Research / Statistics

Thank you to everyone who responded quickly via Twitter and the UK Fundraising group on Facebook with ideas, thoughts and experiences of the impact of the credit crunch on fundraising.
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A recent joint study by researchers at Oxford and Kent universities has found that men are likely to give more money if they are asked while they are in the company of women they find sexually attractive. In fact, they were between 25 per cent and 100 per cent more generous when they were in the presence of women they wouldn’t have minded getting off with.
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Congratulations to Alan Clayton of Cascaid who managed to get a 100% positive rating in the feedback from delegates for his closing plenary at the Institute of Fundraising's
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It's all very well publishing and sharing thoughts, news, and ideas on Twitter, but are you shouting into the wind?
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Online giving site Justgiving have announced that their Facebook app, which lets sponsored event participants promote their event via th
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If the essential logic of fundraising is hearts, minds, giving - then the emotional logic of legacies is surely family first, charity second, made possible with a small percentage of whats left.
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I must admit to enjoying reading facts and figures about the voluntary sector - how big it is, how many people it involves, what it achieves, and so on.
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The average age UK Internet users has risen from 35.7 to 37.9 years in the year from October 2006-2007, according to Nielsen Online.

At the same time, the share of the UK Internet population made up by under 25 year-olds has decreased from 29% to 25%, while the share of 55+ year-olds increased from 16% to 19%.
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The Charity Commission's website is the focus of this week's site visit in Third Sector magazine.

Andy Ricketts analyses the site, which cost "about £30,000" and was designed by Harlequin Solutions together with some in-house work.
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