NAVCA News - posted in October 2011
The following news articles were posted in October 2011.
NAVCA proposes changes to Big Lottery policy directions
NAVCA urges members to support changes to the Big Lottery policy directions...
NAVCA concern at Enfield NHS cuts
NAVCA has made Freedom of Information requests in response to reports that the NHS in Enfield will be cutting voluntary sector grants. ...
NAVCA goes back to school
NAVCA’s staff members went back to school earlier this week when they took part in an employee action day, giving the grounds of Auckland School in Doncaster a makeover. The day was organised by BTCV. It allowed NAVCA staff to help a local school, whilst also building team spirit and team working....
Localism Bill victory
NAVCA is celebrating victory for the voluntary and community sector following the publication of the amended Localism Bill. The amended Bill has been published following the House of Lords report stage. Despite intense lobbying by the Countryside Landowners Association (CLA) to reduce the length of time that charities would be able to exercise their Right to Buy, the government has agreed with NAVCA that a six months period is the minimum period needed to make the Assets of Community Value opportunity work....
NAVCA urges Frances Maude to keep the government’s lottery promise
NAVCA Chief Executive, Kevin Curley, has written to the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude MP, to urge him to deliver on the government’s promise to direct more of the Big Lottery Fund’s money to charities and community groups. The current consultation on the Big Lottery Fund policy directions, launched by the Cabinet Office, proposes BIG funding should go ‘primarily’ to the voluntary and community sector. Previously the Government said that BIG lottery funding should exclusively go to the voluntary and community sector....
NAVCA publishes Open Public Services consultation response
NAVCA has published its response to the government’s Open Public Services White Paper, which sets out the government’s plans to reform public services. The government sees it as part of their Big Society agenda. They believe it hands power to communities and ends the top-down ‘government knows best’ approach. Critics have called the plans "back-door privatisation"....
