VS6 Impact of COVID-19 on VCFSE sectors in LCR Survey Report

The current Covid-19 pandemic has forced the voluntary sector to face new and unprecedented challenges. With this is mind, VS6 partners agreed that we needed to review and better understand how the pandemic has affected our voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sectors across the Liverpool City Region, in order to have a more thorough, data driven understanding of the impact. 

 Each CVS across the region designed and published their own surveys and invited local VCFSE organisations in their respective areas to complete in order to evidence the impact on the sector. The future intention is therefore to develop reccomendations for policy making and the sectors essential role in the COVID recovery response. 

The data was collected between March and June 2020 and reflects the experiences of what is deemed the “first wave” of the coronavirus. 356 responses were collected across all six boroughs of the Liverpool City Region: Liverpool, St Helens, Knowsley, Halton, Wirral and Sefton. The findings from each survey were provided to VS6, and this report outlines the collective data and findings from the surveys across the Liverpool City Region. 

The full report can be found here.

The summary report of the collective impact of COVID across the VCFSE in the region, provides a good foundation and source of information for building a picture of how the sector has been impacted since the pandemic began; it contains some insightful information for use in future VS6 work and conversations. 

As we are now currently in a second period of rising cases and restrictions, VS6 will look at how we can engage with the VCFSE sector again to see the longer-term impacts of the pandemic on the sector. More information on this will follow. 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our VS6 Policy and Research Officer, Laura Tilston: laura.tilston@vsnw.org.uk