Campaigns

Dear Mr Hope,

Congratulations on your appointment as Minsiter for the Third Sector in the Cabinet Office. One of the successes over the last ten years has been how the role of volunteers and their value to society has become better understood and supported, a crucial development bearing in mind the increasing role volunteers are playing in the delivery of public services and the 2012 Olympics, for example.

However, our major concern is that the crucial link between volunteers, and successful and sustainable volunteering – the volunteer manager – is still misunderstood and consequently unsupported.

Capacity Builders are deconstructing themselves. What was six (hubs):

# financing voluntary and community sector activity;
# governance;
# information and communication technologies;
# performance;
# volunteering; and
# workforce development

Has after getting in a consultant become four (strategic themes):

1) Finance and Resources
2) Performance
3) People and Skills
4) Voice

To quote Capacity Builders: