Dear voluntary sector collegues

We’d still like you to take part in a major new survey of the voluntary sector in Cheshire and Merseyside (and the rest of Northern England). If you have already responded, thank you very much and we apologise for pestering you again.

National and local funding organisations really need to know what difference you are making to your communities, and they also want to know how to target their spending - so this is important research from everyone's point of view.

Whether you are thriving, struggling or going along as normal; a large or small organisation or group, you need to complete the survey so that a comprehensive picture can be build on how the voluntary sector is faring in this area.

It only takes 15 minutes to complete, you won't need to look up any facts and figures and, hopefully, you'll also find it quite interesting to answer the questions.  Your answers are completely confidential, we do not ask for your organisations name or address, nor record IP addresses.

If you click this link, it will take you straight to the survey questionnaire – where you can find more detail on who is doing the work and why:

https://durham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/third-sector-trends-in-north-west-england-2016 

(If the link doesn't work from this email, then just paste the address in your browser and it will work, and if you don't like clicking links then write me an email and I will send you a link direct to you).

We’re doing well in the North East & Cumbria with over 1,000 responses so far (and 2,750 across the whole of the North) – but need more in local areas to produce useful reports for individual areas.

Best wishes

Lynne

Lynne Daffern
Management Information Systems Co-ordinator
Halton & St Helens Voluntary and Community Action
Telephone: 01744 457100
Working days: Tuesday – Friday, 10 - 2