Future Focus publications
"Congratulations on your excellent publication ‘Future Focus 1’, which communicated a potentially complex subject with impressive clarity."
Future Focus is a series of introductory pocket guides to help organisations understand important trends that may impact on them in the future.
They are aimed at small and medium sized VCOs, but should provide a useful analysis for all VCOs interested in their external environment.
There are seven guides within this series:
with an eighth to come soon.
They look different!
We've been working hard, revisiting and revising our Future Focus booklets so that they're even easier and more practical to use. But don't worry, they still contain great information and tips.
If you would like to be kept informed about future issues of Future Focus, or if you've got any suggestions or feedback please email us.
Do you support frontline organisations? Then you might be interested in our Future Focus bulk offer.
Future Focus 1
What will our funding be like in 5 years time?
Published: May 2007
What does Future Focus 1 look at?
- Increased expectation of trading and charging for services
- Increasing complexity - contracts and loans
- Strategic and engaged grantmaking
- Stronger expectations of evidence
- The importance of cost and value
- Competition for funds
Download Future Focus 1 (PDF 2.55 MB)
Future Focus 2
What will our volunteers be like in five years time?
Published: August 2007
What does Future Focus 2 look at?
- More 'professional' volunteering
- The ageing population
- Time poor society
- Weaker ties to geographical communities
- 'Consumer culture'
- Changing ideas about volunteering
Download Future Focus 2 (PDF 1.78 Mb)
Future Focus 3
How will we use new technologies in five years time?
Published: December 2007
What does Future Focus 3 look at?
- The wealth of information and choice
- Increasing ease of making new connections
- New ways to engage people
- Lower barriers to publishing and broadcasting
- Ability to work flexibly
Download Future Focus 3 (PDF 669 Kb)
Future Focus 4
How is local democracy changing?
Published: March 2008
What does Future Focus 4 look at?
- Devolution of power
- National minimum standards
- Consolidation of public sevice contracts
- Complexity of governance structures
- More citizen engagement
- Changing nature of community leadership
Download Future Focus 4 (PDF 1.1 Mb)
Future Focus 5
How are social attitudes changing?
Published: April 2008
What does Future Focus 5 look at?
- Poverty and the welfare state
- Class and socio-economic status
- Ethnicity
- Personal identity
- Different generations
- Gender and family structures
Download Future Focus 5 (PDF 1.4 Mb)
Future Focus 6
What will the UK population be like in 5 years' time?
Published: May 2009
What does Future Focus 6 look at?
- The ageing population
- More diverse family and household structures
- Increasing cultural and ethnic diversity
- Rising levels of poverty and income inequality
- Changes to work and employment
- Levels of skills and educational attainment
Download Future Focus 6 (PDF 2.64 Mb)
Future Focus 7
What will campaigning be like in 5 years' time?
Published: December 2009
What does Future Focus 7 look at?
- Growth of consumer activism
- More fluid activism
- Growth of new technologies
- 'Professionalisation' of campaigning
- Increase in competition and coalitions
- Marginalisation of dissent
Download Future Focus 7 (PDF 2.59 Mb)
Special offer
Buy all six guides for £12.50 (£8.75 NCVO Members)
This series was commissioned by the Performance Hub, and written by NCVO Third Sector Foresight. From Future Focus 6 onwards, they are produced with funding as part of the Responding to Social Change workstream led by Third Sector Foresight.
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