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Is NCVO aiming too high on volunteering? 3

24 Feb 2010 | Gareth Jones

NCVO launched its election manifesto at its annual conference yesterday, and the call for all workers to be given five days paid time off in order to volunteer seems rather unrealistic.

Is NCVO aiming too high on volunteering?

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Big society blog: Quango quango 8

Finance | Gordon Hunter
26 Jul 2010

Topics: Statutory funding | Funding

Gordon Hunter reveals the vastness of the quango pot as he asks: what could you do with the money at grassroots level?

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Come clean on expenses 2

Governance | Simon Hebditch
9 Jun 2009

Topics: Expenses | Accountability and transparency

It was only a matter of time before someone picked up on expenses in the charity sector.

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Feeble, wretched and hopeless 2

Finance | Jeremy Swain
5 Aug 2009

There is little about the subject of homelessness which raises the spirit. The lives of homeless people are frequently bleak, often mundane; short on glamour. Consequently, programmes about the homeless...

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Lies, damned lies and statistics!! 2

Finance | David Davison
23 Mar 2010

Topics: Accountability and transparency

David Davison shows why we should not take statistics at face value.

If Central Government could place more pressure on Local Councils to, for example, implement individual budgets faster by setting aggressive targets and policing them, then this would go a long way to achieving what all of us in the third sector want: namely, efficiently delivered services that users and their families actually want.

» Could personalisation be a way of quantifying social impact?

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It's a mad, mad world!! 2

Finance | David Davison
31 Mar 2010

Topics: Law

David Davison is stunned by the arrogance of the plaintiffs and the stupidity of the jurors in this year's infamous 'Stella Awards'.

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Gay people start out as children too 2

Governance | Daniel Phelan
14 Apr 2010

Topics: Law

Society will make the final decision on Catholic Care discrimination, says Daniel Phelan.

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How to mount a defence against a tabloid press obsessed with high pay 2

Governance | Tania Mason
16 Jul 2010

Topics: Remuneration | Crisis management

Pay is the new expenses. Tania Mason offers three key messages charities could use when the media puts the sector in the spotlight in its campaign against high pay.

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How will charities defend pension shortfalls to supporters? 2

Finance | Vibeka Mair
28 Jul 2010

Topics: Accountability and transparency | Pensions

As the Big Society brings more attention to the voluntary sector, charities will face more scrutiny on their finances, how will they excuse potential pension deficits asks Vibeka Mair.

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