David Kane
David says...
I work on NCVO's Almanac project, and other projects looking at the size and scope of the third sector and civil society. I am also involved in NCVO's Charity Forecast Survey.
I saw some practical examples of something similar to SRoI recently at a lecture at the Natural History Museum - in the field of environmental science. Below is my blog post from the NCVO website about it:
I was lucky enough last night to attend the Natural History Museum's Annual Science Lecture 2009. It was given by Pavan Sukhdev, an economist with the United Nations Environment Programme, and took place in the museum's magnificent Central Hall - complete with...
Trevor - I'm a research officer at NCVO and have had some experience with the indices of multiple deprivation, so may be able to help with your question.
The indices of deprivation are made by combining statistics across seven areas ("domains") including income, crime, employment. These domains are weighted to produce a combined score.
The statistics used are sourced from ONS and are national statistics - so based on large scale surveys of the population and administrative data. This makes it...
Our quarterly charity forecast survey looks at the outlook of charity leaders for the next three months.
You can see some coverage of last month’s results on our delicious page.
Now into its second year, we’re always looking for more participants, so if you’d like to take the survey and add your voice to our panel, then visit www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/takethesurvey to take the survey.
Earlier this month, NCVO released the results of the third quarterly Charity Forecast survey . This survey looks at the opinions of charity leaders – chief executives and trustees – on a variety of topics, particularly looking at finances, staffing, campaigning and other issues in their own organisations and their opinions on wider issues such as the state of the sector and its relationship with government.
For me, the most striking finding is the difference between charity leaders’...
The UK Civil Society Almanac – which has recently been published – might add some insight to this driver.
We looked at social enterprise activity in Civil Society, by looking at trading activity conducted by a wide range of organisations.
As well as social enterprises such as co-operatives, community interest companies, etc, we also included social enterprise activity conducted by charities and universities (amongst others).
This produced a total for social enterprise activity of £77 billion,...
Of course, general charities are just the tip of the iceberg. Lots of other organisational forms make up the sector, including:
- Registered non-general charities
- Co-operatives
- Trade Unions
- Housing associations
- Faith groups
(Estimates of the size of these groups vary wildly!)
