Kreston Charities Group Survey 2022

Financial resilience

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* 1. Is your charity in a more or less sustainable financial position than it was when the pandemic started in March 2020?

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* 2. Do you consider that your financial reserves are sufficient to cover future development plans and contingencies for increased costs or reduced income?

Inflation

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* 3. Excluding salaries, how much have you seen your costs increase in the last year?

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* 4. Have pay awards at your charity increased by at least the current rate of inflation in the last year (10.5%)?

Retention and recruitment of staff

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* 5. Has the recruitment and retention of staff become more, or less, challenging than it was during the pandemic in 2020?

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* 6. Are you taking steps, other than by financial means, to make your charity a more rewarding place to work?

Mergers and collaboration

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* 7. Have you collaborated more with other organisations including charities, public sector bodies or private companies, since the pandemic/cost of living crisis started? Please tick the ones you have collaborated with:

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* 8. Would you consider merging with another charity with similar objectives to your own?

Risk management

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* 9. Do you have more or less confidence in your risk management processes than you did before the pandemic/cost of living crisis?

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* 10. How likely is it that we’ll experience an event such as a pandemic which will impact on your organisation within the next few years?

Reputation

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* 11. Do you feel the charity sector as a whole is more, or less valued by the general public than it was pre the Covid pandemic in 2019?

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* 12. Have high profile scandals/issues regarding safeguarding and accusations of misuse of funds at larger charities negatively affected your ability to raise funds?

Cyber security

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* 13. Are you satisfied that your charity has reasonable and proportionate cyber security measures in place to protect it?

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* 14. A Cyber insurance policy provides a combination of coverage options to help protect an organisation from the impact of data breaches and other cyber security issues and may be included as part of a broader policy - Does your charity have cyber insurance cover in place?

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* 15. Have you stepped up cyber security training for staff in the last 12 months?

Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI)

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* 16. Have you been asked by funders or potential funders for details of your EDI policy?

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* 17. In what areas are you most concerned about a lack of diversity in your organisation?

Mental wellbeing 

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* 18. Are your beneficiaries more affected by mental health issues than they were before the pandemic/cost of living crisis started?

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* 19. Have you increased the provision of mental health support for your staff/volunteers in the last two years?

Climate change

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* 20. Have you been asked by funders or potential funders for details of what you are doing to lessen your impact on the environment?

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* 21. Are environmental matters….

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* 22. Does your charity report on its environmental impact, for example streamlined energy and carbon reporting (SECR)?

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* 23. Thank you for completing the survey, please enter your email address below to receive a copy of the report*.

*By entering your email addresses you are agreeing for your survey results to no longer be anonymous and therefore be shared with Kreston UK Charity group in order to receive a copy of the final report.

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