All strategic drivers
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BME Third Sector
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Membership
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Mental Health
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Young people
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Politics
- 2010 General Election
- Bringing markets into public services
- Changing nature of community leadership
- Conservative focus on social justice
- Ease of publishing online
- 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
- Levels of public spending
- Localism agenda
- Partnership working and governance
- Personalisation of services
- Policies on active citizenship and vo...
- Policies on multiculturalism and soci...
- Policies on rights and responsibilities
- Power of media in influencing policy
- Power of multinationals
- Public participation in decision-making
- Regionalisation
- Regulation of civil life
- Rise in radicalism
- Rise of single-issues
- Security and surveillance
- The EU Agenda
Economics
- Bringing markets into public services
- Consumer spending and confidence
- Consumption culture & personal debt
- Corporate giving
- Corporate responsibility
- Credit crunch
- Direct payments and individual accounts
- Economic downturn
- Efficiency and value for money
- Ethical living and consumerism
- Expectations of evidence
- Global population movement
- Globalisation of markets
- Green taxation
- Housing market
- Increase in role of VCS in public ser...
- Inequality between local areas
- Inflation
- Interest rates
- International institutions
- Labour market
- Level and sources of VCS income
- Levels of public spending
- Loan finance
- New philanthropists
- Planned individual giving
- Polarisation of the VCS
- Poverty and inequality
- Power of multinationals
- Procurement practice
- Public attitudes towards domestic pov...
- Social enterprise
- Stock market performance
Society
- 'Britishness' and citizenship
- Ageing population
- Attitudes to different generations
- Attitudes towards class and socio-eco...
- Attitudes towards community responsib...
- Attitudes towards ethnicity
- Attitudes towards immigrants
- Attitudes towards risk
- Attitudes towards the welfare state
- Conservative focus on social justice
- Consumption culture & personal debt
- Corporate responsibility
- Digital exclusion
- Empowered consumers/information society
- Ethical living and consumerism
- Ethnic and cultural diversity
- Family networks
- Focus on well-being
- Global population movement
- Human rights agenda
- Identity politics
- Importance of organisational values
- Importance of work/life balance
- Individualism
- Inequality between local areas
- International campaigns and movements
- New philanthropists
- Online communities
- Online trust and identity
- Perception of threat
- Personal mobility
- Personalisation of services
- Policies on multiculturalism and soci...
- Poverty and inequality
- Power of media in influencing policy
- Public Concerns
- 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
- Security and surveillance
- Single person households
- Time and energy deficit
- Tolerance of anti-social behaviour
- Trust in charities
Technology
- 'Always on' society
- Access to the internet
- Data management
- Digital exclusion
- Ease of publishing online
- Ease of reaching niche groups
- Empowered consumers/information society
- Information on the VCS
- Interactive websites
- New ways of organising online informa...
- Online Revenue
- Online Security
- Online communities
- Online trust and identity
- Ubiquitous connectivity
Environment
Sector trends
- Blurring boundaries between sectors
- Collaborative working
- Expectations of evidence
- Hybridisation of charities
- Importance of organisational values
- Importance of work/life balance
- Increase in role of VCS in public ser...
- Information on the VCS
- Level and sources of VCS income
- Number of general charities
- Partnership working and governance
- Polarisation of the VCS
- Policies on active citizenship and vo...
- Professionalisation of volunteering
- Trends in volunteering
- Trust in charities
Hospices
Older people
Students' Unions
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.
