Supporting Voluntary and Community Action
A new policy paper from Sir Brendan Barber, ACAS Chair from 2014-2020, calls for fairer, more inclusive and flexible workplaces and a new workplace contract as the nation recovers from coronavirus.
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A University of Bristol research team is seeking participants who have experience of supporting a woman who has suffered abuse from a partner or family member.
The Building Resilience study aims to develop support for...
The number of serious incidents reported to the Charity Commission has increased by 47% since last year.
The figure, published in the regulator’s recent...
The Charity Commission has stated that it intends to launch a new online register of charities, with the aim of making it easier for the public to find information on the organisations which they need.
According to the commission,...
More than 550 Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations and academics have signed an open letter to Research England and to UK national newspapers, calling for a review into VCSE sector engagement with universities in the emerging...
The government has opened the Community Match Challenge – a match-funding scheme for initiatives supporting the coronavirus response....
The Fore’s RAFT Transition Fund is offering unrestricted grants of up to £15,000 to help small charities and social enterprises plan for the longer term and gain a stronger footing in a post-coronavirus world.
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Feeding Bristol has launched its Healthy Holidays fundraising appeal to help more than 14,250 disadvantaged children over the school holidays.
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The Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) is one of the UK’s leading sight loss charities and the largest community of blind and partially sighted people.
In March 2018 the Charity Commission...
The Charity Digital Skills Report 2020 has been released, exploring the state of digital skills across the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector, and tracking the impact of coronavirus on digital technology and service provision.
This report, the fourth in...