Climate change: take our climate change survey

Addressing climate change is an urgent matter in 2023. As the UN points out, “climate change can affect our health, ability to grow food, housing, safety and work”, with increasing global temperatures bringing about floods, droughts, storms, wildfires, decreasing biodiversity, and much more. 

Charities are uniquely positioned to be an ethical voice in society, without politics or agenda. They are well-versed in shining a light on urgent causes, creating campaigns, and getting conversations started around issues that affect them.  

Climate change affects everyone. It is no longer an issue that can be addressed by climate change charities only. It is time for the charity sector as a whole to take bold steps towards addressing climate change and embracing environmental sustainability. We can lead by example, make it impossible for other industries to ignore, and make sure that sustainability becomes an important part of decision-making going forward. 

Take the survey

To better understand our next steps, we want to know more about where we are now. Just as Charity Digital continues to champion the use of digital in the charity sector, and the vast advantages it can bring, we want to increase awareness of its impact on the climate crisis, both how it can help and how it harms. We want to reach out to charities across the UK to find out how we can work together to protect the planet.  

That’s why Charity Digital has launched a new survey, ‘Climate change in the UK charity sector’, to find out more about our attitudes towards climate change and how we are responding to it. 

The survey covers five key themes, on everything from leadership to workplace sustainability, and asks charities about the areas where they could become more sustainable. We ask charities whether climate change is a concern for them in 2023 and if they feel empowered to act. We ask whether digital has made a difference to their environmental sustainability efforts and if they are aware of the different ways it can. 

The survey, which takes around 10 minutes to complete, will be instrumental in Charity Digital’s Climate Action campaign, aimed at improving sustainability in the charity sector. The findings will be published anonymously in a report in the Spring and will ultimately help us identify further steps charities can take to tackle climate change in the future. 

Help us by taking the climate change survey, click below.