[This is a guest post from Chris Church (co-Director of the social enterprise Mapping for Change)]
I just returned from the ‘Making an Impact – Collective Actions Towards Sustainable Consumption and Production‘ conference. This was the end of a two year EU funded programme on how civil society organisations (third sector to you and me!) can [...]
On Thursday (10/12/09) the Inland Waterways Advisory Council (IWAC) announced an invitation to bid to undertake research into volunteering. They are interested to learn how to attract, integrate and retain volunteers. The deadline for bids is noon on Monday 11/1/10. The IWAC press release is here (you may have to scroll down). The full Terms of Reference [...]
The Transtion Network is recruiting a Diversity Project Coordinator to ‘Develop models and practices to enable the transition movement to successfully engage across culture, race, faith and income groups’. Full details are here.
The recruitment detail refers to a recent piece of research that others may find helpful. A Fine City in Transition gives a picture [...]
Campaigning is an important part of what the third sector does. This can change hearts and minds and create the environment for tough political decisions to be made . . . . the Drop the Debt Campaign springs to mind.
This guest post is by Trewin Restorick, CEO, Global Action Plan and highlights their COPArt Campaign
Do you want [...]
Charile Dimmock and Tom Flood at the launch of the Carbon Army. Image courtesy of BTCV.
Today, the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) launched its new Carbon Army and pledged 3,000 days of voluntary action, one day for every delegate at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. BTCV’s aims to help us reduce our carbon footprints [...]
We wanted to draw your attention to this opportunity from DWP.
DWP SEMINAR ON THE FUTURE JOBS FUND FOR THIRD SECTOR AND LOCAL AUTHORITY BIDDERS
7 December, 1.30 – 4pm, The Resource Centre, Holloway Road, London
This seminar is specifically aimed at local authorities and third sector organisations that have yet to bid for the Future Jobs Fund or who [...]
The London Sustainable Development Commission (LSDC) are recruiting commisioners. In their words:
The LSDC is looking for senior level experience in the sustainability field, or in a related area. You will have demonstrated outstanding communication and leadership skills and thrive in a highly political environment. Above all, you must bring drive, commitment and practicality to deliver solutions [...]
The Sustainable Development Commission is recruiting for two non-executive directors.
The Sustainable Development Commission is the Government’s independent advisor on sustainable development. It also works to help build the capacity of government and public bodies across the UK to understand and deliver sustainable development; is an advocate for sustainable development within and outside Government; and it [...]
As Compact Week nears the end we have today (6/11/2009) published our Third Sector Strategy ‘One Year On’ report (PDF 1MB). The report discusses the progress we have made on the range of commitments we made in our Third Sector Strategy (PDF 4.17MB).
The report is accompanied by a detailed annex (PDF 920KB) which contains a commentary on the [...]
Last night (3/11/09) at the Compact Awards ceremony we won the award for Excellence at a National Level. We are very pleased and already it’s causing a bit of a stir through the department. And so it should. Defra’s Third Sector Team is the grit in the oyster in all of this and we have [...]
