Third Sector Trends in England and Wales 2025: income sources, assets and financial wellbeing

I would like to thank all the participants who took the time to do the survey and to write about their experiences.Many of the people who responded will have been involved in the study for years and years now.So my thanks go to them for sticking with it this far and hopefully continuing to take part in 2028.Help to get people to respond to the survey has come from many local voluntary sector infrastructure organisations and community foundations across the country by sending invitations to their lists of members or grantees, putting stories in their newsletters or promoting the study via social media.My thanks go to them for helping build the sample.In the development of new themes and questions for the survey in 2025, I would particularly like to thank Mark Pierce (formerly Community Foundation North East), Suzanne Perry (formerly Lloyds Bank Foundation England and Wales), Mark Freeman (Cambridge CVS), Cullagh Warnock (Millfield House Foundation), Natalie Zhivkova (WCVA) and Jo Curry (Sir James Knott Trust).Matt Roche (The Mercers' Company) closely read the final draft of the report and offered invaluable critical observations.I am enormously grateful to the organisations which have contributed to the cost of undertaking the study in 2025: Community Foundation North East