2020 has been a year of ups, downs, twists, turns and u-turns. In this week's blog, Joe Saxton reflects on an unprecedented year within the charity sector discussing the successes and failures that have characterised 2020. 

Our blog this week explores the challenges charities may be experiencing trying to plan ahead for next year (and beyond!), and highlights what we feel you can plan for, based on our Charity Awareness Monitor research.

In this week's blog, Research Assistant Max Roche delves into some of our Charity Parliamentary Monitor research with MPs to investigate the relationship between charities, government, and celebrities.

In our blog this week, we're starting a conversation about how the Covid-19 pandemic may affect the public's attitudes towards science, scientists and science policy and, in turn, medical/health charities whose work relies on scientific research.

In our blog this week, we're highlighting some worrying findings from our research with the UK general public. Only 54% of the public report having given in last 3 months, and 28% say they’ve given less in last 12 months than previous years; we've never seen so many people say they have given less. It's not all doom and gloom though; read the blog to find out why.

Our Charity Brand Evaluator (CBE) is a biannual survey dedicated exclusively to charity brands. In this week's blog, we highlight some key findings from the latest wave of research.

Different groups have suffered in different ways from the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting disruption to our daily lives. Our blog this week looks at the mental health impacts of the pandemic on 16 - 34 year olds in particular.

In this week's blog, Simona Battipaglia looks at the state of the international development sector and public attitudes towards it, highlighting why this is a decisive time for international development charities.

This week's blog highlights the importance of making LGBT+ voices heard and the fact that this audience remains largely under-researched in the charity sector. It also analyses our LGBT+ research and what an ideal LGBT+ charity would look like.

This week's blog analyses the results from our fourth wave of research with the general public on the Coronavirus and charities. We analyse the change in public attitudes, including issues of concern, trust in sources of information and willingness to support charities.