NAVCA News - posted in March 2012
The following news articles were posted in March 2012.
NAVCA chief says Budget should have helped charities
Joe Irvin, Chief Executive of national umbrella charity NAVCA, has used a speech to Involve Yorkshire and the Humber’s annual conference for support and development organisations to say that the Budget was a squandered opportunity. He argued that the Budget should have been used to help communities hardest hit by the economic downturn, by providing support for local charities. Joe made his remarks at Involve’s conference at Cober Hill in Scarborough on Friday 23 March....
NAVCA response to the Budget
Joe Irvin said, "This budget should have gone further. Charities supporting the most deprived communities are facing the double whammy of cuts in funding and rocketing demand. This budget is a squandered opportunity to help Britain's hardest hit communities. This government needs to understand that the big society only works if the local society works as well."...
NAVCA responds to Big Lottery Building Capabilities consultation
NAVCA has responded to the Big Lottery Fund’s ‘Building Capabilities’ consultation. This consultation has been undertaken by the Big Lottery Fund who has decided to change how it will use its funding to provide organisational support to local voluntary sector organisations. The changes and consultation questions are in their consultation document Building capabilities for impact and legacy....
NAVCA welcomes Government support for early intervention
NAVCA has welcomed the reports that the work and pensions minister Iain Duncan Smith will later today (Tuesday 13 March) announce that the government will publish tender documents to establish an Early Intervention Board. ...
NAVCA publishes regeneration report to support Transition Fund campaign
NAVCA has published a report to support the recent call made by the leading voluntary and community sector umbrella organisations, including NAVCA, for a second wave of transition funding to help regenerate the most deprived areas. The report evidences the impact of public spending cuts since 2010 on the local voluntary sector. After compiling the evidence in NAVCA's report, NAVCA has written to George Osborne MP to further urge him to use his Budget on 21 March to provide transition funding to help people who are suffering most from public spending cuts....
New data reveals damaging decline in grant funding for charities
The Local Grants Forum says that the 2012 NCVO Civil Society Almanac, published today, provides conclusive proof that a major shift from grant funding to contracting by local public bodies is taking place....
Focus on the impact of the cuts
NAVCA has called for politicians to focus on the effects of charities cuts rather than get caught up in the argument over the size of the cuts. Newspapers yesterday ran stories about a leaked report Acevo sent to the Government. The report about the Transition Fund suggested that charities could have lost up to £5.5 billion pounds due to the recession and public spending cuts. Questioned about the cuts from the Labour Shadow Charities Minister, Gareth Thomas MP, the Cabinet Officer rejected the figures in the report saying that they do not 'consider these figures reliable.'...
Parliamentary Reception
NAVCA held a reception on Monday 27 February in the House of Commons to celebrate the work of our members and say farewell to Kevin Curley and welcome to new Chief Executive, Joe Irvin....
