Sufficient volunteers, recruitment and retention difficulties for staff, volunteers and trustees, volunteer support and barriers, and the impact of shortages.
98%
Enough volunteers
agree they currently have enough
29%
Staff recruit difficulty
difficulty recruiting staff
1,122
Organisations
in this view
1,122
Respondents
current filter set
How to use this dashboard
What you’re looking at
This is the State of The Sector dashboard for Greater Manchester,
built by the VCSE Observatory
for Greater Manchester State of The Sector.
Each section summarises survey responses from local VCSE organisations —
headline indicators first, then charts.
Area filter
This is the Greater Manchester–wide dashboard — Area starts with no borough filter (all respondents).
You can narrow to one or more boroughs, and combine with size, legal form and other filters.
Within a filter, selecting several options means “any of these”. Across filters, selections combine (AND).
If a combination leaves fewer than 10 organisations, it won’t apply —
charts fall back to all GM organisations.
Moving around
Use the sidebar (or the menu button on a phone) to switch sections.
Population, health & socioeconomic context — external context (coming soon).
Headline findings — modelled scale & contribution, and what organisations told us.
Role in communities — what they do, where they operate, who they support, inclusion.
Staff, Volunteers & Trustees — workforce snapshot, good work, recruitment.
