This free report is intended to highlight the most influential PEST factors that all charities should keep in mind when developing their strategies for the coming years. It provides a starting point for charities trying to understand which of the big events happened in recent years are likely to affect their work, beneficiaries and supporters.

We continue tracking the level of trust in the UK charity sector. This report presents the data from 2017 along with the historical data going as far back as 2006.

Thank you everyone for being with us in 2017! The best gift we can give you is what we love doing the most: research. Here are 12 free most popular reports for you this year. See you in 2018!

This free report gives an overview of grant-making trusts, with a specific look at relationships between grant givers and grantees. Discover the role of grants in the UK, and the viewpoint of the grantee in regards to the grant maker and the processes involved.

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We've been tracking trust in charities and other public institutions for over 15 years. Our latest free research gives an update on the current levels of trust.

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This free report gives an overview of the charity landscape in Northern Ireland recently revealed by the introduction of compulsory registration in 2013. 

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We recently held focus groups comprised of donors across a range of ages. They discussed issues including trust in charities and perceptions of our sector. Discover what they thought and how it could impact your charity in this new free report.

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.

Research recently published by a global communications marketing firm seems to contradict the findings from our research last autumn which indicated that trust in charities was at the highest level since 2013. Why the disparity between their research and ours? In this week's blog, Joe Saxton and Hannah Bennett highlight ten things to consider when interpreting statistics on trust in charities and other bodies, with a focus on understanding the UK sector and different factors impacting on the public's trust.