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22 Feb 2012
Youth United gets £1m from government to train adult volunteers
Kirsty Weakley
2 Feb 2012
2 Feb 2012
Tags: Volunteering | Statutory funding
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OSCR staff survey reveals rising motivation levels
2 Feb 2012 | Niki May Young
Staff at the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator are more motivated than they were, have a greater personal attachment to the organisation and are more confident in the board’s vision for the future, according to a new survey.
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OSCR staff survey reveals rising motivation levels
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Eric Pickles has announced that his Department for Communities and Local Government will give a coalition of youth volunteering bodies £10m to train 2,700 new adult volunteers.
Three UK-based charities are placed amongst the top twenty best NGOs in the world in a report by the Global Journal.
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Blears to push Hurd on definition for social enterprise 2
Vibeka Mair
2 Feb 2012
2 Feb 2012
Tags: Social enterprise
Labour MP Hazel Blears plans to write to minister for civil society Nick Hurd urging him to consider a statutory definition for social enterprise, after he recently confirmed that the government had no plans to introduce one.
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Shaw Trust examines merger with Work Programme prime contractor
Tania Mason
1 Feb 2012
1 Feb 2012
Tags: Mergers | Collaborations
The Shaw Trust and Careers Development Group, two of the UK’s biggest welfare-to-work charities, are considering a merger.
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Community energy lobby presses government for huge scaling up
Tania Mason
1 Feb 2012
1 Feb 2012
Tags: Campaigns
The National Trust and the Women’s Institute are among a coalition of civil society groups that are meeting Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne today to press for massive expansion of community energy projects across the UK.
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Yorkshire business community organises match-making volunteering event
Kirsty Weakley
1 Feb 2012
1 Feb 2012
Tags: Volunteering
A business networking group in Yorkshire is organising a networking event to connect business people with charities that can benefit from their skills.
The Prince of Wales is today meeting with members from youth charities, both at his Clarence House base and in South London, to discuss the issues young British people face.
One of the largest adoption support charities in the UK has subsumed a West Midlands adoption charity in order to save its services in the area.
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