COVID-19 and VCSE organisations response

根据最近的一份政府报告（DCMS 06/05/2020），志愿社区和社会企业（VCSE）部门正在“为生存而战”，对其服务的需求增加，同时面临约43亿英镑的资金削减（2020年3月至5月），导致许多VCSE组织估计在“几周内”破产。正如报告所述：“社会距离使提供服务变得更加困难和昂贵。储备正在耗尽。尤其是规模较小的慈善机构，面临着即将关闭的风险。”该项目的核心思想是通过与DCMS的对话产生的，DCMS负责领导政府应对COVID-19对该行业的影响，并与该行业领先的基础设施组织NCVO共同设计。该项目有三个目的。首先，提供实时数据和学习，了解COVID-19如何影响整个行业，特别是不同组织因规模、结构和提供的服务而异。第二，提供有关组织如何应对COVID-19影响和应对的经验教训报告，特别是关注可以在英国推广的新的工作实践和创新。第三，提供见解，以帮助VCSE行业的长期弹性。项目团队带来了一个独特的研究人员联盟，专门研究VCSE领域，人力资源和创新，NCVO，他们通过他们的研究和政策团队和15,000名成员提供行业知识，指导和访问。产出包括VCSE脆弱性晴雨表（提供COVID-19对该部门影响的实时数据）、经验教训报告（使创新能够扩大规模）、最终项目报告和韧性工具包。

According to a recent government report (DCMS 06/05/2020) the Voluntary Community and SocialEnterprise (VCSE) sector is "fighting for survival", with increased demand for its services, whilstsimultaneously facing funding cuts estimated at £4.3bn (during March-May 2020), resulting inmany VCSEs organisations estimated to be insolvent 'within weeks'. As the report states:"Social distancing is making delivering services harder and more costly. Reserves are running out.Smaller charities, in particular, are at risk of imminent closure".The core ideas for this project emerged through dialogue with DCMS, who are leading thegovernment's response on how COVID-19 is impacting the sector, and co-designed with NCVO, thesector's leading infrastructure organisation. The project has three purposes. First, to provide realtimedata and learning on how COVID-19 is impacting the whole sector and, significantly, variesacross different organisations by size, structure and services offered. Second, to provide lessonslearnedreports about how organisations on the impacts and responses to COVID-19, particularlyfocusing on the new working-practices and innovations which can be scaled across the UK. Third,to provide insights to aid long-term the VCSE sector's resilience.The project team brings a unique alignment of researchers specialising in the VCSE sector, HR andinnovation, NCVO, who provide sector knowledge, guidance and access, through their researchand policy team and 15,000 members. The outputs are a VCSE vulnerability barometer, providingreal-time data of the impact COVID-19 on the sector, lessons-learned reports, enabling innovationsto be scaled, a final project report and toolkit for resilience.