The Charity Commission has finally spotted what NCIA predicted at the beginning of the year, and long before –
“many charities will go bust because of their reliance on government contracts to deliver public services.”
Hard not to say “we told you so” to those who have tied themselves into State agendas with little … Continue reading
As a “lefty American” traversing the ground of the voluntary sector in the UK, I have often had a strange mixture of feelings:
An Unservile Society – It’s time for the voluntary sector to get political
“Community empowerment is local government’s core business”
Simon Milton (in DCLG’s 2007 Action Plan for Community Empowerment)
“Power is never given.”
Operation Black Vote organising slogan
One of the ironies of community empowerment networks (CEN’s) was that they couldn’t empower themselves, or more accurately save themselves from the crude dynamics of how power works at … Continue reading