Giving Compass' Take:

• Dan Corry, Chief Executive of NPC, explains his predictions for the charity in the coming year, and what it will keep doing in 2019 to advance philanthropic pursuits.

• What are some major hurdles for funders in  the UK in the next year? How is NPC helping?

• Read more about NPC and how it uses impact data for decision making.

It is very hard to see 2019 as being a year that is likely to be full of promise and hope, even for a congenital optimist like myself.

It will undoubtedly be a year of uncertainty. It is unclear what will happen between Britain and the EU; we have the very real possibility of global trade wars and economic slowdown; political fighting across and within UK political parties, maybe with a change of Prime Minister; and we will probably face further bursts of erratic behaviour from an increasing number of populist and nationalist governments across the world.

As charities and funders, we will undoubtedly be involved, within the constraints that charitable status brings. NPC will certainly continue to highlight the way that these issues may affect our sector and its beneficiaries, and help authorities, charities and funders understand what they can do to help.

But as charities it is important that we keep focused on those aspects of our mission which don’t depend on the political climate.

In 2019 we also want to support charities and funders with more advanced thinking.

Many in the sector know they need to do more to be responsive to their beneficiaries. We will be following up our work on user voice and involvement with seminars open to all and hope to work on this in in particular sectors.

Measuring and using data properly is vital to improve the impact that we can all achieve, and we will continue our work to help of we are continuing to work on three long term initiatives to help the sector understand the impact they are making.

Read the full article about the year ahead for NPC by Dan Corry at NPC