KnowHow NonProfit, the website that was set up in 2008 with £2.2m from the Big Lottery Fund’s Basis programme, has now been absorbed into the NCVO after its funding ran out.

The grant, totalling £2,258,485, was awarded to the Centre for Charity Effectiveness Trust in 17 January 2008.  The website, which resides within the Centre for Charity Effectiveness at Cass Business School, City University, went live in October 2008 and officially launched at the end of April 2009. It describes itself as a “useful, practical resource with links to other sources of information and help”.

But today it announced that it would transfer into the NCVO later this year. Paul Palmer (pictured), professor of voluntary sector management at Cass Business School, said: “When the vision for a social media education service for the sector was developed at Cass in partnership with the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants, we were always clear that its long-term success and longevity would be for that service to be owned by the voluntary sector community. We are therefore delighted that NCVO has agreed to be the home for KnowHow NonProfit.”

KnowHow NonProfit’s staff will become part of NCVO’s communications and information team later this year.

Sir Stuart Etherington, chief executive of NCVO, said: “We have been working closely with KnowHow NonProfit for some time, so are delighted at the prospect of taking forward a shared vision to meet the sector’s online learning needs.”