While most sector organisations are celebrating the death of the phrase ‘third sector’, local CVS umbrella body Navca has gone a step further and decided to throw out another piece of jargon that has haunted us all in recent years.

No longer will you hear Navca refer to the dreaded “local infrastructure organisations” – such bodies will now be called “local support and development organisations” in all Navca material.

“Infrastructure is generally regarded as an engineering term,” said Navca CEO Kevin Curley. “It conjures up images of bridges, roads and railways.

“Whereas ‘local support and development organisations’ is an accurate description – that is, after all, what they do,” he said.

However, he accepted the new terminology was not exactly catchy, and couldn’t sensibly be acronym-ised.  “That would give us ‘Local SADO’,” Curley chuckled, “which doesn’t help us a lot.”