Cuts and closures: how are charities being affected?

The National Council for Voluntary Organisations is asking its members to assess the impact of spending cuts on the voluntary and community sector. Since the government announced an initial £6bn package of cuts back in May, the organisation has been running a crowdsourcing exercise to gather data on cuts. By entering their details in a survery form, members and other voluntary and community organisations have been able to share their experience of cuts. But the exercise isn't just about NCVO gathering intelligence on the scale of the cuts . It wants this vital data to be available to everyone. That is why it is sharing the spreadsheet below which shows all the results to date. It starts to paint a picture of where cuts are being most keenly felt - both geographically and the type of services delivered by voluntary organisitons that are being axed or our threatened with closure. Download the data • DATA: download the full spreadsheet World government data • Search the world's government with our gateway Can you do something with this data? Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at [email protected] • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter