In this final report on third sector barriers and coping strategies, TSI’s Annette Zimmer and Benedikt Pahl present findings from national research in a comparative manner.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/comparative-report-learning-europe/This paper examines trends in the level of voluntary activity in Britain and draws conclusions whether it is possible to expand the impact of the third sector through an extension of volunteering.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/tsi-working-paper-no-14-developmental-trends-british-third-sector/The issue of improving the visibility of the third sector emerges as the key demand and challenge at the TSI’s final conference in Brussels on 9 November. Visibility has a number of components, provided by a variety of stakeholders – researchers, policy makers, statistical agencies, the media – who must all contribute their part to […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/giving-third-sector-visibility-deserves/Read the first TSI Barriers Briefing prepared by TSI partner institutions Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) and the University of Kent (SSPSSSR and PSSRU) and a second paper that moves towards a more nuanced account of the barriers third sector organisations are facing in their attemots to to achieving impact.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/first-national-briefing-on-third-sector-barriers-policy-development-in-the-uk/English third sector experts from the worlds of practice and academia met on 23 February 2016 in London as part of the process of involving national stakeholders in the implementation of the TSI research project. The purposes of the meeting were: (1) to review Draft Policy Briefings reports, summarising (a) the findings from Workpackage 5 […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/report-of-second-stakeholder-meeting-on-third-sector-barriers-in-the-uk/The analysis reported here, undertaken collaboratively between the Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) and the University of Kent (SSPSSSR and PSSRU) in the UK, builds upon the ‘barriers to impact’ component of the EU Third Sector Impact (TSI) study led by the University of Kent. By combining data holdings at TSRC with results from the TSI […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/tsi-barriers-briefing-no-2-towards-a-more-nuanced-understanding-of-barriers-and-constraints/In recent decades, the third sector (which includes charities and social enterprises) in the UK and abroad has received heightened policy interest as awareness of the limits of market and state-dominated approaches to social problem solving grows. In the UK case, this has involved a slow-motion rollercoaster of change. Initially the sector was embraced under […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/tsi-barriers-briefing-no-1-english-third-sector-policy-in-2015/The TSI UK team conducted their second meeting with national stakeholders to discuss research on third sector barriers.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/events/2016/02/23/tsi-national-stakeholder-group-meeting-in-the-uk/NCVO champions the voluntary sector and volunteering because they are essential for a better society. Our vision – A society where we can all make a difference to the causes that we believe in. Our mission – To help voluntary organisations and volunteers make the biggest difference they can.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/partners/national-council-for-voluntary-organisations-ncvo/This report builds on the first round of TSI consultations with national stakeholders (third sector umbrella organisations, federations and significant third sector aggregations on national level, across all fields of activity), conducted in 6 target countries between April and October 2014.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/first-tsi-stakeholder-engagement-report/
