
As the Covid-19 crisis hit, NPC released State of the Sector 2020: The condition of charities before the COVID-19 crisis.
This detailed their research findings that were most useful for the sector’s short-term response. Their latest paper, State of the Sector 2020: Where we stood as the crisis hit delves deeper into those issues, and others which are less immediate but are nonetheless important to understand how the sector saw itself before the crisis. NPC believes they remain relevant to the sector’s resilience, and its ability to support the country’s recovery over the coming months and years.
NPCs research captures our sector in the final few months of calm before the storm, offering insight into its strengths, weaknesses, challenges and risks. It paints a picture of a broad and complex sector, wrestling with its relationship with government, funding challenges, technological change and its own diversity and representativeness.
They hope that by understanding the trajectory the sector has been on since 2017, funders, philanthropists and policymakers will be more able to understand what happens in the crisis and help charities adapt to the new challenges they face, so they can keep serving the people who need them more than ever.