Third Sector Research Centre - Below the Radar (BtR) The Third Sector Research Centre works to enhance knowledge through independent and critical research. In collaboration with practitioners, policy makers, and other academics, we explore the key issues affecting charities and voluntary organisations, community groups, social enterprises, cooperatives and mutuals. News The future of TSRC TSRC's bid to renew our core funding from the ESRC Large Centres and Grants competition has been unsuccessful. Read more... Spotlight Unfolding tales of voluntary action What is the full story of third sector activity in communities struggling to manage tough economic and social challenges?
This new monthly series will explore these issues and more, from the unique vantage point of TSRC's 'Real Times' project. Innovation in Giving Fund. Why are we doing this? Millions of people in the UK give significant amounts of time and resources to help others. Unfortunately, the number of these people is declining. Over the past 12 months, household giving has plummeted by 30 per cent. Charities and volunteer groups are working with scarce resources and are finding it increasingly hard to attract support and funding. Despite this, there is a huge amount of creativity and innovation being focused on how to increase giving, driven in part by the imaginative use of digital technologies and the reinvention of ideas of sharing and reciprocity.
Giving helps to build communities and lessens the impact of some of society’s biggest problems. What are we doing? Through a £10m fund from the Cabinet Office, Nesta has been working on ways to increase the numbers of people who give. Here’s a look at what this means in practice: Volunteering (The University of Manchester) Dataset #4: ICNPO Classification of charities | NCVO UK Civil Society Almanac. NCVO has classified organisations into categories, based on the International Classification of Non-profit Organisations.
All registered charities in England and Wales (based on the Charity Commission Register of Charities) are included. Data Creator: National Council for Voluntary Organisations Website: NCVO blog post Alternatives: Charity Commission classification systemOther ad-hoc classifications Description: NCVO has classified organisations into categories, based on the International Classification of Non-profit Organisations. NCVO undertook this piece of work about 2 years ago, in order to better understand the nature of the voluntary sector. Organisations were classified into the International Classification of Nonprofit Organisations [pdf] (ICNPO). The ICNPO is not a perfect fit for the UK VCS – a few categories for large groups of organisations (such as scout groups and nurseries) were added.
Accessing the data: The data can be found on Google Fusion Tables. Useful links: