Download - Charities and Public Service delivery
The Role of Charities in Public Service DeliveryCharity Commission/NCVO seminarNovember 2011
Karl Wilding, Head of Research National Council for Voluntary Organisations
Contact: [email protected] or www.twitter.com/karlwilding Evidence|Resources|Policy: www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/psd
The estimates in this slide pack refer to the voluntary sector only – based on the general charities definition
Income: £264m
91,000 micro organisations
4,566 major organisations
Income: £26.9 billion
75,000 small/ medium organisations
Income: £8.4 billion
The VCS in 2008
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Earned income
Earned income only: contracts are driving growth, not sales to people/other sectors
Statutory income = £12.8 billion
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Micro Small Medium Large Major Total
Proportion of organisationsthat receive state funding(%)% statutory income of totalincome
70%
51%
51%
50%
50%
45%
43%
40%
25%
24%
16%
15%
7%
3%
10%
34%
22%
32%
23%
14%
41%
25%
39%
51%
58%
62%
50%
41%
4%
6%
11%
7%
10%
18%
5%
19%
15%
18%
9%
8%
11%
6%
5%
5%
5%
6%
10%
13%
6%
5%
9%
4%
12%
13%
24%
38%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Employment and Training
Education
Law and Advocacy
Social Services
Housing
Umbrella bodies
Health
Development
Culture and Recreation
International
Environment
Religion
Research
Grant-making foundations
Statutory sources Individuals Voluntary sector
Private sector Internally generated National Lottery
Local government funds much of this PSD activity…
Proportion of VCOs in each localauthority that receive statutory income, 2006/07 (%) (quintiles)
…so access to statutory income (and PSD?) varies according to where VCOs are based…
The State(Public Agencies)
The Market(Private Firms)
The Community(Households,
Families)
Associations(Voluntary/non-
profit Organisations)
Non
-pro
fit
For-
pro
fit
Formal
Inform
al
Public
Private
T h i r d
S e c t o r
Key: Mixed Organisations/ Institutions:Source: Evers & Laville, 2004
Where next?
Discussion points
• Role of charities of wider vol orgs?• Public spending: a larger slice of a smaller cake? • The inevitable challenge of scale• Organic growth, new floorspace and new
entrants/hybrids• Are we moving towards Lester Salamon’s concept of
how the state and the sector work?