Showing posts with label volunteers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label volunteers. Show all posts
Saturday, 27 June 2015

People working in the voluntary sector still don't get 'Big Society'

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**** I’ve lost count of the number of government initiatives and funding regimes that I’ve seen during my time in the voluntary sector....
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Saturday, 25 April 2015

In praise of the (election) workers

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The last few leaflets At the start of this seemingly interminable election campaign I was delivering 'In Touch' leaflets in Den...
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Sunday, 2 November 2014

The real voluntary sector - or the Big Society the sector's leaders want to kill off...

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**** The Community Development Foundation has published a report looking at what it calls the 'community sector'. This is the myr...
Wednesday, 23 November 2011

No, sir, councillors are not part of the voluntary sector

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*** Mind you it rather explains a lot about the attitude of the civil service to local government. One mostly of ignorance: Speaking at...
Wednesday, 26 October 2011

...and how much is down to state funding then?

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**** The NCVO are reporting a 40% increase in the number of people employed by "charities" over the past decade: The number o...
Thursday, 14 July 2011

Why doesn't the "voluntary sector" want volunteers?

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**** Yesterday I went to a particularly untidy briefing on the changes and developments within the health service. Amongst general moani...
Sunday, 21 November 2010

Why on earth to we think bureaucrats will ever understand Big Society?

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A great deal of cynicism and vast acres of misinformation accompanies the idea of the ‘Big Society’. Here’s the Guardian : Is it time to sa...
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Friday, 11 September 2009

CRB checks: some perspective please!

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Yesterday evening was spent with my brother and his wife, Kaye in Weston-super-mare. Kaye is a police officer specialising in child protecti...