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.
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...
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!)
