Archive for the 'Survey' Category

Latest survey on UK giving.

In an a report published by the Cabinet Office today – and carried out for them by Volunteering England – it has been found that 81% of respondents had given to charity in the last four weeks. This is fantastic news and I hope it is a fair reflection of reality (I cant help but […]

Online failures.

As reported in this week’s Third Sector Magazine, iConcertina and e-consultancy’s latest Website Benchmark Report on the accessibility of charities’ online offerings, makes depressing reading. For an interview about the results we found I said:
“The fact that no single site met all the criteria is worrying. If individuals feel that a site isn’t designed […]

Opinion sought

Earlier this week the Government launched a survey to collect the views of smaller charities on the Gift Aid scheme, and how uptake could be improved. You can take the survey here – the more voices that are heard the better. The Government are trying to give us this money….the least we can do is […]

Third sector survey

Third Sector has teamed up with nfpSynergy to run a survey entitled State of the Third Sector 2007. If you can understand it all (!?) and have time to plough through it, there are some prizes up for grabs!

On-line usability

Lack of usability can kill off the philanthropic spirit. I have moaned about this on two occasions - once regarding accessibility and once complaining about broken links. A much needed survey conducted by Iconcertina did a benchmark study of 110 UK Charity Websites comparing how these organisations engage with donors, volunteers and other stakeholders in […]

Gift-Aid Survey Closed: Winners announced

Thank you to all who responded to our informal gift-aid survey.
The results will be published on Wednesday afternoon this week so please return for these. We had a total of 488 respondents and we achieved a good mix of gender, age, tax brackets and occupations. Some answers yielded no suprise but others clearly expose the […]