Research
Third Sector Trends Study
Northern Rock Foundation’s Third Sector Trends Study is a ground-breaking research programme on the scale, dynamics and needs of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector in North East England and Cumbria.
The Study is for the first time providing robust, comprehensive and freely available local and regional evidence to describe the sector. The Study will help sector organisations, infrastructure agencies, funders and government bodies who all need better information about the characteristics and activities of the third sector groups. Better data will help to improve funding negotiations, policy development and service planning. The Study will also assist the development of better methods for voluntary sector research nationally.
The Foundation brought together an expert research team for the Study. Professor John Mohan of the University of Southampton leads the quantitative work, alongside NCVO, Guidestar UK and Cumbria and Newcastle CVS. Professor Tony Chapman of the University of Teesside and Professor Fred Robinson of Durham University are running the qualitative strand.
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As well as VONNE research, this section lists research from other organisations which is relevant to the North East. If you have or know of research on the voluntary and community sector (VCS) in the North East that you think we should include, please do let us know.
In this section:
KnowledgeBank
Knowledgebank is an online research bank which contains a range of research conducted by, on behalf of, or representing the voluntary and community sector in the nine English regions.
If you have any research which is not already on KnowledgeBank please do include it.
Key statistics about the North East
The Office for National Statistics produced a portrait of the North East in 2010 giving key statistics about the region.
Download Portrait of the North East (PDF)
Future research
VONNE is continually commissioning and undertaking research projects. We are interested in your thoughts on aspects of the voluntary and community sector where further research would be useful. Please contact us with your ideas for future research projects.
