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✨Where you can find PBE in 2025✨
There are lots of ways to keep up with our latest news, events and volunteer opportunities in the new year.
Newsletter: probonoeconomics.com/newslet…
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✨Where you can find PBE✨
There are lots of ways to keep up with our latest news, events, jobs and volunteer opportunities.
📨Newsletter: probonoeconomics.com/newslet…
🦋Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/probonoecon…… 💡LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/pro-bon…
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Disability benefits are more than a simple cash transfer to those who receive them. Our new report with @ProBonoEcon highlights why the government should not rush to any decision to reduce disability benefit claims.
👉Read the full report: z2k.org/more-than-money-the-…
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✨Where you can find PBE in 2025✨
There are lots of ways to keep up with our latest news, events and volunteer opportunities in the new year.
Newsletter: probonoeconomics.com/newslet…
Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/probonoecon…
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/pro-bon…
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📊 Could your charity benefit from free data support in 2025? Our Services team will find the perfect volunteer for you, matched based on their experience in sectors such as finance and economics, to solve your data challenges.
Find out more on Bluesky⬇️
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Did you miss our November newsletter?
Sign up for our next update, and catch up on previous editions here⬇️
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We've launched our first-ever ‘Low wellbeing in the UK’ report.
It highlights clear disparities across ethnicity, income, housing, and age, urging policymakers to make ending low wellbeing a national priority.
Find out more over on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/probonoecon…
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When govt is measuring the economic contribution of different sectors in national accounts, civil society is invisible.
PBE’s @Anoushkapbe and Jack Larkham set out how the UK might build a satellite account to make the sector's economic value visible⬇️
tinyurl.com/2xkutw2s
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Curious about what economists do, and how they can be helpful for small & medium sized charities?
Here's 5 things you need to know⬇️
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We're excited that our CEO @katieghose is speaking at the @ProBonoEcon Civil Alliance event as part of a panel discussion.
The panel will explore how to enrich the working relationship between civil society and civil service - a vital conversation for driving positive change.
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Thrilled to join @Steph_Peacock @DCMS and our sister council @WCVACymru at the @ProBonoEcon Civil Alliance event today to speak on the importance of collaboration between government and the charity sector.
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🔔A Civil Alliance begins shortly!
Join us on Bluesky and use #PBEEvents to take part in the conversation
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📊 Could your charity benefit from pro bono data support?
Our Services team will find the perfect volunteer for you, matched based on their experience in sectors such as finance and economics, to solve your data challenges.
Apply via our website:
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We're pleased to announce that @Steph_Peacock is delivering a keynote at our event for charity leaders and civil servants tomorrow.
Join us on our interactive platform from 11:15 am for livestreamed discussions, workshops and networking ⬇️
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📊Despite their vital importance, civil society and volunteering are invisible in UK economic data. Our new report, commissioned by @DCMS, outlines why creating a civil society satellite account matters and how it could be done.
Read our recommendations⬇️
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Want to influence the policy agenda to improve the wellbeing of society’s most vulnerable? Keen to collaborate & share your experiences with other charity & social enterprise leaders?
PBE is recruiting for a new Small Charities' Forum.
Apply here👇
probonoeconomics.com/small-c…
ALT A slide about the benefits for charities joining the Small Charities' Forum. A £300 annual contribution to your charity. Unique access to policymakers and influential stakeholders. Access to PBE economic and research services. Learning and development on key issues affecting charities. Invitations to PBE events.
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New PBE research finds 44% of charities identify fundraising as a critical skills gap on their board, and 39% highlight marketing and comms. Charities need support to address these shortages.
Read the barometer blog with @VCSEObservatory👇
probonoeconomics.com/taking-…
ALT A bar graph showing the most common skills gaps on boards, according to charities. Fundraising and income generation emerges as a critical gap in boards' skillsets.
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Matt Whittaker of @ProBonoEcon: Civil society is more valuable than we realise – and that’s holding it back civilsociety.co.uk/voices/ma…
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When govt is measuring the economic contribution of different sectors in national accounts, civil society is invisible.
PBE’s @Anoushkapbe and Jack Larkham set out how the UK might build a satellite account to make the sector's economic value visible⬇️
tinyurl.com/2xkutw2s
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Almost two-thirds (63%) of charities report board vacancies. Many organisations are now overly reliant on very small teams.
Read more in our new VCSE barometer blog with @VCSEObservatory
ow.ly/CsZ650U15tw
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