Who volunteers in the UK today, what recent initiatives have achieved, and what good practice looks like for individual charities. Sets out the elements of a strategy for developing volunteering under the new Labour government.

What 'funder plus' support actually does for grantees. Research with grantees and declined applicants of AB Charitable Trust, the Henry Smith Charity and John Ellerman Foundation on the value and limits of support beyond the grant, and whether funders should offer it.

Does the public think charities should get involved in politics? A survey and focus groups with charity supporters, run with the Sheila McKechnie Foundation ahead of the 2024 election, on awareness of charity campaigning, its legitimacy, and how campaign language shapes opinion.

How environmental charities can respond to the rise of direct action groups. Looks at the impact of non-violent civil disobedience on public concern for the climate, and how mainstream environmental charities can engage with a changing landscape rather than compete with it.

Our most downloaded report. What membership means in a digitally connected world, why fewer people are paying members of traditional organisations, an analysis of 25 of the biggest charity membership schemes, and research into why people join.

A guide to campaigning effectively at Westminster, drawing on 20 years of research with MPs. Covers what MPs think of charities and their campaigning, how to approach them and what they expect, the effect of culture-war politics on the sector, and the outlook for charity campaigning.

A second look at charities and the pandemic, eighteen months in. Interviews with nineteen charities and sector experts in May and June 2021 on what changed, what stuck, and their hopes and fears for the years ahead. Follows our 2020 Going Viral report.

Pandemic-era findings set against long-term trends from our surveys of the public, MPs, journalists and primary healthcare professionals. Covers giving and volunteering through Covid, perceptions of charities' role in the crisis, and changing concerns about the economy and environment.

Interviews with leaders across the grant-making sector, commissioned by John Ellerman Foundation in spring 2021. Covers the impact of Covid, funders' role in campaigning, the biggest challenges facing funders and the five-year outlook, with recommendations.

A short review of the evidence on staff surveys and employee engagement in charities. Why to survey staff and volunteers, how to design and run a survey well, and what matters when you analyse and act on the results.

A mini-report on how the pandemic changed charitable giving. Donation levels fell from 69 per cent of the public before Covid to 55 per cent by March 2021, with the sharpest drops among over-35s and in-person giving. Drawn from our public tracking research.

How charities can build trust with a Conservative-dominated parliament. Produced with ACEVO after the 2019 election, it uses our Charity Parliamentary Monitor to show where the relationship is stronger than the headlines suggest and gives practical guidance on engaging Conservative MPs.

An independent review of charity lotteries and gambling-related harm, commissioned by the Lotteries Council. Draws together the evidence to show charity lotteries are low risk, and argues for a harm-proportionate levy and a code of best practice for lottery and scratch-card operators.

How Black, Asian and minority ethnic audiences engage with charities and volunteering, a group the sector rarely researches. Finds higher volunteering rates than the general public, a stronger role for faith in giving decisions and a preference for overseas causes. From our syndicated public research.

How social, economic, cultural and political forces will shape the charity sector over the next 20 years. First published in 2019 and re-released in December 2020 with Covid updates, many of which were already coming true.

How charities responded in the first weeks of Covid. Twenty-four interviews with charity staff, from chief executives to frontline workers, between 27 March and 2 April 2020, on the immediate decisions being made about services, fundraising and staff welfare.

How charities present their finances to the public, and why it matters to donors. Identifies six problems, including figures buried in technical reports, inconsistent fundraising numbers, omitted fundraising costs and the limits of the Charity Commission's website.

What will the charity world look like 20 years from now? Joe Saxton's predictions, drawing on our work with over 150 charities and regular surveys of the public, politicians, donors and journalists, including the decline of direct debits and cash giving and pressure on legacies and older volunteers.