It's time to stop relying mainly on opinion

By Nick Seddon, Third Sector, 11 July 2007

Analysis of the voluntary sector has long been hampered by a poor evidence base, writes Nick Seddon, and it's about time we got the basic boring stuff right.

For most of us, most of the time, talking about the third sector involves pointing to details of an immense landscape that few of us even vaguely know our way around. Not that this is surprising. To put it bluntly, no one can say exactly how many charities there are...

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