Sector Developments

A couple of international (English speaking) voluntary sector developments: From The Malta Independent: Enactment of legislation to strengthen the voluntary sector – “The National Council of Women welcomed the Voluntary Organisations Act, passed by the House of Representatives on 24 September.” This item is rather truncated and doesn’t explain much …

Radio 4′s new series of ‘Analysis’ kicked off yesterday evening with a programme called Changing Charities where Professor Alison Wolf of King’s College London asked: “Have we found a third way which offers the best of both public and private? Or just created a threat to charities’ treasured ability to …

Ed Miliband, Minister for the Third Sector, this week gave a lecture to NCVO in memory of Nicholas Hinton. He is very keen to hear sector comments. The lecture, ‘Changing lives, changing society’, explores the appropriate roles of the government and third sector, and argues against an “isolationist” model that …

It’s not as though there aren’t probably too many charity networks or support bodies out there already, but on OpenCharityBlog I’ve followed up a comment on The Observer’s pages asking about a network for kitchen table heroines’. Cristina Odone highlights in a short piece today the work done ‘around the …

I seem to be almost agreeing with the opinion pieces emanating from Luke FitzHerbert at Directory of Social Change these days, unlike when I worked alongside him there. In this week’s Third Sector, he asks how the sector can justify its tax breaks, when “too often” charities operate like businesses …

Here’s the start of an interesting post on YouthNet’s blog (4th May): “Should the local volunteering infrastructure be funded by national government? “On a day when turnout in local elections is expected to be below 40%, volunteering provides a good illustration of the tensions between national and local. “On the …