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.

"Why would you get involved with our bureaucratic funder in order to fund your social action or your change?”
This question was asked by a participant in our Spring 2021 research with leaders in the grantmaking sector. It introduces our blog for this week, which summarises what this audience perceive as the biggest challenges currently facing this sector, and their outlook on the future.

Has pride month become a branded holiday for UK companies and organisations to commercialise awareness instead of taking real action to support the LGBT+ community? This week's blog reflects on the real meaning of pride, how brands use their colours and provides tips to charity brands that want to support the movement.

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. 

Our blog this week shares some of what we've learned from our research with Minority Ethnic and LGBT+ audiences since we started polling these groups on behalf of charities in 2019.

This week's blog takes a look at the different approaches that environmental charities take when communicating with the public about the urgency of climate change. 

We've published a mini-report sharing our data on the way that the pandemic has affected charity donation patterns.

The events of the past year have brought mental health to the forefront of national conversation. This week's blog shares some of our research around mental health, and speculates on what the future of mental health causes might look like in the UK.

Our blog this week from Co Managing Director Cian Murphy asks - what has gone wrong for overseas charities? While it would be easy to simply say that Britain is becoming more insular, the blog explores why the story is more nuanced than that. We include three simple suggestions to help charities working in this area on their journey.

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.