Charity forecast survey

Our key Charity Forecaset reports provides a snapshot of charity leaders' opinions of the sector and is available for free to all NCVO non-corporate members.

Produced quarterly, the report will allow you to see how confidence is changing in the sector over time. Find out what leaders in the sector are planning for their organisation with regards to service delivery and staffing levels.

Charity Forecast 16

The findings are in for the fourth quarter of 2011

This is the 16th edition of NCVO Foresight's quarterly survey of NCVO member charity sector leaders. It is based on a snapshot survey which ran from 7 November to 2 December 2011.

Quarter's report (published December 2011) shows that charity leaders....

• Increasingly report that the financial situation of their organisation has worsened over the last year.
• Increasingly expect both their organisation's general and financial situation to worsen over the next 12 months.
• Increasingly expect their organisation to decrease expenditure over the next 12 months, although over a third still expect to increase expenditure.
• Report a very slight increase in net confidence in economic conditions in the sector, though at minus 94% this is close to the lowest level since the survey began in May 2008.

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NCVO's Charity Forecast: a quarterly survey of sector leaders

What is a Confidence/Trends Survey?

A confidence/trends survey questions sector leaders on current trends and future expectations. Survey results are used to make predictions about changes within the sector ranging from economic issues to changes in staffing or volunteering levels.

NCVO's Charity Forecast Survey canvasses sector leaders quarterly to determine how optimistic they feel about the sector and what development plans they have for the coming quarter.

Charity Forecast Report

Charity Forecast uses questions from the survey on development plans to provide sector leaders with up-to-date information on what their colleagues are planning in terms of expenditure, staffing and service development.

The survey data also shows trends in collaboration and competition and how charity leaders feel about their funding situations and the economy.

The Charity Forecast Survey was first run in early 2008 and has since been run quarterly. To request previous editions, please contact NCVO's publishing team.