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News
- NAVCA tells voluntary sector to get involved in EU Procurement
- NAVCA celebrates gaining 400th member
- NAVCA members' Chief Executive Officers recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours
- CWDC and NAVCA promote a better way of working, all together
- NAVCA reaction to NCVO Almanac figures
- April Quality Award recipients
- NAVCA launches beginner's guide to commissioning
- NAVCA concern over CLG Best Value Guidance
- Better together: preparing for local spending cuts to the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector
- NAVCA members meet the Big Lottery Fund
- Distribution of Big Lottery Funds
- Big Lottery Fund's Peter Wanless tells NAVCA Conference that the future for the fund will be a mixture of the old and new
- Kevin Curley tells NAVCA conference to put housing and homelessness 'into your in-tray'
- NAVCA members respond to the Big Society
- Podcast: Catherine Sermon, Business in the Community (BITC)
- A Bridge Between Two Worlds
- NAVCA responds to Big Society launch
- NAVCA membership boost
- NAVCA welcomes Government's National Care Service White Paper
- Podcast: Alison Seabrooke from Community Development Foundation discusses participation and democracy
- Sector Challenge Summit
- Changes at NAVCA
- Charity Commission to look more closely at charities' involvement in prisons
- NAVCA responds to the Charity Commission's Strategic Review
- NAVCA meets Minister for Work and Pensions
- Community Rights to Challenge and to Buy Consultations
- Government deficit reduction programme: fairness and responsibility
- CLG report shows Total Place needs local third sector involvement to be successful
- UK Climate Projections
- The coalition agreement and the voluntary and community sector
- Coalition programme published
- Getting your message across: the case for behind the scenes influence
- Compact renewal
- NAVCA policy on statutory powers for the compact
- BIS Adult Skills and Learning Consultations
- CORE 2010 - visits to two special community centres
- Cabinet Office plans support for sector
- Critical issues for the local voluntary sector in 2011
- The third sector and the current economic climate - papers from the summit
- Public spending cuts
- Cuts - to challenge or not to challenge
- Local authority grant cuts: details
- The NAVCA Cuts Event - Wednesday 25 August 2010
- NAVCA delegation meets Minister for Decentralisation and Localism
- Local Grants Forum launches a guide to help defend grant funding in the recession
- NAVCA included in DfE overarching strategic partner consortium
- NAVCA welcomes Department of Health £3.6 million awards to charities
- Government responds to NAVCA's concerns about the DWP's volunteer brokerage scheme
- Ed Miliband speaks at NAVCA conference
- Using the equality duties to make fair financial decisions
- Political parties tell NAVCA how they will support voluntary and community action
- Eric Pickles promises action against 'unreasonable councils'
- Empowering Voluntary Sector project shortlisted for award
- NAVCA and FCDL community development survey
- Department of Health Financial Assistance Fund opens for applications
- First six NAVCA quality awards
- Celebrating five years of Public Law Action and Training
- The new Government and its implications for funding the local voluntary sector
- A Future for Civil Society
- New publication: Creating your Green Action Plan
- NAVCA welcomes Give with Care - stopping bogus charity clothing collections
- NAVCA responds to Giving Green Paper
- Conservative Shadow Minister Greg Clark says NAVCA members can shape the future for the third sector
- Kevin Curley responds to Guardian Somerset article
- Personalisation health check
- NAVCA shares over £40,000 with members to host health events
- NAVCA responds to Health White Paper
- Letter to Minister: HealthWatch
- NAVCA responds to consultations on public health and workforce development
- Health and Social Care Bill - Have Your Say
- NAVCA Chief Executive appointed to the Independent Challenge Group
- Invitations to Tender: Website Design and development; Web database development and integration
- Japanese researchers learn about NAVCA and our members
- The emerging challenges and opportunities for the voluntary sector in this changed political landscape - is this "a serious crisis we shouldn't let go to waste"?
- NAVCA produces briefing for Department of Health
- Justice for All
- Public spending cuts and the voluntary and community sector
- Kevin Curley challenges Charity Commission chief over grants gaffe
- New Vodcast: Kevin Brennan MP
- Strong national leadership needed to set local tone for sector - NAVCA Chief Executive responds to election result
- Strengthening local leadership: key issues facing local support and development organisations
- NAVCA partners in publication of a new commissioning guide
- NAVCA asks local authorities to play fair with the local voluntary sector when making cuts
- Changing the language we use
- NAVCA members reverse Local Enterprise Partnership decision
- Local government and the voluntary sector working better together
- NAVCA tells Lib Dem councillors 'follow Lib Dem policy'
- Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS
- NAVCA urges members to tell local candidates how they can support voluntary action
- NAVCA gives evidence to the Localism Bill Committee
- Localism Bill delayed again
- Localism Bill published
- Localism Bill: Right to buy and right to challenge consultations
- Localism Bill: Right to buy and right to challenge consultations
- Inspiring local leadership
- NAVCA fears lottery change will disadvantage local charities and community groups
- NAVCA responds to lottery shares consultation
- NAVCA seeks assurances from Chief Secretary to the Treasury that spending Review will not kill the Big Society agenda
- Managing the cuts
- Vodcast: NAVCA members at NAVCA's 2nd open day
- Kevin Curley writes to Nick Hurd about the new DWP Merlin Standard
- Modernising Commissioning: Increasing the role of charities, social enterprises, mutuals and cooperatives in public service delivery
- Response to 'Modernising Commissioning' green paper
- European Commission consulting on modernising procurement rules
- Music Licensing
- Reprieve on music charges for small charities
- Updated: The National Audit Office has launched a vital resource for all NAVCA members
- National Citizen Service
- NAVCA and the WEA reaffirm plans to build closer links
- navcaboodle celebrates its 1,500th member
- New research shows NAVCA members are offering local groups practical support
- NAVCA announces successful Network Support Grant bids
- New Government - new appointments
- Testing times for renewed Compact
- Mike Newstead to retire after 35 years as Chief Officer of Bassetlaw CVS
- NHS constitution: NAVCA consultation response
- Nick Hurd praises important work of NAVCA and its members
- 227 million reasons to celebrate the third sector in Nottingham
- National Survey of Charities and Social Enterprises
- National survey of charities and social enterprises deadline approaching
- NAVCA calls on OCS to be more demanding
- Podcast: Simon Davidson, Director of One Voice Network
- NAVCA welcomes first ever Select Committee Report on the Third Sector
- NAVCA responds to Select Committee enquiry on Big Society
- NAVCA gives evidence to the Public Administration Select Committee inquiry into voluntary sector funding
- Charity Builder Podcast, with Simon Wright of Tennyson Insurance
- Cabinet Office Roundtable on the Public Services Reform white paper
- Public Services (Social Enterprise and Social Value) Bill
- NAVCA members received Quality Award at conference
- Real Help for Communities
- Joint Cabinet Office - BIS Task Force on Cutting Red Tape: the priorities of NAVCA members
- Kevin Curley tells Red Tape Taskforce 'grants reduce red tape'
- Cutting red tape to help the local voluntary and community sector
- NAVCA responds to Renewed Compact consultation
- NAVCA commissions research into reducing reoffending
- Rethinking infrastructure services and funding advice
- Rationalising Local Support and Development Organisations: Some radical proposals
- Can the third sector do more with less? Guardian roundtable discussion
- Shining on a Shoestring
- NAVCA welcomes Government change of heart on single group funding guidance
- Strong Independent Roots 3: Supporting local voluntary action
- Strong Independent Roots: parliamentary launch
- SKiLD development worker survey 2010
- Skills consultations
- NAVCA responds to Public Spending Review
- Staying positive as the cuts deepen
- Vodcast: Stuart Etherington, Chief Executive of NCVO
- NAVCA response to OCS consultation on infrastructure services
- Survive & Thrive - Charity use of Technology
- Taking action to defend local services for women
- What future for the local voluntary sector in a time of austerity?
- Transition Fund Launched
- Podcast: Karen Heenan, Charity Trustee Networks
- European Funding and the Work Programme: Problems and solutions for local voluntary organisations
- NAVCA's Tender Support Project enhanced
- NAVCA provides "very good value for money from its strategic grant"
- Third Sector Network Values Statement
- NAVCA members' concerns about the Vetting and Barring Scheme
- Government halts registration stage of Vetting and Barring Scheme
- Vodcast: Debra Allcock Tyler, Chief Executive of DSC
- Vodcast: Peter Holbrook, Chief Executive of the Social Coalition Enterprise
- Vodcast: Voice4Change and NAVCA launch training for BME organisations
- An independent evaluation of the voice work of NAVCA
- Funding for the local voluntary and community sector: How do we respond to the cuts?
- Can partnerships survive cuts in funding to the local voluntary sector?
- NAVCA workplan 2009/10: Podcast
- Women's National Commission: letter to minister
- Social Investment and the Big Society Bank
- Health & Social Care bill – listening exercise
- Child Poverty Strategy
- NAVCA campaigning to make the Localism Bill good for local communities
- NAVCA welcomes Red Tape Report
- NAVCA step up Localism Bill campaign
- Giving White Paper announcement success for NAVCA.
- Regeneration consultation
- NAVCA responds to Health Listening Exercise
- NAVCA response to Health and Social Care Bill changes
- NAVCA Chief Officer Survey 2011
- Labour's Charities spokesperson addresses CORE
- Public Services White Paper launched
- Transforming Local Infrastructure programme
- Kevin Curley announces his retirement from NAVCA
- Tender Support Evaluation
- SEIF fund
- Treasury Green Book Annex
- Kevin Curley congratulates Chancellor
- Chair of NHS Future Forum to address health conference
- Sustainable support
- Best Value Guidance
- Open Public Services - Consultation event
- 2011 Compact Awards
- NAVCA members key to local charities’ success
- Lifetime Achievement Award for Kevin Curley
- NAVCA publishes Open Public Services consultation response
- NAVCA urges Frances Maude to keep the government’s lottery promise
- Localism Bill victory
- NAVCA goes back to school
- NAVCA concern at Enfield NHS cuts
- NAVCA proposes changes to Big Lottery policy directions
- NAVCA support for Robin Hood tax
- Free commissioning guide to mark Trustees' Week
- Public Law workshops
- NAVCA influences Select Committee Regeneration Inquiry
- DH strategic partner programme
- I mean what I say
- Newcastle strike plan
- NAVCA Appoints Joe Irvin as New Chief Executive
- Parliamentary Big Society report released
- Nottinghamshire cuts
- NAVCA welcomes proposed changes to EU procurement rules
- Understanding Local Giving
- Best value letter
- Joe Irvin takes over the reins at NAVCA
- Joe Irvin's Work Programme concerns expressed in the Observer
- Charities Minister Nick Hurd meets Joe Irvin
- NAVCA welcomes Eric Pickles action on Nottinghamshire cuts
- Local charities and community groups have voice thanks to NAVCA members
- Transforming Local Infrastructure
- NAVCA’s six point test for local Healthwatch
- NAVCA ebulletins
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Podcasts & Vodcasts
- SIB Lib Dem conference podcast
- Vodcast: Debra Allcock Tyler, Chief Executive of DSC
- Vodcast: Peter Holbrook, Chief Executive of the Social Coalition Enterprise
- Catherine Sermon, Business in the Community (BITC)
- Podcast: Simon Davidson, Director of One Voice Network
- Vodcast from members open day
- Podcast: Vandna Gohil Director of Voice4Change talks to Bill Freeman
- Alison Seabrooke from Community Development Foundation discusses participation and democracy
- 10:10 podcast
- Charity Builder Podcast, with Simon Wright of Tennyson Insurance
- Stephen Hammersley, Community Foundation Network
- NAVCA Conference 2009 Vodcasts
- Vodcast: Stuart Etherington, Chief Executive of NCVO
- Graham Biggs, Rural Services Network
- Vodcast: Voice4Change and NAVCA launch training for BME organisations
- Kevin Curley's thoughts on the party conferences
- Grassroots Grants podcast
- Kevin Brennan MP Vodcast
- Podcast: Karen Heenan, Charity Trustee Networks
- David Blunkett MP
- Greg Clarke Podcast
- "No more application forms" - Jonathan Lewis
- Susanne Rauprich, Chief Executive of NCVYS
- Peter Wanless, Big Lottery Fund
- Rachel Lomax, Funding Commission Chair
- NAVCA workplan 2009/10
- Kevin Curley's speeches
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Learning and Skills
- 14-19 learning provision
- CALL - Campaigning Alliance for Lifelong Learning
- Evidence of the impact of the sector providing learning
- Funding Opportunity
- Informal adult learning
- Learning and Skills News
- NIACE
- NAVCA and partnership with key learning and skills bodies and networks
- Post 19 learning provision
- Promoting apprenticeships in the sector
- QTLS reforms and the implications for providers of learning and skills
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Delivering public services
- Championing the Children's Workforce
- Change for Children: Evaluating our work with local support and development organisations
- Funding Guide to Workforce Development
- Frontline Hopscotch
- Unlocking the Criminal Justice System
- Supporting the Children's Workforce: A guide to structuring services
- Targeting the third sector
- What is Every Child Matters?
- Supporting work with offenders project evaluation
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Funding, grants and commissioning
- A Beginner's Guide to Commissioning
- At Your Bidding
- Bridge Between Two Worlds
- Commissioning and the Big Society: the role of the community sector
- Cornwall's Community Advice Network
- Crunch Time
- Do we need ISO?
- For good measure
- Local Grants
- Need help with commissioning and procurement?
- Pathways through the maze: a guide to procurement law - 2ndedition (Oct 2010)
- Sustaining Grants
- The local economic and social value of grant making with the voluntary and community sector
- Understanding Contracts
- Why grants are important for healthy local VCS
- Evaluation of the Tender Support Project
- Local support and development organisations
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- Race issues - sources of support
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- Merger and collaboration
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Skild - Skills and Knowledge in Local Development
- Health checks for groups
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Skild training courses and events
- SKiLD local delivery courses
- Being a development worker
- Diversity - making it real
- Facilitation skills for development workers
- The changing role of funding advisers
- Negotiation skills for development workers
- Personalisation health check training for development workers
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- Assertiveness skills for development workers
- Tools for engaging with community groups and voluntary organisations
- From development worker to manager
- Equality impact assessments
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- New perspectives for experienced development workers
- Facilitating mergers: toolkit and training for development workers
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