With Government spending plans for 2015-16 due to be announced next month, NCVO has been looking at what the sector can expect.
Our latest Counting the Cuts report shows that further cuts are on the cards. Where these cuts will fall is the main topic of political debate. Will councils be expected to make further sizeable cuts? Will welfare budgets or un-ringfenced departments be squeezed further?
Each year, the Institute for Fiscal Studies produces its highly-regarded ‘green budget’ analysis shortly ahead of the Budget. This morning, I was at the launch of its 2013 Green Budget at UCL’s Senate House. And by the looks of the attendance list, half the Treasury were as well.
For those of us who were or were raising children in the 80s/early 90s, Going Live! was an early morning TV show. Today the phrase is used to refer to the launch of websites, servers and E-Systems. Gadgets, gizmos, tablets and e-readers now populate our lives and homes as commonly as books, encyclopaedias and the good old snail-mail from long-lost friends used to.
Published last month, SE UK’s latest report The Shadow State makes for sobering reading. If you missed it, it is well worth a look.
The report describes the rise and rise of juggernaut companies and their private equity owners, sucking up public service contracts and creaming off the profits. Leaving everyone else – their beneficiaries, charities, and the state itself – only slim pickings.
Given how tough the jobs market is right now, it is perhaps unsurprising that NCVO received hundreds of applications for two trainee positions recently. In the process of sifting applications and doing interviews, I met many great candidates, often looking for their first break into the voluntary sector. Almost everyone told us how hard it is to find paid, entry-level roles in the sector – so here are a few tips for anyone in this position.
The issue of rising costs is of real concern to the voluntary sector. In a climate of reduced funding, every penny is harder to earn and therefore more important to retain.
NCVO has issued our response to the Autumn Statement today, saying that it was a sobering assessment of the nation’s finances that offers little comfort for vulnerable people and the charities that support them.
Taking a look in more detail at key points for the sector:
- Austerity set to continue; growth measures limited in scale
Article by Zeina Whalley
For those of us who were or were raising children in the 80s/early 90s, Going Live! was an early morning TV show. Today the phrase is used to refer to the launch of websites, servers and E-Systems. Gadgets, gizmos, tablets and e-readers now populate our lives and homes as commonly as books, encyclopaedias and the good old snail-mail from long-lost friends used to.
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