This blog explores the role of ethnicity in volunteering and the key motivating factors that encourage engagement from BME groups.

Some small local charities make a huge impact on people's lives. This week's blog covers a story about a creation and development of such charity, written by its founder.

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!

Commission on Social Mobility has just published a report calling for unpaid internships to be banned. Joe Saxton offers a strong alternative view and raises important questions on the topic.

At nfpSynergy, we've been tracking the proportion of the UK public that volunteer for over ten years. This report gives an overview of volunteering over time from as far back as 2003 up until August 2017.

Here are some of our key findings:

There has been a lot of focus in recent years on getting young people into volunteering, with less emphasis on encouraging volunteering among older age groups, despite the valuable skills this group has to offer. How can we change this?

Following a stint of bucket collecting for Plan International UK at Liverpool Street Station, our MD categorised the different types of people we encountered throughout the day. Discover the traits of 'the passionate one', the two different types of 'apologists', and everyone in-between in this week's comical blog!

The time has come again to reflect on the last 12 months and thank our clients and partners for inspiring us to keep researching topical issues in the sector with 12 free reports.