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Third Sector Trends Study 2016
The latest Third Sector Trends Study 2016 provides a picture of the state of the voluntary sector in North East England and Cumbria over 10 years.…
View BlogGuest Blog: A Whole New World - What Next?
This guest post is from Toby Lowe (Newcastle University). It first appeared on Embracing Uncertainty. It’s been a month since we launched ‘A…
View BlogA week is a long time in politics
In less than a week we’ve moved from having a government with a comfortable majority headed for hard Brexit and touting the 'strong and stable'…
View BlogPlanning to get involved with an ‘Asset Transfer’?
This is a guest blog from Ethical Partnership 25th May 2017. Also available on their website here. Planning to get involved with an ‘Asset…
View BlogWhat can social finance ever do for us?
This guest blog from Janet Morrison, Chief Executive of Independent Age, Chair of the Campaign to End Loneliness and Director of…
View BlogLet’s be bold and seek to shape our own future
The NCVO Annual Conference last week felt like a rallying cry for the sector, two days after the announcement of a snap general election with a…
View BlogBudget analysis: Caution and austerity continues
Yesterday's Budget appeared to be one focussing on caution in an uncertain pre-Brexit economy. The overall context for charities remaining one of…
View BlogWhere is the North East and where is the VCSE? - Northern Powerhouse roundtable
Today I met with colleagues from VCSE infrastructure organisations across the North to consider the first report from the Northern Powerhouse…
View BlogThe Token Northener, service logic and system insanity - Feedback from my Downing Street Voluntary Sector Roundtable
Last week as I was invited by Barrow Cadbury Trust to be part of a select group of VCSE reps to attend a roundtable a No.10 with Charlotte Lawson,…
View Blog7 lessons from 13 years at VONNE
Facebook didn’t exist when I first started at VONNE. Nor YouTube or Twitter. Looking back on my 13 years at VONNE as Communications Manager, my job…
View BlogPoverty is everyone's business
VONNE’s annual conference ‘Tackling Poverty Together’ last Thursday 1st December highlighted the increasing levels of poverty and child poverty both…
View BlogIs I, Daniel Blake the best way to argue for tackling UK poverty?
The VONNE conference on 'Tackling Poverty Together' on the 1st December, was followed by a screening of I, Daniel Blake. We are featuring this…
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