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  • A Shared Interest: The relationships between policymakers and charities

    A Shared Interest: The relationships between policymakers and charities

    This new PBE study for the Law Family Commission on Civil Society is the most comprehensive review of the social sector’s interactions with policymakers ever conducted. Read more

  • Mind the Giving Gap: Unleashing the potential of UK philanthropy

    Mind the Giving Gap: Unleashing the potential of UK philanthropy

    The latest PBE study for the Law Family Commission on Civil Society looks at how falling participation in philanthropy, a decline in average giving by the wealthiest, and persistently unclaimed Gift Aid have combined to create a three-fold ‘giving gap’. Read more

  • Pandemic Scars and the Charity Sector

    Pandemic Scars and the Charity Sector

    New survey research into how the charity sector's success in supporting people during the pandemic has come at the cost of the workforce's health and wellbeing. Read more

  • Paying the price: The cost of very poor adult literacy

    Paying the price: The cost of very poor adult literacy

    Improving the UK's literacy can not only help individuals to progress into higher earning roles, but it can also insulate them from sector-specific downturns as seen during the pandemic. Read more

  • A Shared Interest: The relationships between policymakers and charities
  • Mind the Giving Gap: Unleashing the potential of UK philanthropy
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  1. Research & policy

Research & policy

PBE’s research and policy team uses the toolkit of economics to better understand and support the social sector.

We build on the insights derived from our charity projects to investigate how social sector organisations can get the most out of their resources. We develop ideas to support a thriving civil society and use data to grow the evidence base for action.

Seizing the philanthropic prize - The role of the UK government in growing philanthropy

Seizing the philanthropic prize - The role of the UK government in growing philanthropy

Boosting collaboration between the government and the philanthropy sector is essential to growing charitable giving. Read more

Published: 16th June, 2022

Updated: 28th June, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

Second Wave: Charities and the Spring Statement 2022

Second Wave: Charities and the Spring Statement 2022

PBE's analysis of the Chancellor's Spring Statement and the latest OBR figures, what they mean for the people charities serve, charity demand and finances. Read more

Published: 23rd March, 2022

Updated: 22nd April, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

A tunnel at the end of the light: Charities and the cost-of-living crisis

A tunnel at the end of the light: Charities and the cost-of-living crisis

New analysis on the cost-of-living crisis' impact on low-income households and the charities supporting them. Read more

Published: 21st March, 2022

Updated: 24th March, 2022

Author: Tia Manavis

Economic Outlook Briefing 2022/23

Economic Outlook Briefing 2022/23

Charity Finance Group (CFG) and Pro Bono Economics (PBE) have published an Economic Outlook Briefing for the charity sector. Read more

Published: 11th March, 2022

Updated: 15th March, 2022

Author: Tia Manavis

A Shared Interest: The relationships between policymakers and charities

A Shared Interest: The relationships between policymakers and charities

This new PBE study for the Law Family Commission on Civil Society is the most comprehensive review of the social sector’s interactions with policymakers ever conducted. Read more

Published: 4th March, 2022

Updated: 18th March, 2022

Author: Tia Manavis

Mind the Giving Gap: Unleashing the potential of UK philanthropy

Mind the Giving Gap: Unleashing the potential of UK philanthropy

The latest PBE study for the Law Family Commission on Civil Society looks at how falling participation in philanthropy, a decline in average giving by the wealthiest, and persistently unclaimed Gift Aid have combined to create a three-fold ‘giving gap’. Read more

Published: 15th December, 2021

Updated: 18th March, 2022

Author: Tia Manavis

An unstable environment: The economic case for getting asylum decisions right first time

An unstable environment: The economic case for getting asylum decisions right first time

This study for the Refugee Survival Trust looks at the significant costs incurred by UK taxpayers and applicants themselves through incorrect Home Office asylum decisions. Read more

Published: 20th November, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

Pandemic Scars and the Charity Sector

Pandemic Scars and the Charity Sector

New survey research into how the charity sector's success in supporting people during the pandemic has come at the cost of the workforce's health and wellbeing. Read more

Published: 15th November, 2021

Updated: 22nd April, 2022

Author: Tia Manavis

Better data, bigger impact: a review of social sector data

Better data, bigger impact: a review of social sector data

Nearly half a million social sector organisations in the UK play a vital role in sustaining our society and economy, but a serious paucity of data is preventing the social sector from unleashing its full potential Read more

Published: 20th October, 2021

Updated: 21st October, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

Paying the price: The cost of very poor adult literacy

Paying the price: The cost of very poor adult literacy

Improving the UK's literacy can not only help individuals to progress into higher earning roles, but it can also insulate them from sector-specific downturns as seen during the pandemic. Read more

Published: 15th September, 2021

Updated: 28th January, 2022

Author: Tia Manavis

Purpose: On Parallel Tracks

Purpose: On Parallel Tracks

Great things can happen when civil society and the private sector team up, but the scale of engagement needs to be boosted. New research about the benefits that come when these sectors team up, and what's getting in the way. Read more

Published: 9th August, 2021

Updated: 5th October, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

Boosting pre-school language skills

Boosting pre-school language skills

This research explores long-term economic importance of early years language skills, highlighting why this basic skill is so crucial to individuals as well as wider society. Read more

Published: 21st July, 2021

Updated: 28th October, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

A decade of change for children's services funding

A decade of change for children's services funding

PBE’s research raises concerns of a false economy in children’s services, where the need for Local Authorities to cut costs has fallen predominantly on early interventions spending such as children’s centres, family support services and services for young people. Read more

Published: 12th July, 2021

Updated: 15th September, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

Taking account: the case for establishing a UK social economy satellite account

Taking account: the case for establishing a UK social economy satellite account

We know that the social sector plays a vital role in the wellbeing of our country. It also plays a vital role in our economy. But currently, we know very little about the scale or nature of that contribution. Read more

Published: 7th July, 2021

Updated: 15th September, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

Quarterly Covid Charity Tracker Survey results: April 2021

Quarterly Covid Charity Tracker Survey results: April 2021

This month, charities reported that they expect a long road of recovery ahead. There are concerns that financial challenges will not abate, as organisations struggle to get fundraising events back in the calendar and to fill those already pencilled in. Read more

Published: 17th June, 2021

Updated: 7th July, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

Supporting effective volunteering for the 2020s

Supporting effective volunteering for the 2020s

This note is the first of a series of summaries we’ll be publishing from the Law Family Commission on Civil Society's call for evidence on unleashing the potential of civil society in the 2020s. Read more

Published: 7th June, 2021

Updated: 7th July, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

Setting lockdown savings free

Setting lockdown savings free

Is there an opportunity for the charity sector in the £250billion in built up household savings? Our analysis examines the behavioural insights and changes to Gift Aid which could help increase donations from the pandemic savings "windfall". Read more

Published: 31st May, 2021

Updated: 14th July, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

What's missing? Evaluating social sector data gaps

What's missing? Evaluating social sector data gaps

As part of the Law Family Commission on Civil Society, PBE is investigating the role and potential for better data about social sector organisations, with a particular focus on charities. Read more

Published: 20th April, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

Counting on the recovery

Counting on the recovery

With the Covid crisis and its impacts on our economy evident and plans to level up the economy through the recovery becoming real, the need for a national debate on numeracy is now an urgent one. Read more

Published: 14th April, 2021

Updated: 7th June, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

Levelling Up: On the right track?

Levelling Up: On the right track?

With each new announcement, it becomes clearer what levelling up really means. It also raises new questions as to whether the government will truly be able to improve people’s lives in a meaningful way. Read more

Published: 7th April, 2021

Updated: 7th June, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

Employee volunteering schemes as a way of improving staff wellbeing

Employee volunteering schemes as a way of improving staff wellbeing

Through this analysis, supported by Bank of America, we demonstrate the potential for corporate volunteering schemes to be cost-effective ways of improving employee wellbeing once indirect cost savings from reduced absenteeism, presenteeism and staff turnover are incorporated. Read more

Published: 18th March, 2021

Updated: 21st July, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on problem debt in the UK

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on problem debt in the UK

Our analysis, commissioned by Citizens Advice, finds that there could be at least 1.5 million households at risk of problem debt by mid-2021 as a result of the economic fallout from the Covid-19 crisis - an increase of 370,000 – 480,000 households compared to pre-crisis levels. Read more

Published: 1st March, 2021

Updated: 14th April, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

The Magic Breakfast model of school breakfast provision

The Magic Breakfast model of school breakfast provision

This research finds that if all pupils who are completing KS1 at schools with high disadvantage in England received Magic Breakfast’s model of school breakfast provision, it could generate long-term benefits of £2.7 billion. Read more

Published: 7th February, 2021

Updated: 25th March, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

January 11-18 Covid Charity Tracker Survey results

January 11-18 Covid Charity Tracker Survey results

With last year's winter fundraising opportunities more limited than usual, we asked charities to reflect on fundraising over 2020 and the Christmas period in particular in this flash survey. Read more

Published: 3rd February, 2021

Updated: 28th June, 2021

Author: Tia Manavis

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    Charity counselling service in primary schools generates £36m in long-term benefits each year

    Study shows benefits of specialist counselling for rising child mental health issues.

  • Place2Be’s one-to-one counselling service in UK primary schools: an updated cost-benefit analysis

    Place2Be’s one-to-one counselling service in UK primary schools: an updated cost-benefit analysis

    An updated cost-benefit analysis of Place2Be's 1:1 counselling service in primary schools.

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    Wellbeing Valuation Lunch & Learn

    Online and in-person training session for economists on the HMT Green Book Supplementary Guidance on Wellbeing

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    Wellbeing Valuation Half-Day Workshop

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    A decade of change for children's services funding

    PBE’s research raises concerns of a false economy in children’s services, where the need for Local Authorities to cut costs has fallen predominantly on early interventions spending such as children’s centres, family support services and services for young people.

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