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What resources do you need to make your organisation stronger and more effective?
The Commission on Unclaimed Assets has been set up to consult and make proposals on how best to use funds left dormant for long periods of time in people’s bank accounts. The sums involved could eventually exceed £600m.
In its initial report, the commission proposed major long term investment in the third sector.
To support these proposals, we now need to know as much as possible about the third sector, its current issues and likely future funding needs.
We have therefore designed this questionnaire to allow your organisation to feed directly into the final priorities that are set.
We would thus be very grateful if you or another senior employee could take the time to fill the form in and send it back to us.
Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey!
The more responses we get, the more likely you will be to secure the funding and support, you need in the future.
All respondents will be entered into a prize draw for a free one day consultancy from city and third sector experts to support your organisation in accessing current funding and finance opportunities.
If you wish to be entered for the prize draw, please ensure that you enter your contact details at the end of the page.
All responses will be treated in the strictest confidence: no individual respondent or organisation will be identified in any dissemination or report that utilises the data from this exercise
Feel free to email any queries or comments to
Matthew.Pike@unclaimedassets.org.uk
Matthew Pike, Commission on Unclaimed Assets, 31 Jewry Street, London EC3N 2EY.
Your Organisation:
Q1. What is your organisation's name? *
Q2. What is your organisation's Post Code?
Q3. What is your charity registration number(if appropiate)
Q4. How old is your organisation? (number of years)
Q5. What is the legal status of your organisation?
Registered charity
Unconstituted group
Industrail and Provident Society
Community Interest Company
Company Limited by Guarantee
Limited Liability Partnership
Small constituted group
Q6. What is the turnover of your organisation?
Less than 10k
10k to 100k
100k to 1m
1m to 5m
More than 5m
Q7. How many staff does your organisation employ?
None
One
Fewer than five
Five to fifty
More than 50
Q8. How much of a surplus/profit did you make in the last financial year(2005-6)?
Deficit
Less than 10,000
10,000-30,000
30,000-100,000
100,000-250,000
Above 250,000
Q9. What is the total approximate value of any assets you own, including reserves, land and building?
None
Less than 100,00
1-5m
Less than 10,000
100,000-1m
Above 5m
Q10. What are the most important sectors that your organisation operates in? (Please tick no more than three boxes)
Housing/ accommodation
Young People
Enviroment/recycling
Childcare
Old People
Minority Ethnic Communities
Community Regeneration
Education
Transport
Learning
Crime
Faith Communities
Health
Special Needs
Information and Advice
Finance
Culture and Sport
Care services
Other
(Please Specify)
Instructions for completing the questionnaire
The questions that follow ask you to rate a series of statements on a scale of 1 to 7, with opposing views at either end of the scale.
For example, the first question is as follows:
Our organisation has a very clear and explicit statement of vision or organisational direction
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Our organisation does not have a clear statement of vision or organisational direction
If you agree very strongly with the statement on the left, please circle the ‘1’. If you agree very strongly with the statement on the right, please circle the ‘7’. Numbers 2 to 6 should be used to indicate a view somewhere between the two opposite positions. For instance, if you think that both statements are equally true in your organisation, please circle the ‘4’.
If you do not know the answer to a question, please leave that particular question blank.
If you feel that the survey could be answered by other colleagues in your organisation with relevant knowledge and experience of the issues then please feel free to circulate it to them, or to send an email to matthew.pike@unclaimedassets.org.uk and extra copies will be provided directly to them.
Q11.Organisational Capacity
In this section we are enquiring about your organisation’s capacity – covering staffing, systems, policies and behaviours that combine to support high quality delivery.
Our organisation has a very clear and explicit statement of vision or organisational direction
1
2
3
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5
6
7
Our organisation does not have a clear statement of vision or organisational direction
Our organisation's board has a strong common direction and good team working
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Our organisation's board often has divergent view on direction and has poor working relation
Our board actively reviews the new oppurtunities available to it
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Our board normally take reactive approach to events
Our organisation has a positive and healthy attitude to risk
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Our organisation has a negative attitude to risk
Our organisation regulary reviews the risk it is exposed to and implements appropiate responses
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Our organisation never reviews the risk it faces
Our organisation regularly measures and reviews performance
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Our organisation never reviews performance
Our organisation is able to measure and analyse the impact that it makes
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Our organisation is unable to demonstrate the impact that it produces
Our organisation has complement finance staff who provide regular and accurate reports
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
We have no specialist finance staff and struggle to report the finances of our organisation
Our organisation carries out a strategic review of financial performance on a regular basis
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Our organisation does not review finances at a strategic level
Q12.Access to resources
In this section we are enquiring into your organisation’s access to resources.
We make a distinction between:
access to revenue streams
, such as grants, contracts and purchases of services, that cover the costs of the activities you provide,
and
investment
(including some grants and other forms of finance including loans) that allows your organisation to grow and change.
Our level to access to revenue streams is at least as good as organisations in the public and private sector
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
We struggle to access few if any revenue streams
Our main revenue streams are secure for the next five years
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Our revenue streams are completely insecure
We expect our revenue to grow greatly over the next five years
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
We expect our revenue to fall significantly over the next five years
The funding streams we benefit from are simple and easy to use
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
The funding streams we access are complex and burdensome
Our organisation is aware of the different financing options available to it, such as loans, equity, quasi equity and lease financing
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Our organisation is completely unaware of the financing options available to it
Our organisation is very likely to exploait different forms of financing over the next three years
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Our organisation will never consider using forms of finance other than grants
Q13.Organisational Culture
Below you will find three statements about how the culture of your organisation. We would like to know which statements most closely reflect the values of your organisation.
Please list the three statements in order, with 1 representing the closest fit with your organisation and 3 the least close fit.
For my organisation:
We are focussed, above all, on changing other people's policies and behaviours
1
2
3
We don't take any risks that might put the work and values of the organisation in danger
1
2
3
We seek to be as professional and entrepreneurial as possible
1
2
3
Q14.Your need for future
In this final section below we want to hear about your funding priorities for the future.
What are the main activities to strengthen your organisation that you envisage over the coming three years? Please do
not
include ongoing revenue funding of existing activities or the costs of delivering specific services or activities.
Please select one of the following options for each of up to FIVE PRIORITIES and
list how much money you might need for each one.
Possible optionsOthers-please specify
Please indicate the options that are your five highest priorities(1-highest,through to 5= fifth highest)Others-please specify
How much money will you need to pusue this option(sterling)?Others-please specify
Develop a new product or service
Select
1
2
3
4
5
£
Purchase small capital items e.g. computers, office equipment, cars, vans etc
Select
1
2
3
4
5
£
Undertake feasiblity studies/business plans
Select
1
2
3
4
5
£
Renovate or buy land and buildings
Select
1
2
3
4
5
£
Cover any initial revenue costs that may result from developing a new income generating avtivity
Select
1
2
3
4
5
£
Deal with short term difficulties in cash flow
Select
1
2
3
4
5
£
Reduce costs of insurance
Select
1
2
3
4
5
£
Training/re-training of staff
Select
1
2
3
4
5
£
Impact measurement
Select
1
2
3
4
5
£
Consultancy support-who may be used to undertake feasibilty studies, help write business plans etc
Select
1
2
3
4
5
£
Others-please specify
Select
1
2
3
4
5
Others-please specify
Select
1
2
3
4
5
Others-please specify
Select
1
2
3
4
5
Thank you for taking the time to participate in this study !
Contact Details
Contact email address
*
We hope to select respondents for further research in this area.
Are you willing to be contacted again in the future?
Yes
No
