Research
This page contains free downloads of research conducted by voluntaryskills.com and parent organisation the PNE Group.
PNE Consulting - The Third Sector and Physical Regeneration in Deprived Communities (June 2008)
The PNE Group was recently commissioned by One NorthEast to identify the perceived and actual barriers to greater Third Sector engagement in the physical regeneration of deprived areas. The results of this research can be downloaded below:
voluntaryskills.com - North East Third Sector Skills Survey 2007-2008
The North East Third Sector Skills Survey 2007-2008 was designed to update and help understand the current training needs of people in the sector, highlight any gaps in training provision, and identify barriers to learning across the region. A total of 282 surveys were completed between 19th November and 7th December 2007 and it is hoped that this report will be of interest to:
- Individual Paid Staff & Volunteers – to help encourage them to think more about their own skills development and career progression in the sector.
- Third Sector Organisations – to help organisations plan their own strategic development better and provide a more rewarding working environment for both paid staff and volunteers.
- Training Providers - to help them develop new training programmes that are more responsive to the needs of Third Sector organisations.
- Funders and key decision-makers - to help them better understand the training needs and barriers to learning in the sector, so they can help devise new initiatives and programmes in partnership with Training Providers, and encourage voluntary organisations to build the full costs of training and skills development into their funding bids from the outset.
Executive Summary (PDF, 227kb)
voluntaryskills.com - North East Third Sector ICT Survey 2008
Commissioned by the North East Regional ICT Champion at VONNE, the aim of the North East Third Sector ICT Survey was to identify current ICT training needs and barriers to learning in the sector, which will help develop future training and support programmes in the region. 227 representatives of Third Sector organisations took part in the survey between 15th February and 3rd March 2008.
Full Report (PDF, 684Kb)
PNE Discussion Paper: Third Sector Use of Mainstream Support - Barriers to Access
This discussion paper precedes the full report of a survey by the PNE Group into the development needs of, and sources of development support for, the Third Sector in the North East region of England. This paper looks specifically at the use of mainstream business support services by the sector, with particular emphasis on the barriers to access of those services that were identified during the survey.
voluntaryskills.com - Ambitions and Aspirations of Workers and Volunteers from the Voluntary and Community Sector in the North East (October 2005)
This report is intended to disseminate the findings of research undertaken by PNE as part of the voluntaryskills.com project. It aims to facilitate an understanding of the wants and needs of the voluntary and community sector in relation to individual ambitions and aspirations, and to understand these requirements in relation to the available opportunities uncovered by previous PNE work in the area.
voluntaryskills.com - Training and Development Opportunities for the Voluntary and Community Sector in the North East (March 2005)
The focus of this report is to communicate the results of a recent Project North East study, and to set out the relevance and importance of the findings. A data capture exercise of voluntaryskills.com website data sources was undertaken by Project North East on 17th December 2004. This was carried out to ascertain the nature and extent of training and development available for the voluntary and community sector throughout the North East of England.
