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Third Sector Strategy ‘One Year On report’ published

By Third Sector team | Published: 6 November, 2009

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 [...]

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21 Years On – Diversity and the Environment Movement

By Simon Berry | Published: 26 August, 2009

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, [...]

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Voluntary Sector Independence event

By Conor Ritchie | Published: 8 July, 2009

 
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 [...]

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Have we got the balance right?

By Simon Berry | Published: 24 April, 2009

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 [...]

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Defra launches third sector strategy

By Simon Berry | Published: 3 November, 2008

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 [...]

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