Cabinet Office written question – answered at on 17 March 2011.
holding answer
The Department does not hold data on the number of charities and operational charities with two or more employees in receipt of funding from the public purse. Data from the National Council for Voluntary Organisations' Civil Society Almanac 2010 estimates that 22% of general charities receive income from statutory sources in the form of grants or contracts; however this data is not broken down by number of employees.
Survey estimates for the wider voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector are available through the National Survey of Third Sector Organisations. These estimates are based on a sample response from a range of sector organisations and as such are not comparable to NCVO figures on general charities only. Data from the 2008 Survey, re-analysed by the Third Sector Research Centre, are as follows:
Number of staff (FTEs) | Proportion of VCSE organisations in receipt of public funds (grant and contract income) (estimated) |
No FTE | 22 |
1 | 39 |
2 | 45 |
3 to 5 | 59 |
6 to 10 | 69 |
11 to 30 | 71 |
31 to 100 | 74 |
101 plus | 75 |
No answer | n/a |
Total | 36 |
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No0 people think not
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