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Useful Links

The following links will be of interest to those working in the voluntary sector.

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General

Volunteering England is the membership association of Volunteer Development Agencies http://www.volunteering.org.uk

The Directory of Social Change http://www.dsc.org.uk

Charity Commission - The regulator for charities in England and Wales - http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk

National Council for Voluntary Organisations – http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk

NAVCA is the national voice of local third sector infrastructure in England. http://www.navca.org.uk

KnowHow NonProfit is a resource for building and sharing expertise in non profit and charity organisations, faith and community groups and campaigning organisations.

http://www.knowhownonprofit.org/

Sign up for regular news bulletins at these sites

Guardian Voluntary Sector - http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/voluntarysector

Charity Times - http://www.charitytimes.com/ct/index.php

Civil Society News - http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/account?referer=/home

VolResorce weekly email newsletter - http://www.voluntarynews.org/lists/

Third Sector Weekly, you can sign up for regular email bulletins - http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/home/

Social – charity news networking - http://www.thesocial.org.uk/

For fundraising information and support

http://www.fundraising.co.uk

http://www.fit4funding.org.uk

http://www.governmentfunding.org.uk

http://www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk

Government sites

The official UK site for access to government statistics http://www.statistics.gov.uk

Information sites for Trustees

http://www.trusteenet.org.uk

http://www.diycommitteeguide.org

Sandy Adirondack's legal update website for voluntary organisations at www.sandy-a.co.uk

Other sites of interest

Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) - http://www.crb.homeoffice.gov.uk

Independent Safeguard Authority (ISA) - http://www.isa-gov.org.uk

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Nick Clegg invites ideas on cutting charity sector red tape.
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is asking the British public which laws they want scrapped, including regulation of the charity sector. The government has set up a website called Your Freedom on which the public can comment on laws they want repealed or changed. It includes a section on cutting business and voluntary sector regulation.
The site has attracted around 7,000 comments since its launch last week. Ideas related to the sector included gift aid reform and increasing the charity regulation threshold to £10,000.
http://yourfreedom
.hmg.gov.uk/

There is also a site set up by the treasury to allow people to suggest ways to cut government spending,
http://spendingchallenge.hm-treasury.gov.uk/

Vetting & Barring Scheme
News from the Indpenedent Safeguarding Authority web site states that the Government has set out its aim to ‘review the criminal records and vetting and barring regime and scale it back to common sense levels’.
In order to deliver this promise and carry out the remodelling, the Vetting and Barring Scheme will be halted. The first phase of registration was due to commence on 26 July 2010. More information on the ISA website http://www.isa-gov.org.uk/

Annual Reports
A report from Deloitte ‘Surveying the Sector’ says that although annual reports comply with most regulatory reporting requirements the majority are very dull and miss the opportunity to give donors and stakeholders a greater insight into their work.

Funding
NAVCA have warned that £100m is likely to be slashed from voluntary sector funding over the next few weeks following cuts to council budgets.
Has your organisation been affected?

Olympics 2012
McDonald’s will be responsible for recruiting and training the 70,000 volunteers needed to run the 2012 Olympic Games, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games has confirmed.

Big Lottery
The Big Lottery Fund will this month announce the first 50 communities to benefit from a £200m fund which will give residents power over funding projects.
The BIG Local funding stream sees the funder identify regions which have traditionally not received much money from BIG in recognition, according to chief executive Peter Wanless, that sometimes BIG has been compelled to fund projects with the best application, rather than those addressing the greatest need.

All Party Parliamentary Group
Alun Michael MP has been elected as chair of the influential All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Community and Voluntary Sector.

Sector News
There is much talk about funding cuts, the Big Society and the future of the sector. We are aware that there are many daily and weekly quality news sites that you can access for full information (Third Sector, NCVO, VolResorce and Civil Society News) so we do not attempt to provide this type of updated material. There are the links to these on the Useful Links section of our website. Please let us know of others that you feel would be of interest.

Please feel free to comment or expand on any of these news items in the forum, we look forward to seeing your views.