A lot of organisations have agreed to promote #thirdsectortrends in Wales – and there’s time yet to get involved.

There is lots of support and encouragement from the Welsh Government, the Wales Community Foundation, the National Lottery in Wales and WCVA to help build the sample – but it is local CVSs and CVCs that can really bring up the numbers.

As you can see in the graph below, there have been 286 responses so far in Wales. That’s actually quite good – a response rate of 5.7% which is a lot higher than most areas (e.g. South East 3.7% and London 2.2%! – but there are a lot more charities in those areas).

But Wales looks out of balance with most English regions – so the numbers need to reach up to at least 500 to do credible comparisons.

But because there are fewer registered charities in Wales – there are not as many responses.