Why do charities want a fourth term for Labour?
The sector wants another Labour government – not by a slim margin but by a massive one. That is the finding from the State of the Sector survey Third Sector carried out with research agency nfpSynergy....
View ArticleFunding the Future conference: policy was thin on the ground as Nick Hurd...
Shadow charities minister Nick Hurd announced to delegates at the Funding the Future conference yesterday that he was going to tell them something they might know already. “There’s going to be a...
View ArticleTories hint at tax breaks for social investment
In the run-up to the election there have been lots of promises from political parties about what they will do to improve the lot of social enterprises. This week Nick Hurd, shadow charities minister,...
View ArticleThe mauling of Dame Suzi Leather
Dame Suzi Leather’s membership of the Labour Party has never been a disqualification for her to be chair of the Charity Commission. But it has created an opening for the piranhas of the Daily Mail and...
View ArticleSix-hour Tory love-in at the Acevo summit
How many ways can you say I love you? That was the dilemma facing members of the shadow Cabinet when they turned out in force yesterday to cosy up to a hundred or so charity delegates at the...
View ArticleDavid Cameron’s National Citizen Service is likely to interest only middle...
Volunteering was at the top of the political agenda for a brief moment yesterday, when David Cameron used his first major press conference since the beginning of the general election campaign to...
View ArticleIs David Cameron about to shelve the ‘big society’?
Headless chickens come to mind as we watch Labour and Conservatives running around in search of the best way to neutralise the Clegg effect. It’s brought the election alive in a slightly disturbing way...
View ArticleThe government’s decision on Refugee and Migrant Justice is reminiscent of...
David Cameron spent a lot of time in opposition playing down comparisons between his politics and those of the Thatcher government. When he came into power in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, it...
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