Rewriting the Rules Report. Social Enterprise in Glasgow: The Covid-19 Response (March 2021)
This report highlights the challenges faced – and, importantly, recognises the contribution made by Glasgow's social enterprise community in addressing these challenges – both over the last twelve months – and also as we look ahead. The report was put together with the full parti… Read more
Supporting Scottish Communities During Covid-19. (December 2020)
CRNS have published their impact report on supporting Scottish communities during Covid-19. The report covers: Beyond Covid-19 – 2020 has been a tremendously difficult year for the community resources sector. Many organisations stopped trading overnight at the start of lo… Read more
North Ayrshire: A case study on Kindness. (September 2020)
In 2018, the Carnegie UK Trust was invited to work in partnership with North Ayrshire Council, to explore what it would mean to embed kindness across a local authority, and what that might achieve. This report tells the story of that two-year journey. This ‘case study on kindn… Read more
Social Enterprise Reset Week: Impact Report.
This report from SenScot captures the outcomes from events that took place during SE Reset Week (w/c May 11th). Senscot hosted a series of conversations with community-based social enterprises to determine their support and resource requirements over the medium to longer-term.… Read more
COVID-19 and the impact on Social Enterprise in Scotland
The data in this report has been drawn from a variety of sources: our own experience, members' feedback from individual phone calls, data collated regarding emergency fund applications, the 2019 Census and survey information collected by others. Part one – Sector analysis a.… Read more
The Road Ahead 2020
NCVO report on the forces and trends that will affect charities in 2020. The report was developed using a PEST analysis to highlight the key drivers shaping the sector in four areas: political, economic, social and technological. Key topics - Brexit - uncertain economy… Read more
DCMS Sectors Economic Estimates 2017 (provisional): Gross Value Added
This release provides estimates of the contribution of DCMS Sectors to the UK economy, measured by gross value added (GVA). This includes an estimate of the CIVIL SOCIETY sector. [see also: the NCVO Almanac for an estimate of the economic contribution of the voluntary sector:… Read more
Social Enterprise in Glasgow (2013)
Public Sector Funding Briefing (2015)
Briefing on public sector income sources coming into the third sector, based on the detailed analysis of a selected sample of 800 charity accounts and reports for the financial year 2012-13. Key findings Cuts to public sector budgets have started to have a real impact on th… Read more
Big Local / Local Trust library
The Big Local library includes success stories, research and evaluation, how to guides, blogs and other insights and learning developed throughout the programme. About Local Trust and Big Local Local Trust’s mission is to enable residents to make their communities and their… Read more