This report presents summary findings from six surveys conducted between September 2022 and May 2024.
Discover the findings for yourself as you read and digest the document.
The same content has been prepared in two formats to aid accessibility. Please use whichever you are more comfortable with:
- Formatted pdf: Cost Pressures Survey Summary 2022-2024 (pdf 933KB)
- Plain text: Cost Pressures Survey Summary 2022 – 2024 (plain text google doc)
The cost pressures survey has served as a useful tool to highlight the financial pressures experienced by parts of the Third Sector in Leeds, largely due to escalating costs and reducing incomes.
Survey data helps us understand emerging and present challenges facing the Third Sector in Leeds and its ability to operate, including impacts on: staff, services, and organisational viability.
This is a key resources for the third sector and our statutory sector colleagues, alongside the State of the Sector report, and Third Sector Strategy and the ICB Position Statement.
We will be discussing key messages and what this means for the third sector in Leeds at our network meetings. Please use and reference the document with your commissioners and statutory funders and share with your teams as relevant.
Statement to partners: Help us to help you
We understand the financial picture across sectors, and nationally, is incredibly challenging. This means it’s more important than ever to work together to ensure all of our efforts are effective and benefit people and communities fairly.
This is not about asking, how can we do more with less – we are asking – how can we, collectively as a system, make a big enough shift to make a real difference?
Third sector organisations, like the NHS and Local Authority, do tremendous work but this is sometimes unseen, undervalued, or its positive impact is underestimated. We are confident that even in the challenging climate there are opportunities to do things better together. Our ask of you is to engage with the third sector and involve us in the development of sustainable and workable solutions which suit people and communities.
We encourage you to:
- Utilise the existing wealth of knowledge that is in the sector
- Invest in good relationships with third sector organisations
- Make connections, and join up siloed work
- Coproduce solutions
- Commit to initiatives/ interventions which are known be effective
- Be an ally to the third sector
- Remind yourself of the State of the Sector report, and Third Sector Strategy and choose priority areas which you can progress or engage with.
