Supporters of Small Charity Week 2024 are aiming to begin a national conversation about the issues facing charities, they have said.

In a post on the Small Charity Week website they said that although the Small Charity Week 2023 was "hugely successful", more was needed for 2024.

"The last year has seen things get even worse for small charities, rather than better. We need to come together to address this. Small charities make up 97% of the sector. We ARE the sector. But we are facing unique problems, and many are on a knife edge in terms of staying open," supporters Wayne Murray and Vic Hancock Fell said in the post.

The week will run from 24-28 June and will include workshops, seminars and discussions from a multitude of organisations within, and outside, the sector.

However, this year the big aim is to "light a spark that will start a national conversation around the issues facing charities"

"We need to engage the public at scale in not only the injustices charities face, but also that we have the ability to both highlight it, and to collectively change it," the post said.

"Success will not come overnight, or even this year, but part of the focus for Small Charity Week going forward must be to constantly push the issues into the mainstream. Every year we will push harder and further. Every year we will make progress. Every year we will shift power."

The post urges every person, charity and organisation to be involved, with more information available in the coming weeks.

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