Review of local civil society and community data

A review of voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector and community-level datasets, and interviews with VCSE stakeholders and data experts.

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Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Published

11 July 2025

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Review of local civil society and community data: summary report

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Review of local civil society and community data: data sources

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DCMS' Civil Society and Youth (CSY) directorate commissioned Ipsos UK, the University of the West of Scotland and the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) to conduct a review of civil society and community data, with a focus on geographical data.

This review aims to enhance CSY's approach to local data, supporting wider work to identify where local needs are greatest, better target place-based programmes and more accurately assess geographical variation and change over time.

The outputs of the review include a short report presenting insights from an assessment of 45 civil society and community data sources and 17 interviews with data and sector experts; together with a summary of the datasets included in the review.