Share Your AI Views & Support Needs, Via CAST’s New Survey

The annual AI survey from CAST (the charity that helps UK charities use digital for social good) is now live! For the third year running, CAST is gathering AI views, experiences and needs from across the sector, in order to help shape the most relevant and useful support – and influence the wider sector response. Your insights make a real difference: the results of previous surveys have led CAST to develop a range of support resources, including their AI self-serve courses, AI experiments library and AI hub. Please do take ten minutes to complete the anonymous survey as soon as you can: although it remains open until February, CAST will be reviewing responses throughout – so early participation will help shape and inform activities in real time. 

Please complete the anonymous survey here: https://wearecast.typeform.com/ai-survey-2026. 

 

 

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Chancellor of the Exchequer: Autumn Budget 2025

 

The Charity Finance Group is undertaking a short survey to understand how charities currently use salary sacrifice arrangements, particularly for pension contributions. This information is critically important because there are strong indications that the Chancellor may announce a cap of £2,000 per year on salary sacrifice contributions for pensions in the upcoming Autumn Budget. Complete the survey here.

 

Ahead of the Autumn Budget set to be published at the end of the month, the Civil Society Group, which includes DSC, has written to the government on behalf of charities and community organisations across the UK. Take a look at what we said here.

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Charity Digital Survey

Established in 2001, Charity Digital’s purpose is to improve digital awareness and access across the charity sector. Last year, their registered charity helped more than 600,000 charity professionals to learn about all things digital, source discounted and donated tech, and improve digital skills through free articles, training, and events. By completing this 5-minute survey, you will help them to develop better digital services for the sector.

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Please Tell us About Your Experience of Using Pharmacies in H&F

On behalf of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, Healthy Dialogues are undertaking a Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment, and we want to hear about your experiences and views around your local pharmacies.

Your responses will help to inform decisions on future applications for new pharmacies, or considerations for changes or adaptations at your current pharmacy. Your input will help to shape the future of pharmacy services in your area.

We invite you to participate in this survey about how you use your pharmacy services.

Have your say

Hammersmith & Fulham Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment Public Engagement Questionnaire

The consultation will close at 5pm on 22 September 2025

 
 
 
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Have Your Say on a New Approach to Procurement

NCVO are working to improve the commissioning and procurement environment for charities, so they can deliver lasting, sustainable impact. The Government has recently launched a consultation to reform public procurement, and your input is crucial. Fill in the survey here.

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Centering Voices of Marginalised Communities in London’s Crisis Response

We are excited to announce that London Resilience has commissioned Protection Approaches to establish a new Equalities Partnership within the London Resilience Forum.

This partnership will provide a space for equity-focused and equality-led organisations to shape how London plans for and responds to emergencies and crises in a manner that centres the perspectives and needs of various marginalised communities in London.

Emergencies – from the COVID-19 pandemic to flooding, terror incidents, fire, or the cost-of-living crisis – do not affect all communities equally. People already facing structural inequality often face the greatest harms. The Equalities Partnership will work to ensure that community expertise informs city-wide emergency planning, and that equity organisations are supported as strategic partners in building a more resilient London.

If your group works primarily with marginalised communities, communities who face additional barriers at times of crisis, or individuals with protected characteristics as defined in the Equalities Act, you can feed into what the Equalities Partnership will look like and how it will work.

You can share your perspective with the Protection Approaches team by:

✍🏼 Responding to this questionnaire

💬 Scheduling a chat with their team by emailing farida.mostafa@protectionapproaches.org

📧 Sharing your thoughts via email at farida.mostafa@protectionapproaches.org

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Improving Planned Care & Reducing NHS Waiting Times in North West London

Have you had a positive or negative experience with planned NHS treatment or surgery in north west London? This spring, the NHS is talking to residents about ways it can improve care, make it fairer for all and reduce waiting times for non-emergency healthcare in our part of the capital.

How you can get involved:

  1. Please read a short information paper which sets out the challenges and our aims to improve planned care. Visit nwlondonicb.nhs.uk/plannedcare
  2. Complete the survey – which will take 5-10 minutes: Planned care survey | NW London NHS ICS
  3. Send any other comments to communications.nwl@nhs.netor in writing to FREEPOST, Healthier North West London
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VCSE Barometer Survey Wave 9 Communications Materials

The VCSE Data and Insights Observatory is asking for contributions to the VCSE Barometer Survey, running for three weeks from Wednesday 22 January to Wednesday 12 February. It includes a topical set of questions about the financial outlook for the VCSE sector and the impact of upcoming rises in National Living Wage and Employer National Insurance contributions. This survey will help shape the policy landscape for the charity sector, have your say here.

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New AI Survey

CAST (a charity which helps UK charities use digital for social good) is running a sector-wide AI survey, in order to understand what has changed over the past year – and what’s needed right now. If you work for a charity or social impact organisation, please take 12 minutes to fill in the anonymous survey, and share not just how you feel about AI, but what you really need: what would make your work life easier; what support would be useful; what would you wish for in an ideal world?

Fill in the AI survey here – and please do share the link with colleagues and friends!

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Charity Excellence – Good Grant Makers Guide

The workload in submitting multiple funding bids is now a major problem, so we’re going to create a Good Grant Makers Guide of those that make it easiest and also identify ways funders can make applications less onerous. Make your voice heard by completing our short survey, thank you.  

Feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested in completing it.  Anyone that adds their e mail, will be sent the results.

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