Our strategic analysis
Every year we publish our own strategic analysis of the changing operating environment and drivers for the voluntary and community sector, Voluntary Sector Strategic Analysis.
Voluntary Sector Strategic Analysis 2007/08 was published on 15th October 2007. All NCVO members received a free copy as a key membership benefit.
Purchase a copy (£15/£10.50 NCVO members)
The publication brings together discussion of key drivers and their implications in 'aspects' of the operating environment. The six aspects discussed in the 2007 edition are:
- Local governance
- Public services
- Attitudes towards individual and collective responsibility
- Funding
- Globalisation
- The environment
The publication is designed to complement this website. The website provides a greater depth of analysis about each driver and links through to sources of further information. The publication provides an overview and is better able to explore the links and tensions between drivers.
Browse through the drivers on this website or read about how to start your own strategic analysis.
Voluntary Sector Strategic Analysis 2007/08 further reading
Below are links to the further reading listed in the latest edition of Voluntary Sector Strategic Analysis, and to further sources of information and analysis not listed in the publication.
Local governance
- The implications of local government reform for the VCS: Third Sector Foresight seminar report (NCVO, 2006)
- All our futures: the challenges for local governance in 2015 (Tavistock Institute for ODPM, 2006)
- GLIMPSES: A less centralised state (Tomorrow Project)
- Localism and local governance (ESRC/NCVO, 2007)
- Whose town is it anyway? (University of Liverpool for Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2006)
- Briefing on Strong and Prosperous Communities – The White Paper implementation Plan (NCVO, 2007)
- Place shaping: a shared ambition for the future of local government. Final report (Lyons Inquiry into Local Government, 2007)
- Community participation. Who benefits? (Demos for JRF, 2006)
- Back in England, something stirs (Economist, 14 April 2007)
Public services
- Building on progress report: Public services (HM Government, 2007)
- Partnership in public services: an action plan for the third sector (Office of the Third Sector, 2006)
- Collaborative State: How working together can transform services (Demos, 2007)
- Re-thinking efficiency and value (NCVO, 2006)
- Customer satisfaction with local services (NCC, 2007)
- The Journey to the Interface (Demos, 2006)
- The Received Wisdom (Demos, 2006)
Attitudes towards individual and collective responsibility
- Attitudes towards Poverty: Findings from the British Social Attitudes Survey (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2007)
- Poverty and Equality in the UK: 2007 (IFS, 2007)
- Public Attitudes towards Taxation and Public Services (GfK for Lyons Inquiry, 2006)
- Paying for long-term care: Moving Forward (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2006)
- Report of findings of a survey on public trust and confidence in charities (Charity Commission, 2005)
- Public attitudes to economic inequality (JRF, 2007)
- Economic conditions and public attitudes towards welfare state policies (ISER, 2006)
Funding
- The UK voluntary sector almanac 2007 (NCVO, 2007)
- From funding to finance: the changing world of third sector resources (NCVO, 2007)
- Venture philanthropy: the evolution of high engagement philanthropy in Europe (Oxford Saïd Business School, 2006)
- Blended value and social investment: new approaches to VCS funding: Third Sector Foresight seminar report (NCVO, 2006)
- I've seen the future – and it's earmarked (Whitewater blog, 1 December 2006)
- Research on Third Sector Access to Finance (SQW for OTS, 2007)
- The impact of new technologies on charitable giving (NCVO, 2007)
- 'The new ecology of social benefit' in Looking out for the future: an orientation for twenty-first century philanthropists (Global Business Network and Monitor Institute, 2005)
Globalisation
- The Future of International NGOs (BOND, 2004)
- GLIMPSES: Globalisation (Tomorrow Project)
- ‘Globalisation’ and ‘Global uncertainty’ in Long term challenges facing the UK (HM Treasury, 2006)
- Strengthening Global Civil Society (IPPR, 2006)
- From local to global (ESRC/NCVO, 2007)
- The best way to give the poor a real voice is through a world parliament (Guardian, 24 April 2007)
- 2006 Global trends: refugees, asylum seekers, returnees, internally displaced, and stateless persons (UNHRC, 2007)
- Global strategic trends (MoD, 2007)
The environment
- Securing the Future: Delivering UK Sustainable Development Strategy (HM Government, 2005)
- Policy Review: Energy and the Environment (Cabinet Office, 2007)
- Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change (HM Government, 2007)
- I will if you will: towards sustainable consumption (National Consumer Council and Sustainable Development Commission, 2006)
- Corporate Social Responsibility at a Crossroads: Futures of CSR in the UK to 2015 (IEED, 2006)
- The Ethical Consumer Report 2005 (Cooperative Bank, 2006)
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation public spaces website
