Recession resources
Advice for voluntary and community organisations on surviving the recession.
We've put together a guide for voluntary and community organisations on surviving the recession, from key advice to crisis management.
We're also interested in hearing from you on your organisation's experiences during the recession.
New - Making sense of your environment in a recession
A resource for infrastructure organisations
A recession is an acid test of leadership ability. As NCVO's Ben Kernighan says,
"leaders have to be realists and optimists. A recession is a great test of ability to balance these skills"
Free pack
You can now have a free pack for running a workshop designed to help you support frontline organisations to respond most effectively to the recession. Email Foresight to request the materials, which include handout notes and workshop slides as well as notes for you as the trainer.
By running the training, you will also gain a better understanding of how the world is changing around you and how to use this knowledge to make better strategic decisions .
Download a sample page of the handouts: recession workshop sample handout (pdf, 196kb)
Download a sample page of the workshop: recession workshop sample slide (pdf, 36kb)
Key advice
Advice on surviving the recession for voluntary and community organisations:
- Recession-proof your organisation
- Future financial sustainability
- Strengthen key relationships: collaboration and the economic downturn
- Focus on your mission
- Tighten up financial systems
- Minimise waste
- Resources, case studies and events
Read more: recession-proof your organisation
Beating the credit crunch
What can voluntary and community organisations do in the face of a financial crisis?
- Merging and shared resourcing
- Staff management
- Demonstrating outcomes and impact
- Failure is not an option
- Key Compact principles for the recession
- How to manage volunteers
Government's action
More details on the Government's action during the recession.
Contribute your experiences
If you would like to share your experience of managing your organisation through the recession, please get in touch with us and we would be delighted to publish your story. Email: recession@ncvo-vol.org.uk
Other NCVO work on the recession
Summit on economic crisis, policy and research work, press releases, discounted services.
Read NCVO's work on the recession.
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