Telling stories about impact, talking to supporters, reaching out, collaborating with service users….video can do so much for small charities. And in these strange times anything that can help with online communications has got to be good. But there’s a problem – not many small charities are making the most of video. It’s seen as […]
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Launching UK-CAT
First published 06/07/2021: https://charityclassification.org.uk/blog/2021/10/06/launching-ukcat/ Today we’re launching a new classification of charities in the UK, which aims to help researchers, umbrella bodies and others make sense of the diverse group of organisations that form the voluntary sector. The voluntary sector is defined by shared characteristics – legal form, volunteerism, non-profit distributing – but the sector […]
Place Leadership Revisited – Phil Barton
Partnerships in Environmental Regeneration in North West England 1980 – 2010: a Practitioner Perspective There is no longer any doubt that we are facing climate and ecological catastrophe if we fail to change our ways – and quickly. Scientists are agreed – from IPBES to IPCC , from Sir David Attenborough to Sir David King […]
A UK Charity Classification System
Our aim In our previous blog, we introduced our project to refresh the classification of the national charity registers into ICNPTSO (activity area) categories, using keyword searching, and where possible applying machine learning techniques. To our knowledge, this was last attempted at scale over a decade ago. We also, however, acknowledged some of the challenges […]
Emotions and feelings in voluntary sector work: Explorations from research and practice
Call for papers for the first seminar to be held on 10.30am – 4.00pm, 22nd October 2020 We are grateful for a small grant from the Voluntary Sector Studies Network (VSSN) to organise a series of events we are running from autumn 2020 on the role of emotions and feelings within voluntary sector work: in […]
Guest blog: Researching what matters to charities and donors
Dr Helen Owen, Research Consultant at Giving Evidence, introduces a new search for ‘unanswered questions’ Though both charities and philanthropy are long-established, the academic study of them is nascent but growing rapidly: new centres have been established in various universities in the UK and beyond in recent years. There is therefore an opportunity to ensure […]
What makes for a strong Voluntary Sector Review paper? Eight points to consider
This blog post was originally published on the Policy Press blog on 18 August 2017. Rob Macmillan, Nick Acheson and Bernard Harris, editors of the international Voluntary Sector Review journal, present 8 tips for submitting a strong paper. Rob Macmillan, Nick Acheson and Bernard Harris As editors of Voluntary Sector Review (VSR), we attract a […]
ChangeUp ten years on – where next?
[This blog is by Rob Macmillan, a VSSN Steering Group member. It originally appeared on the VSSN discussion list] What were you up to ten years ago? On 24th June 2004, it was cold, windy and wet over much of the country, Britney Spears was at Number 1 in the charts, and, plus ca change, […]
