• NHS’s Quarterly Monitoring Report

    Today, The King’s Fund has published its latest quarterly monitoring report, available via this link. The [...]

  • Council landlords and social impact

    Charities have been warned that councils may begin to ask them to prove their social [...]

  • With friends like these …

    I have a problem. Baroness Tina Stowell*, the Chair of the Charity Commission! My heart [...]

  • Grants available for communities

    Communities Against Cancer is a project to help people reduce their risk of cancer, be aware [...]

  • NCVO’s new Chief Executive Announced

    … and the winner is …. Karl Wilding! NCVO has announced that Karl Wilding has been [...]

  • a white model house amongst the dense foliage of a light green bush

    Rural life isn’t always green and pleasant

    Our national partner organisation, ACRE, available via this link, has been promoting the idea that nobody who [...]

  • Share ideas with fellow trustees and managers

    Running a community hall or centre can be lonely work. If you’re the only paid [...]

  • Overhead-a-phobia

    Blog by Kirsty Rowlinson, Head of Services I was recently talking to a friend and [...]

  • Supporting Social Entrepreneurship in Hampshire

    A modest group of social entrepreneurs in Hampshire are proving to be a powerhouse of [...]

  • Anti-social behaviour

    We have recently heard accounts of significant anti-social behaviour around some community buildings. If there’s [...]

  • How can we help you with collaboration and partnership?

    A number of participants said that with the size of contracts increasing, they need to [...]

  • Could the Federation of Small Businesses help you?

    The Federation of Small Businesses, via this link, is a UK-wide support body for small businesses and [...]