Tony Chapman
@tonychapmanuk.bsky.social
Sociologist working on #thirdsectortrends at St Chad's College, Durham University. Also interested in towns and how social relationships play out at home, work, civil society, film & fiction.
The first report from Third Sector Trends in England and Wales 2025 is out today. You can find it here: www.stchads.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
October 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The first report from Third Sector Trends in England and Wales 2025 is out today. You can find it here: www.stchads.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Thank you to the 8,680 voluntary organisations which took part in Third Sector Trends in England and Wales 2025. Results will start being published in late October. @ncvo.bsky.social @acevo.bsky.social @pbe.co.uk @ukcf.bsky.social @lbfew.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Thank you to the 8,680 voluntary organisations which took part in Third Sector Trends in England and Wales 2025. Results will start being published in late October. @ncvo.bsky.social @acevo.bsky.social @pbe.co.uk @ukcf.bsky.social @lbfew.bsky.social
Third Sector Trends in England and Wales' survey will close on 30th September (midnight). We have over 8,625 responses so far. Please take part: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/durham/thi... @ncvo.bsky.social @acevo.bsky.social @pbe.co.uk @ukcf.bsky.social @lbfew.bsky.social @ukcf.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Third Sector Trends in England and Wales' survey will close on 30th September (midnight). We have over 8,625 responses so far. Please take part: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/durham/thi... @ncvo.bsky.social @acevo.bsky.social @pbe.co.uk @ukcf.bsky.social @lbfew.bsky.social @ukcf.bsky.social
As we enter Small Charities Week, #thirdsectortrends in England and Wales 2025 has just passed the 5,000 mark. Thank you! Please encourage others to take part:
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/durham/thi...
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/durham/thi...
June 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
As we enter Small Charities Week, #thirdsectortrends in England and Wales 2025 has just passed the 5,000 mark. Thank you! Please encourage others to take part:
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/durham/thi...
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/durham/thi...
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Third Sector Trends is back in the North East!
This major survey helps build a picture of how local voluntary and community organisations are doing. It’s quick, confidential and only happens every 3 years.
🔗 Have your say: https://ow.ly/OQIS50W01gx
#ThirdSectorTrends #VCSE
This major survey helps build a picture of how local voluntary and community organisations are doing. It’s quick, confidential and only happens every 3 years.
🔗 Have your say: https://ow.ly/OQIS50W01gx
#ThirdSectorTrends #VCSE
June 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Third Sector Trends is back in the North East!
This major survey helps build a picture of how local voluntary and community organisations are doing. It’s quick, confidential and only happens every 3 years.
🔗 Have your say: https://ow.ly/OQIS50W01gx
#ThirdSectorTrends #VCSE
This major survey helps build a picture of how local voluntary and community organisations are doing. It’s quick, confidential and only happens every 3 years.
🔗 Have your say: https://ow.ly/OQIS50W01gx
#ThirdSectorTrends #VCSE
National Library of Scotland
February 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
National Library of Scotland
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Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).
February 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).
Fawning photography... Even sycophants can get it right but at what reputational/ethical cost?
www.theguardian.com/world/galler...
www.theguardian.com/world/galler...
The Aga Khan – a life in pictures
Prince Karim al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan and spiritual leader of the world’s Shia Ismaili Muslim sect, has died
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Fawning photography... Even sycophants can get it right but at what reputational/ethical cost?
www.theguardian.com/world/galler...
www.theguardian.com/world/galler...
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Film star Albert Finney, a bookmaker’s son from Salford, died #OTD 2019, aged 82. Here he is at his dad's betting shop, Broughton Road, Salford, 1970s.
February 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Film star Albert Finney, a bookmaker’s son from Salford, died #OTD 2019, aged 82. Here he is at his dad's betting shop, Broughton Road, Salford, 1970s.
Interesting. www.economist.com/obituary/202...
Marianne Faithfull battled labels all her life
The singer and icon of the 1960s died on January 30th, aged 78
www.economist.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Interesting. www.economist.com/obituary/202...
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Nelson, Lancashire, 1960, by John Bulmer (b.1938).
February 5, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Nelson, Lancashire, 1960, by John Bulmer (b.1938).
Storm damage and sturdier than you'd expect.
January 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Storm damage and sturdier than you'd expect.
Henri Bergson was once the world’s most famous philosopher
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
From The Economist
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
From The Economist
Henri Bergson was once the world’s most famous philosopher
He sought to reconcile science and metaphysics
www.economist.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Henri Bergson was once the world’s most famous philosopher
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
From The Economist
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
From The Economist
Learning to fake it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘She would have been in awe of him’: how Laurence Olivier gave Margaret Thatcher private seduction lessons
New drama, When Maggie Met Larry, reveals exactly how the world’s most famous actor coached the fledgling Iron Lady
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Learning to fake it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
January 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
An idiot, certainly... Not sure about the useful part... as his handler would now attest surely?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Prince Andrew may have been a victim of Chairman Mao’s ‘magic weapon’ | Isabel Hilton
The United Front Work Department aims to befriend, bribe and seduce ‘useful idiots’. Was Andrew caught up in its net?
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2024 at 7:37 PM
An idiot, certainly... Not sure about the useful part... as his handler would now attest surely?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
For once, a little hope in the world. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
South Korea's president impeached by parliament after mass protests over short-lived martial law
Yoon Suk Yeol will be immediately suspended from office and the prime minister will serve as acting president.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 14, 2024 at 8:37 AM
For once, a little hope in the world. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
A man of the people.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Trump assembling US cabinet of billionaires worth combined $340bn
President-elect tapping mega-rich backers for positions that will give them power to cut spending on public services
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 3:35 PM
A man of the people.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
I started reading this (and Marina Hyde is a great writer who nearly always pulls me through)... But you what? I'm just glad to see the back of him and his remorseless efforts to show none at all.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Farewell, then, Justin Welby. Good to see that you have already forgiven yourself | Marina Hyde
The archbishop of Banterbury could have used his speech to express remorse to victims of abuse. But then there wouldn’t have been any room for lolz, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 3:31 PM
I started reading this (and Marina Hyde is a great writer who nearly always pulls me through)... But you what? I'm just glad to see the back of him and his remorseless efforts to show none at all.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Northern Echo rightly taking a chunk of the praise for this deal.
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business2/24...
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business2/24...
Echo comment: The power of local journalism delivers for Hitachi again
Fourteen years after one of the most successful campaigns The Northern Echo has ever run, we have once again shown the power of local journalism and…
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk
December 5, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Northern Echo rightly taking a chunk of the praise for this deal.
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business2/24...
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/business2/24...