Thames21, London’s leading waterways charity, will use the lowest daytime tide in five years as an opportunity to highlight London’s legacy of plastic bag litter that has accumulated in the past 30 years. Thames21 points out that while the attitudes of some have changed – this must now extend beyond charity volunteers and the most [...]
The Compact is the longstanding agreement that sets out shared commitments and guidelines for effective partnership working between government and the third sector in England. The original Compact was agreed in November 1998. A new, refreshed and simplied version was published today (15/12/09) following extensive debate and consultation.
This Compact highlights the shared principles which Compact partners should follow when [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Also posted in 10 Enabling our delivery bodies, 11 Better commissioning, 2 Sustainable living, 3 Public services, 4 Environmental entrepreneurship, 5 Environmental leadership, 6 Improving communications, 7 Understanding the sector, 8 Joining things up, 9 Better partnerships | Tagged Compact, strategy |
On 18 September 2009 Capacity Global will launch their report and maniesto: ’21 Years On: Environment and Diversity’. Professor Julian Agyeman (pictured) will be the keynote speaker at the event. Julian is a member of Capacity Global’s Advisory Board and Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, at the Massachusetts-based Tufts University.
This is an open, [...]
The Baring Foundation today hosted a summit on Voluntary Sector Independence, at which Defra was represented. Framed by a number of expert speakers (including Julia Unwin CBE, Chief Executiveof the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Mark Rosenman, Director of Caring to Change), attendees took part in facilitated working groups – looking at existing pressures on the sector’s independence, and [...]
This is what you get when you put the text of our Third Sector Strategy into a service called Wordle. I did this when I first started my secondment at Defra to help me get another view of the strategy. I am moved to post this now as I am told that this technique was [...]
Today we launched our third sector strategy with the help of three Ministers: Hilary Benn (Secretary of State, Defra); Huw Irranca-Davies (Defra’s third sector minister); Kevin Brennan (OTS) and Joan Ruddock (DECC).
This is the culmination of more than a year’s work with the third sector and across the various divisions within Defra. Thanks are due [...]
