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Reports analysing State of the Sector Panel data published

The Office of the Third Sector has published a series of reports analysing data from the State of the Sector Panel survey.

The State of the Sector Panel Survey was made up of 5,600 third sector organisations. The Panel was recruited to reflect the range of voluntary and community organisations and social enterprises in England and to pay particular attention to those that provide public services. Panel members were contacted each year to take part in a postal survey and telephone interviews, and approximately 3,600 took part in each of these stages.

The reports published cover the following themes:

• Report 1 describes the activities carried out by the sampled organisations; the amount of funding they received from different sources and their views about the process. 
• Report 2 focuses on panel members’ engagement with their clients and different forms of relationship between organisations including group structures, mergers, collaborative working and membership of infrastructure organisations.
• Report 3 examines the extent and effectiveness of the organisations’ contacts with different public sector bodies and their awareness of National, Regional and Local Compacts.
• Report 4 considers the organisations’ human and capital resources, including the skills and training of their employees and volunteers, their use of Information Technology and the suitability of their accommodation.

You can access the reports via the link below:

• State of the Sector Panel reports