Second report from Third Sector Trends in England and Wales 2025: People, work, ambition and impact is out today. www.stchads.ac.uk/research/thi... @ncvo.bsky.social @pbe.co.uk @charitycomms.bsky.social @acevo.bsky.social

The first report from Third Sector Trends in England and Wales 2025 is out today. You can find it here: www.stchads.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Thank you to the 8,680 voluntary organisations which took part in Third Sector Trends in England and Wales 2025. Results will start being published in late October. @ncvo.bsky.social @acevo.bsky.social @pbe.co.uk @ukcf.bsky.social @lbfew.bsky.social

Third Sector Trends in England and Wales' survey will close on 30th September (midnight). We have over 8,625 responses so far. Please take part: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/durham/thi... @ncvo.bsky.social @acevo.bsky.social @pbe.co.uk @ukcf.bsky.social @lbfew.bsky.social @ukcf.bsky.social

As we enter Small Charities Week, #thirdsectortrends in England and Wales 2025 has just passed the 5,000 mark. Thank you! Please encourage others to take part: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/durham/thi...

Third Sector Trends is back in the North East! This major survey helps build a picture of how local voluntary and community organisations are doing. It’s quick, confidential and only happens every 3 years. 🔗 Have your say: https://ow.ly/OQIS50W01gx #ThirdSectorTrends #VCSE

National Library of Scotland

Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).

Fawning photography... Even sycophants can get it right but at what reputational/ethical cost? www.theguardian.com/world/galler...

Film star Albert Finney, a bookmaker’s son from Salford, died #OTD 2019, aged 82. Here he is at his dad's betting shop, Broughton Road, Salford, 1970s.

Interesting. www.economist.com/obituary/202...

Nelson, Lancashire, 1960, by John Bulmer (b.1938).

Storm damage and sturdier than you'd expect.

Henri Bergson was once the world’s most famous philosopher www.economist.com/culture/2025... From The Economist

Learning to fake it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Using camouflage to make an entrance. Interesting notion. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024...

Here's one to fill your day. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

An idiot, certainly... Not sure about the useful part... as his handler would now attest surely? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

For once, a little hope in the world. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

A man of the people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

I started reading this (and Marina Hyde is a great writer who nearly always pulls me through)... But you what? I'm just glad to see the back of him and his remorseless efforts to show none at all. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Northern Echo rightly taking a chunk of the praise for this deal. www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business2/24...

The Tweed never looks the same. And that's a good thing.

BREAKING: ageing male social policy professors back in fashion.

Understand South Korea, a success story with a dark side www.economist.com/the-economis... From The Economist

Interesting. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

"After decades of making unscientific claims to deter baby-making—such as that pregnancy reduces a woman’s intelligence—the authorities are arguing the opposite." www.economist.com/china/2024/1...

Translation from Wallace's dream of a return to the land-of-the-archetypal-sexist-seventies-greengrocer... "what's the matter with you, darlin', can't you take a joke?" www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Peterborough Cathedral

Wall plaque, Hull.

Tynemouth Station on market day.

The Stump, Boston.

Cinema, tucked away in Faversham, Kent.

An astonishing piece of work. Notre Dame cathedral has been transformed. Imagine what a 12th Century peasant would have thought?

Sandwich, Kent.

Little Germany, Bradford.

Norwich.

Leicester

Cromer, Norfolk.

Canterbury.

Lincoln Cathedral lit up in the fog last night. #architecture #lincoln #photography

Shiny engine, York.

Alnmouth, Northumberland.

Seen a lot of planters in public spaces this year. Many very good. But #Perth is the WINNER!

Ludlow.