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Alternative Forms of Non-Governmental Organisation

Below the radar in a big society

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UK Gypsies and Travellers and the third sector

The impact of grassroots arts activities

The black minority ethnic third sector

Lost in Austerity: rethinking the community sector

Moving beyond refugeeness

Hearing the voices of Gypsies and Travellers

Social media as a tool for knowledge exchange

Seeing and doing: learning and social networks BTR

Making links: Poverty, Ethnicity & Social Networks

Roma civil society

Emotional role of community activists in policy

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Theory and Policy (T&P)

Devolution or divergence

International civil society

The value of volunteering

Losing political innocence?

A strategic unity

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Partnership and mainstreaming

The big or civil society?

Constituting the third sector

Third sector and the 2010 general election

Hybridity, diversity and the division of labour

BIG as a policy actor

Third sector leadership

Third Sector and the recession

The Big Society: a new policy environment?

Distinction in the third sector

Service Delivery (SD)

Criminal Justice

Comparing self-help housing community land trusts

User and community co-production

Health and Social Care

The personalisation agenda

Third Sector Partnerships for Service Delivery

Partnerships for public service delivery

Public services evidence review

Capturing diversity

The third sector delivering employment services

Self-Help Housing

Housing and community: partnership with HACT

Quantitative Analysis

Individual voluntary participation in the UK

Are big charities becoming increasingly dominant?

How dependent is third sector on public funding?

Mapping the big society

Distribution of local voluntary organisations

The idea of a civic core

Distribution of employees in the third sector

Collecting and classifying data

What the public think of the Big Society

Economic and Social Impact

Economic analysis and the third sector

Value and the third sector

Business or the Third Sector

Impact and evaluation of the third sector

Social Return on Investment (SROI)

The marketisation of charities

Workforce and Workplace

The growing workforce in the VCS

Women in the third sector

Working Lives and Careers

A dimming of the warm glow?

New website charts voluntary sector workforce

Task Force on Climate Change

Mainstreaming the environment

Low-carbon practices

Third sector and environmental behaviour change

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SEIF Evaluation

SEIF Evaluation: background

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Latest News

Governments must enable the social economy to pay a living wage
20 May 2013

Contracts must enable the social economy, or third sector, to provide decent employment conditions, says international research. More

New website charts voluntary sector workforce
10 May 2013

The latest intelligence on the voluntary sector workforce is online. The site explores size, characteristics, working conditions, skills and more. More

Big society - volunteering

Volunteers show little enthusiasm for the Big Society, research says
Wednesday 3 April 2013

Half of those doing voluntary work expressed a negative view of the aganda, and only one in eight were in favour of it. More

Work Programme excludes specialist provision, says research

19 February 2013

New research into the Work Programme casts doubt on the quality of services being delivered, particularly to those furthest from the labour market more

Can third sector leaders find a unified voice, asks TSRC
Monday 11 February 2013

A new discussion paper argues that leadership may need to play an increasing role in protecting the voice of voluntary organisations and those they represent. More

Changing face of voluntary sector workforce reveals need for skills and training investment

Friday 8 February 2013

New statistics reveal the voluntary sector’s paid workforce is increasingly made up of temporary and part-time employees, and fewer staff receive on-the-job training. More

‘Overwhelming scepticism’ to Big Society shows government must offer a more compelling vision

29 January 2013

Research with third sector practitioners on the ground finds overwhelming scepticism about the Big Society agenda. more

Research questions suggestion that charities overwhelmed by government and the market
Friday 18 January 2013

Commercial and statutory income has become more important to charities, but many receive no income from these sources. more

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