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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
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Effectiveness of Time to Shine

Effectiveness of Time to Shine

This report provides an analysis of the potential impact of Time to Shine by The Rank Foundation on the charities that take part in the programme. Read more

Published: 23rd May, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

Breaking the cycle: The economic cost of poor parental mental health

Breaking the cycle: The economic cost of poor parental mental health

Working in partnership with Our Time, this research provides an analysis of the economic impact of children raised by a parent who has mental health difficulties. Read more

Published: 17th May, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

Local Elections: Social Sector Pledges (2022)

Local Elections: Social Sector Pledges (2022)

Using our interactive map, discover where in the country council groups and political parties are setting out the most ambitious agenda for the social sector in 2022's local elections. Read more

Published: 5th May, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

West London Zone

West London Zone

Pro Bono Economics worked with West London Zone to examine the potential economic outcomes of their programme of support for children facing multiple disadvantages in west London. Read more

Published: 29th April, 2022

Updated: 3rd May, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

Charities need to be a vital part of the UK’s productivity drive

Charities need to be a vital part of the UK’s productivity drive

Boosting charity productivity is an overlooked opportunity in the campaign to tackle the UK’s productivity problem. Both charities and policymakers have a shared interest in doing so. Read more

Published: 28th April, 2022

Updated: 3rd May, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

Six things charities should know about civil servants

Six things charities should know about civil servants

How can charities influence, engage with and make the most out of their relationships with civil servants? Read more

Published: 27th April, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

Is measuring economic impact right for every charity?

Is measuring economic impact right for every charity?

PBE Economist, Madison Kerr, explores the PBE approach to measuring the economic impact of charities. Read more

Published: 8th April, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

To tackle the energy bills crisis, the government must put policy before politics

To tackle the energy bills crisis, the government must put policy before politics

PBE’s Research and Policy Director Helen Barnard writes about the UK’s cost-of-living crisis and the government’s failure to put policy before politics. Read more

Published: 29th March, 2022

Updated: 31st March, 2022

Author: Charlotte Warren

Pro bono work isn't just for lawyers. Here's why civil servants should volunteer

Pro bono work isn't just for lawyers. Here's why civil servants should volunteer

PBE’s Chief Economist Jon Franklin reflects on his experience of volunteering as a civil servant and argues that it is vital more civil servants volunteer if the government is to achieve its planned reforms. Read more

Published: 25th March, 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

Inequality in civil society: the data

Inequality in civil society: the data

PBE's Research and Policy Analyst Jack Larkham explores the data on inequality within the social sector workforce. Read more

Published: 8th March, 2022

Author: Tia Manavis

The wellbeing value of reducing parental conflict

The wellbeing value of reducing parental conflict

This research provides a cost-benefit analysis of Tavistock Relation's Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT) for Parenting under Pressure to reduce parental conflict and have cost-effective benefits after one year. Read more

Published: 8th 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

Action needed: Persistent ethnic inequalities in the labour market

Action needed: Persistent ethnic inequalities in the labour market

A team of PBE experts take a closer look at the deeply-entrenched inequalities in the UK's labour market and the restrictions holding back the charities and community groups which could help. Read more

Published: 15th February, 2022

Updated: 16th February, 2022

Author: Tia Manavis

Levelling up our social capital, social fabric and wellbeing

Levelling up our social capital, social fabric and wellbeing

What do the Levelling Up White Paper, the government's response to the Kruger Review, and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund tell us? Read more

Published: 3rd February, 2022

Author: Tia Manavis

Civil society is central to every part of levelling up

Civil society is central to every part of levelling up

PBE chief executive Matt Whittaker examines the key role civil society has to play in each of levelling up's four core objectives. Read more

Published: 1st February, 2022

Author: Tia Manavis

Place-based philanthropy should play a starring role in levelling up

Place-based philanthropy should play a starring role in levelling up

Helen Barnard, PBE's Director of Research and Policy, argues that levelling up will fail to deliver if its ambitions are not matched by greater philanthropic giving in the places that need it the most. Read more

Published: 31st January, 2022

Author: Tia Manavis

Learning to save: Teacher CPD as a cost-effective approach to improving retention

Learning to save: Teacher CPD as a cost-effective approach to improving retention

This research provides a cost-benefit analysis of continuing professional development for teachers, which suggests that increasing CPD is likely to prove cost-effective for the education system within two to three years. Read more

Published: 25th January, 2022

Author: Tia Manavis

Whitehall can do more to realise the potential of charitable giving

Whitehall can do more to realise the potential of charitable giving

PBE's chair Lord Gus O'Donnell makes the case for greater championing of charitable giving from government to help the UK reach the levels of philanthropy seen in Canada and New Zealand. Read more

Published: 24th January, 2022

Author: Tia Manavis

How do we work?

How does PBE work? Read more

Published: 5th January, 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

The Geography of Generosity

The Geography of Generosity

Charities offer part of the solution to each and every challenge of levelling up. But charities and their sources of financing aren't evenly spread. How can we drive up giving in the places that can benefit the most? Read more

Published: 15th December, 2021

Updated: 31st January, 2022

Author: Tia Manavis

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    Effectiveness of Time to Shine

    This report provides an analysis of the potential impact of Time to Shine by The Rank Foundation on the charities that take part in the programme.

  • PBE Reacts: ONS inflation statistics, May 2022

    PBE Reacts: ONS inflation statistics, May 2022

    Jamie O'Halloran, Economist at Pro Bono Economics, gives his reaction to this month's ONS consumer price inflation statistics.

  • New study reveals the ‘vicious cycle’ of intergenerational mental health problems

    New study reveals the ‘vicious cycle’ of intergenerational mental health problems

    New research by Pro Bono Economics has found that the long-term cost of failing to support an 11-year-old whose mother has experience of depression is around £11,600.

  • PBE Reacts: ONS labour market statistics, May 2022

    PBE Reacts: ONS labour market statistics, May 2022

    PBE Economist, Madison Kerr, gives her reaction to this month's ONS labour market statistics.

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    Inflation is rising. Charity boards and leadership teams need to be planning for rising inflation to impact costs, pay deals, donation levels, and demand. Pro Bono Economics has pulled together the key issues to look out for.

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    A decade of change for children's services funding

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