Future of the voluntary sector, innit!

1. Here comes the flood?
The changing landscape for charities and
voluntary organisations
Karl Wilding
NCVO
#InvolveAPC
@karlwilding

3. The current environment

5. 47%
44% 42%
26% 25% 23% 23% 21%
16% 16%
Most important Gov’t priorities in deciding who to vote for
at GE2015
Q. Below is a list of priorities for a potential Government to have, please select the three which you would consider most important when deciding
who to vote for at a General Election? Base: adults in marginal constituencies (n=1,038) Source: ComRes

6. Voluntary sector income/expenditure
Source: NCVO/TSRC, Charity Commission

7. Sources of income
Income sources
2000 – 2012
(£ billions, real
terms)

8. Volunteering
Proportion of
people formally
volunteering,
2001 – 2012/13
(% of
respondents)

9. Where next?

12. 12
Barnet: The graph of doom

18. New ways to give, borrow, share… #crowdfunding

20. Source: Nat Cen, Guardian

22. 22

27. The State
(Public Agencies)
The Market
(Private Firms)
The Community
(Households,
Families)
Public
Private
Voluntary
Sector
Source: Evers & Laville, 2004

32. Here comes the flood?

33. What will the voluntary sector look
like in the future?

34. Provocations: Future of the sector?
• Voluntary ‘sector’ growth
• From fundraising to resource raising
• Social action: wider, shallower, stronger
• Millennials (politicians?) are sector agnostic
• Digital disruption, innovation
• Public trust

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