September 2009 News
Legacies feeling the nip?
The latest findings from the Legacy Foresight’s Legacy Monitor service have been released. This survey benchmarks 38 of the UK’s leading charities, who together account for 44% of the legacies market. Their quarterly benchmarking helps set the scene around legacies and how they are being affected by, for example the recession.
Megan reported on the last quarter, ending that Legacy Foresight expected to see legacy incomes decline by up to 10%.
<>Well we're not quite at that trough yet! Compared...Hitting the big numbers
<>Just the other day the FTSE 100 index hit 5,000 for the first time in nearly a year. As mentioned in our driver, stock market levels are mainly driven by confidence. So does this recent bounce mean we are seeing confidence in the UK stockmarket growing? Breaking the 5000 points barrier led to a fair number of news articles proclaiming the start of the end of the recession. An equal amount of media space has been dedicated to the Kraft takeover bid for Cadburys. Some see take overs (mergers...Teasing out the technology drivers
If I started a conversation with you by stating ...
online revenue, cloud computing, social media, ubiquitous connectivity, data handling, on-demand services & the real-time web
... besides looking at me askance, you'd probably assume I was talking about technology.
You'd be correct, but in fact these are just some of the most significant drivers we've singled out for further analysis from the 58 initial technology and internet trends we've spent the last month looking at here at 3S4.
58?
I know.
<>T...The future is not what is used to be
This Autumn the latest in NCVO’s Third Sector Foresight free mini-guides, Future Focus 7, will study the future of campaigning. Here Nick Wilson, new Third Sector Foresight Officer and winner of a Sheila McKechnie Foundation Award for campaigning, looks at what the recent Camp for Climate Action tells us about that future.
<>Over the Bank Holiday weekend Climate Camp staged six days of protest in Blackheath, London, under the banner “The future is not what it used to be”. This was just the...
