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2020 at a glance

It is more important than ever that charities are able to measure, understand and communicate their impact. Here's how we've helped charities this year. Read more

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Helping charities understand and improve their impact and value Read more

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Job vacancy: Senior Project Manager

The SPM will work directly with a wide variety of charities – from helping them understand and articulate their impacts to the delivery of full-blown economic evaluation reports outlining their benefits to society.
Job vacancy: Press Officer

We are looking for a Press Officer with some experience to join PBE’s External Affairs team. This is a new role, created to ensure PBE can fulfil its goal of being an influential, impactful evidence-based authority on the social sector.
Andy Haldane: digital transformation in the charity sector

Incentives like a ‘digital civic passport’ can recognise voluntary action and encourage wider participation in civic service. Originally published in the Financial Times.
Flash survey: How has your charity coped this winter?

Help us tell the government how your charity has coped this winter by filling out this quick survey.

Is this time different? Charity funding in recession and recovery

PBE's latest research looks at how the Covid-19 recession and recovery could impact charity income
Press release: Economists sound warning over 'charity crunch'

75% of charities expect higher demand next year, while 83% forecast income decline
The Role of Charities in an Era of Anxiety

Speech given by Andy Haldane for Charity Finance Week 2020
Press release: Community support falls by third at start of second lockdown

When coronavirus hit, there was a surge in people putting up their hands to help others in need, both through charities and within their neighbourhoods. Yet with the pandemic far from over, there are signs that the surge in community spirit is starting to flag.
Civil Action: exploring civil society's potential in the 2020s

The Commission on Civil Society aims to remove the constraints that hold the sector back and promote the approaches that help to push it forward. This report is the first step on that journey.
Andy Haldane: digital transformation in the charity sector

Incentives like a ‘digital civic passport’ can recognise voluntary action and encourage wider participation in civic service. Originally published in the Financial Times.
Our mission

Helping charities understand and improve their impact and value
Essay Collection: Civil Society, Unleashed

21 thinkers, activists, professionals, writers and academics across the public, private and social sectors were asked the same question: ‘How do we unleash the potential of civil society in the 2020s?’.
PBE Reacts: Comprehensive Spending Review 2020

"Putting civil society’s expertise at the heart of our policy making will be key to meeting the government’s aim to build back better."
Press release: Gloomy winter ahead for charity

Lockdown worries for 55% of charities as 2020 takes its toll

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