Transcript An atlas of the recession - Involve Yorkshire & Humber

The Voluntary Sector: a brief tour
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Northern Rock Study
Key Findings in Yorkshire & Humber:
• There are over 14,000 registered third sector
organisations (Mapping TSOs)
• They have an annual income of over £2.75 billion
and total assets of £3.73 billion (Mapping TSOs)
• They employ 72,700 paid workers or 3% of the
region’s workforce (Paid Work and Vol)
• There are 335,400 volunteers who contribute over
25 million hours per year to the sector (Paid Work
and Vol)
Northern Rock Study
Third sector employment as a proportion of total employment by local authority
0.0%
1.0%
2.0%
3.0%
4.0%
5.0%
North Yorkshire
4.7%
4.2%
York
Doncaster
3.5%
Barnsley
3.5%
Calderdale
3.3%
Bradford
3.1%
Leeds
3.0%
2.9%
Kingston upon Hull, City of
Sheffield
2.8%
Rotherham
2.6%
Kirklees
2.5%
Wakefield
1.9%
North East Lincolnshire
1.9%
East Riding of Yorkshire
1.9%
North Lincolnshire
1.1%
Regional
average: 3.0%
Northern Rock Study
Chart 1: Income sources of general charities in Yorkshire and Humber, 2006/07
UK
Yorkshire and Humber
Bansley, Doncaster and Rotherham
Sheffield
Bradford
Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield
Leeds
Kingston upon Hull
East Riding of Yorkshire
North and North East Lincolnshire
York
North Yorkshire
37.9
29.6
20.7
19
31
38.6
30
29.4
59.7
54.7
27.7
14.1
24.1
52.5
44.8
0%
Individuals
36.3
49.7
58.3
65.8
50
44
40.7
49.9
Statutory Sources
33.2
9.2 5.1 11.5
8.2 6.2 6.2
12.2 4.8 4
3.9 6.7 4.6
7.5 8.1 3.4
6.5 4.9 6
13.5
9.3 6.5
6.6 4.1 10.1
7.7 8.7 9.8
8.8 5.6 6.7
6.52.9 10.4
9.8 4.7 7.5
10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Voluntary Sector
Private Sector
Source: Guidestar Data Services/ Northern Rock Foundation Third Sector Trends study
Internally Generated
Below the Radar?
•
For every registered third sector
organisations there is at least one
unregistered organisation (BTR)
A Big Society in Yorkshire and
Humber?
Participation and Involvement
FIGURE 4: EXTENT OF VOLUNTEERING
Scarborough
Scarborough
Richmondshire
Richmondshire
Hambleton
Hambleton
Ryedale
Ryedale
Harrogate
Harrogate
Craven
Craven
York
York
East
East Riding
Riding of
of Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Bradford
Bradford
Leeds
Leeds
Selby
Selby
Kingston
Kingston upon
upon Hull
Hull
Calderdale
Calderdale
Kirklees
Kirklees
Wakefield
Wakefield
North
North Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Barnsley
Barnsley
Doncaster
Doncaster
North
North East
East Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
% of Respondents
> 30
25 to 30
20 to 25
14 to 20
Sheffield
Sheffield
Rotherham
Rotherham
Source: Place Survey 2008
A Big Society in Yorkshire and
the Humber?
Context and Place
• Variation is deprivation across Yorkshire and Humber
• Concentrations of deprivation at different levels
FIGURE 7: LEVELS OF DEPRIVATION
Scarborough
Scarborough
Richmondshire
Richmondshire
Hambleton
Hambleton
Ryedale
Ryedale
Harrogate
Harrogate
Craven
Craven
York
York
East
East Riding
Riding of
of Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Bradford
Bradford
Leeds
Leeds
Selby
Selby
Kingston
Kingston upon
upon Hull
Hull
Calderdale
Calderdale
Kirklees
Kirklees
Wakefield
Wakefield
North
North Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
IMD Score
> 30
25 to 30
12.5 to 25
0 to 12.5
Doncaster
Doncaster
Barnsley
Barnsley
Sheffield
Sheffield
North
North East
East Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Rotherham
Rotherham
Source: Index of Multiple Deprivation 2007
Surprises
• Rural and Urban
• Vulnerability
• Sources of income
• Not everywhere is the same: the geography of cuts
What’s happening now?
Quarterly Confidence Survey – 3 years
• Doing more for less
• Economic gloom…but a significant minority thriving – not just
surviving
Latest Survey
• More than half expect their finances to be stable
• 38% expect it to deteriorate
• Frustration that policy makers take voluntary & community
organisations for granted and are listening a lot less
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It’s the economy…
Citizens Advice queues | £1m | Food Banks growth | Benefit changes
It’s different up North…
And some finer focus…
Health and Social care
• Nationally 57% of VCS staff work in health & social care
organisations
• 45%of social work staff work in the charity sector
• In Yorkshire & Humber almost 20% of general charities focus their
activities in social services
• Involve’s growing HealthNet : 500 and rising
• Life expectancy is 12 years lower for men and 8.3 for women in the
most deprived areas of Bradford than in the least deprived.
• In North Yorkshire it is 6.3 and 4.6
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So what is different about rural?
It has long been known that rural needs are overlooked – or
not given equal weight when policies are being decided or
delivery programmes devised.
(ACRE 2009).
In addition the fact that provision/purchase of such
services is more expensive is also well recorded
(LG Futures, Costs of Providing Services in rural areas, 2011and State of Rural
Services 2011).
And….
• City Deal funding has focused on the bigger cities and
the benefits are not translating to rural areas.
• In metropolitan areas rural communities and the
Community and Voluntary sector who support them are on
the fringe of policy not central to it.
• “A few years ago we were supporting the development of
buying local food for many reasons, now we are helping to
set up food banks.”
(Rural Voluntary Organisation)
What else?
It is impossible to overlook the impact of severe reductions in public
funding
• It costs more to deliver services in sparse rural areas; and
• Central government gives less grant funding to rural than to urban
local authorities. Recent work for SPARSE-Rural found that, on average,
Predominantly Rural authorities receive £324 per head of population in
2011/12, whilst Predominantly Urban authorities receive £487 per head of
population – a difference of £163.
(LG Futures, 2011)
What can work well?
The Voluntary and Community Sector can work
with business to help them build relationships
and with the community in which they operate.
Working in partnership with the local authority
and others is often key to success, collaborate
rather than compete.
Libraries potentially closing and the VCS supporting communities to
take them on. Other opportunities have been found as a result to
overcome rural isolation.
The Voluntary Sector: a brief tour
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References
All can be downloaded from
www.involveyorkshirehumber.org.uk
• Third Sector Organisations in Yorkshire & Humber
• Below the Radar
• A big society in Yorkshire & Humber? (CRESR Hallam, ESRC,
Involve Y & H)
• Quarterly Confidence Survey
• HealthNet
• Rural Network
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Involve is an important organisation,
especially in these times, since it
encourages people working in the
voluntary and community sector to
think – and to do. Both are necessary;
progress is impossible otherwise.
Julia Unwin, Chief Executive
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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