, heads and officers working in strategy, fundraising, marketing and communications, and some front-line staff working on service provision. See what they had to say in this free report.

Our Head of Public Audiences has prepared some research-led suggestions for how charities can tap into the public's desire to help in their communities and beyond during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Going viral – our new research shows the public think charities are vital at the moment.

In this week's blog we tackle the important question of our emotional responses to the climate crisis and the differences in response according to gender.

Conversations about charity expenditure often lack the nuance and detail required to make fair assessments about the performances of different charities. How can we change this?

What does the reaction to the green movement reveal about the relationship between charities and the state? 

Joe Saxton gazes into his crystal ball and makes a few predictions about what the charity sector will look like in 20 years. Do you agree with his visions?

Some campaigning teams may dream of mobilising the kind of action and support we've seen for the Extinction Rebellion movement; but what is a movement, and how can campaigning charities hope to start one? Can the loose limbed and disruptive nature of movements fit in with the strictures of traditional charity models?