All strategic drivers
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Sports Organisations
Politics
- Big Society Agenda
- Changing nature of community leadership
- Constrained public spending
- EU Agenda
- Efficiency and value for money
- Engagement in formal politics
- Focus on well-being
- International campaigns and movements
- Localism agenda
- Marginalisation of dissent
- Open Data
- Personalisation of care and individua...
- Policies on volunteering
- Professionalisation of Campaigning
- Public participation in decision-making
- Public service delivery
- Rise of single-issues
- Security and surveillance
Economics
- Attitudes towards domestic poverty
- Commodification of membership
- Constrained public spending
- Consumer confidence
- Corporate giving
- Corporate responsibility
- Economic downturn
- Efficiency and value for money
- Ethical living and consumerism
- Expectations of evidence
- Globalisation of markets
- Green taxation
- Housing market
- Immigration
- Individual giving
- Inequality between local areas
- Inflation
- Interest rates
- Labour market
- Level and sources of VCS income
- Loan finance
- Online Revenue
- Personal debt
- Polarisation of the VCS
- Poverty and inequality
- Procurement practice
- Public service delivery
- Social enterprise
- Stock market performance
- The free economy
Society
- 'Always on' society
- Ageing population
- Attitudes to different generations
- Attitudes to participation
- Attitudes towards domestic poverty
- Attitudes towards immigrants
- Attitudes towards risk
- Attitudes towards the welfare state
- Changing family structures
- Collaborative consumption
- Consumer confidence
- Corporate responsibility
- Digital exclusion
- Empowered consumers/information society
- Ethical living and consumerism
- Ethnic and cultural diversity
- Focus on well-being
- Immigration
- Individualism
- Inequality between local areas
- Localism agenda
- Marginalisation of dissent
- Online communities
- Online trust and identity
- Perception of threat
- Personal debt
- Personal mobility
- Personalisation of care and individua...
- Poverty and inequality
- Professionalisation of Campaigning
- Public Concerns
- Public expectations and assertiveness
- Public participation in decision-making
- Public spaces
- Religious affilliation and spirituality
- Security and surveillance
- Social mobility
- Time and energy deficit
- Trust in charities
Technology
- 'Always on' society
- Access to the internet
- Collaborative consumption
- Data management
- Digital exclusion
- Ease of publishing online
- 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
- Open Data
- The free economy
- Ubiquitous connectivity
BME Third Sector
Disabled people's organisations
Environment
Hospices
Membership
Mental Health
Older people
Sector trends
- Attitudes to participation
- Blurring boundaries between sectors
- Collaborative working
- Commodification of membership
- Corporate giving
- Expectations of evidence
- Individual giving
- Information on the VCS
- International campaigns and movements
- Level and sources of VCS income
- Marginalisation of dissent
- Number of general charities
- Polarisation of the VCS
- Policies on volunteering
- Procurement practice
- Professionalisation of Campaigning
- Professionalisation of volunteering
- Regulation of Civil Society
- Social enterprise
- Trends in volunteering
- Trust in charities
Students' Unions
Youth Organisations
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.
