Analysis of Covid Charity Tracker survey free text responses

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From 29 April to 17 June 2020, we ran a weekly Charity Tracker Survey to understand the pressures being faced by the charity sector as a result of the coronavirus crisis.

Over the course of the survey, we also received over a thousand comments from survey participants, in response to the question: Add your comment on what COVID-19 means to your organisation and what more the government, funders or others could be doing to support you.

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