Charities often deliver services through funding agreements with a local authority, NHS Primary Care Trust or even a government department.
Though still a relatively new phenomenon, encouragement from government has made public service delivery and reform an increasingly common activity for charities.
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Many voluntary adoption agencies are worried they will have to close down as a new report reveals that a fractured relationship with local authorities is resulting in fewer contracts and fewer children being placed in adopted families.
Conservative MP Oliver Letwin has said the Tories will ask the voluntary sector to go beyond its current capacity if it wins the next election.
The most optimistic scenario for the voluntary sector in the next public spending round is overall funding cuts of “hundreds of millions if not billions” of pounds, whichever party gets into power, according to a new report by CFDG.
A Conservative MP has admitted that there will be “pain across the public sector”, even in areas protected against spending cuts.
Acevo and the NHS Partners Network have successfully lobbied for an inquiry into a Primary Care Trust’s decision to only accept tenders for running its community services from NHS organisations.
A new centre dedicated to research into charitable giving trends and third sector issues has finally opened in London.
Fundraisers at organisations with incomes of less than £3m can now benefit from a new drop in clinic, hosted on a monthly basis by the Foundation for Social Improvement.
Everyclick has altered its Memorandum of Association so that it is no longer required to give 50 per cent of all its revenue to charity.
The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) has announced the creation of a 'task group' to improve co-ordination between Scotland's third sector, local authorities and government.
The inclusion of sexual violence targets within the government's new Public Service Agreements could be the catalyst for reversing the decline in funding to rape crisis centres, according to some voluntary sector groups.
Grassroots voluntary sector organisations remain concerned about their income levels despite the government's recent commitment to increase funding at a local level, according to two new pieces of research. The National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations (NCVCCO) said many small children’s charities were facing an uncertain future and one in ten may have to close. And a recent survey of NAVCA’s 360 members revealed that they experienced a 14 per cent cut in income last year, from £195.6m to £172m.
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