Distribution of staff, volunteers and trustees, volunteer hours, and year-on-year direction among organisations that answered both 2024 and 2025.
1,122
Organisations
in this view
17%
FTE up YoY
paired orgs with higher permanent FTE
46%
Volunteers up YoY
paired orgs with more volunteers
41%
Vol hours up YoY
paired orgs with more volunteer hours
Count ranges are provisional pending confirmation. YoY charts only include organisations with values in both years.
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.
