Drivers
NCVO Third Sector Foresight identifies and summarises the key strategic drivers that could influence the UK voluntary sector. Here is our complete list of forces, trends, and influences that are at work today.
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Politics
- Bringing markets into public services
- Changing nature of community leadership
- Democratisation of media
- Efficiency and value for money
- Engagement in formal politics
- Focus on well-being
- Human rights agenda
- Identity politics
- Increase in role of VCS in public ser...
- International campaigns and movements
- International institutions
- Localism agenda
- Partnership working and governance
- Personalisation of services
- Policies on active citizenship and vo...
- Policies on multiculturalism and soci...
- Power of media in influencing policy
- Power of multinationals
- Priorities for public spending
- Public participation in decision-making
- Rationalisation of funding streams
- Regionalisation
- Regulation of civil life
- Rise in radicalism
- Rise of single-issues
- Security and surveillance
Economics
- Blurring boundaries between sectors
- Bringing markets into public services
- Consumer spending and confidence
- Consumption culture & personal debt
- Corporate giving
- Corporate responsibility
- Direct payments and individual accounts
- Efficiency and value for money
- Expectations of evidence
- Global population movement
- Globalisation of markets
- Green taxation
- Housing market
- Hybridisation of charities
- Increase in role of VCS in public ser...
- Inequality between local areas
- Interest rates
- Internationalisation of public services
- Labour market
- Level and sources of VCS income
- Loan finance
- New philanthropists
- Number of general charities
- Planned individual giving
- Polarisation of the VCS
- Poverty and inequality
- Power of multinationals
- Priorities for public spending
- Procurement practice
- Public attitudes towards domestic pov...
- Rationalisation of funding streams
- Social enterprise
- Social investment
- Stock market performance
Society
- 'Britishness' and citizenship
- Ageing population
- Attitudes towards class and socio-eco...
- Attitudes towards community responsib...
- Attitudes towards ethnicity
- Attitudes towards immigrants
- Attitudes towards risk
- Attitudes towards the welfare state
- Consumption culture & personal debt
- Corporate responsibility
- Digital exclusion
- Empowered consumers/information society
- Ethical living and consumerism
- Ethnic, cultural and religious diversity
- Family networks
- Focus on well-being
- Global population movement
- Growth of online communities
- Human rights agenda
- Identity politics
- Importance of organisational values
- Importance of work/life balance
- Inequality between local areas
- International campaigns and movements
- Media understanding and reporting of ...
- New philanthropists
- Perception of threat
- Personal mobility
- Personalisation of services
- Policies on multiculturalism and soci...
- Poverty and inequality
- Power of media in influencing policy
- Public attitudes to data use
- Public attitudes towards domestic pov...
- Public expectations and assertiveness
- Public participation in decision-making
- Public spaces
- Regulation of civil life
- Religious affilliation and spirituality
- Rise in radicalism
- Satisfaction with public services
- Security and surveillance
- Single person households
- Time and energy deficit
- Tolerance of anti-social behaviour
- Trust in institutions (charities and ...
Technology
- 'Always on' society
- Access to the internet
- Aggregation and storage of data
- Democratisation of media
- Digital exclusion
- Empowered consumers/information society
- Growth of online communities
- Information on the VCS
- Interactive websites
- Lowering costs of ICT
- Mobile technology and technology conv...
- New ways of organising online informa...
- Public attitudes to data use
- The long tail
Environment
Management and administration
- Collaborative working
- Expectations of evidence
- Importance of organisational values
- Importance of work/life balance
- Information on the VCS
- Numbers of volunteers
- Partnership working and governance
- Policies on active citizenship and vo...
- Professionalisation of volunteering
- Trust in institutions (charities and ...
Feeling overwhelmed?
As you can see, there are many drivers that are shaping the future of voluntary and community organisations. The good news is that you can put most of them to one side in your own strategic planning.
Read our introduction to strategic analysis and find out how to sort and prioritise drivers. The guide takes you through the five stages of strategic analysis and there are templates to download to help you organise your thoughts.