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Charity analysis

In The little blue book NPC shares our approach to charity analysis. It highlights six key areas:

Activities: Do the charity's activities address a genuine need?
Results: Can it demonstrate results of what it has achieved?
Leadership: Do trustees and management provide high quality leadership?
People and resources: Does it use staff, volunteers and resources well?
Finances: Are the finances sound?
Ambition: Is it ambitious to solve social problems?

Instead of short, two-page charity recommendations we are now publishing some examples of NPC’s most recent charity analysis in full. These are intended to:

illustrate what a piece of detailed NPC analysis looks like;
help charities and funders see how analysis gives insight into effectiveness; and
act as charity case studies, sharing lessons about effectiveness.

All of NPC's charity analysis is presented to an external charity committee, made up of figures from the investment, grant-making and charity sector, which assesses and verifies our analysis. Learn how you can commission charity analysis from NPC.

Read examples of:

Innovation in a large charity: Barnardo’s Sexual Exploitation Services
An example of good governance: Thames Reach
A small charity achieving step change: Beat
A successful use of volunteers: Samaritans
A creative, flexible approach by a small charity: Quaker Social Action
Evaluating results data to improve services and share lessons: The Brandon Centre
Raising the professional standards of a sector: CAADA *
An excellent mentoring model: Chance UK
Making a service more efficient: The NSPCC and ChildLine
Optimising resources to achieve well-managed growth: IntoUniversity
Attracting interest in an unpopular issue: Lucy Faithfull Foundation *
A charity with excellent measurement systems: The Place2Be
A charity drawing on all available data to build best practice: Standing Together Against Domestic Violence
A strong approach to measuring impact in a small charity: Elmore Community Services
A responsive approach from an established charity: Edinburgh Cyrenians
A regional charity sharing best practice: St Basils
A national charity that embeds itself in local services: Fairbridge

Analysis of large and complex charities

As well as the examples above, NPC also carries out analysis on large and complex charities. Read NPC's detailed analysis of Barnardo's.

>>Read older examples of NPC's analysis

* NPC advised Lucy Faithfull Foundation in 2008, and is currently advising CAADA. See our conflict of interest policy.

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Ramez Sousou, Chairman of the Private Equity Foundation and Co-CEO of Towerbrook Capital Partners