BETTER DATA SURVEY FOR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS

The ability to make good use of data is increasingly seen as a vital skill for the voluntary sector. NCVO supports organisations to make better use of their own data, and other publicly available data that can help them in their work. Through our Civil Society Almanac and data website, we analyse and provide data about how the sector is doing and help people understand trends in funding, workforce and volunteering.

We need your views

We’re reviewing how we provide data and support organisations to use it.  As part of this review we want to understand better how organisations use (and would like to use) data in their work and how we could make it easier for them to do so.  

You could win a day's support from a research/data specialist

You can help us get things right by taking part in this survey.  It should take no more than 10-12 minutes. You don’t have to identify yourself unless you’d like to get more actively involved in our “better data” project further down the line, or if you’d like to be entered into our survey prize draw to win a day’s free research/data consultancy. We will report results anonymously, not identifying any individuals or organisations.

We have two surveys running. One for voluntary organisations, and one for anyone else interested in data about voluntary organisations. This questionnaire is aimed at people working for a voluntary organisation.  If you do NOT work for a voluntary organisation, (eg. if you are based in a university, a public or private sector organisation, or a government department, or if you aren't affiliated to any organisation) please click here to go to the right questionnaire for you.

This year you may also have completed our summer questionnaire on volunteering data. Though that survey had some similar themes to this, the questions are different so it would still be great to hear your views.

Thank you in advance for your time.

Deb James, NCVO Research.  [Tel: 020 7520 2548.  Email: deborah.james@ncvo.org.uk]