Impact of the budget on the voluntary and community sector

Here is information and resources to help you understand how the budget will affect the voluntary and community sector.  If you would like us to add anything to this or have any comments please email gillian@hcvs.org.uk  

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Published 1 July 2010 on HCVS Email Service

• Website opened by National Council for Voluntary Organisations shows most cuts are by the Arts Council
  The voluntary sector has suffered public sector funding cuts of nearly £3m since the end of May, according to figures collected by the NCVO.
  As the public spending squeeze begins, the umbrella body has assembled a table listing 579 organisations that have seen reductions in grants or contracts from statutory bodies.
  Read the full story here:  http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Finance/Article/1012686/3m-slashed-charities-funding-past-month/
• NVCO Crowdsourcing the Cuts
  The National Council for Voluntary Organisations is collecting information on how changes to planned central and local government spending are affecting voluntary and community organisations.
  Please contact:  http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/emailFlare?itemTitle=NCVO%20Crowdsourcing%20the%20Cuts&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsyfab.org.uk%2Ffundingnews%2F2010%2F06%2F29%2Fncvo-crowdsourcing-the-cuts%2Fl
• Charities 'must do more to demonstrate accountability'
  They need to get better at measuring impact, Charles Nall tells Charity Finance Directors' Group conferenceCharities must do more to demonstrate their accountability and transparency to donors and beneficiaries, according to Charles Nall, chair of the Charity Finance Directors’ Group. 
   Read the full story here: http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Finance/Article/1012070/Charities-must-demonstrate-accountability/
• Arts Council England has given details of how it will implement the £19 million cut to its 2010/11 income from government, as announced by the Department for Culture Media and Sport on 24 May
  The cut follows another in-year reduction of £4 million in April 2009, meaning that the Arts Council’s original 2010/11 budget has been reduced from £468 million to £445 million.
   Find out more: visit http://press.artscouncil.org.uk/content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=1042&NewsAreaID=2
• Study highlights Big Society’s ‘rhetoric and reality gap’
   Read more from New Start here: http://www.newstartmag.co.uk/news/article/2954/study-highlights-big-societys-rhetoric-and-reality-gap

Published 24 June 2010 on HCVS Email Service

• Responses from ACEVO, the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations here:  http://www.acevo.org.uk/Page.aspx?pid=1073
• ACEVO, the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations analysed the spending cuts and the emergency budget  on the new cutswatch.org.uk website. The Microsite is dedicated to providing you with the latest news, resources and directions to support you may need in the months ahead. More resources will be added daily.  http://www.cutswatch.org.uk/main/ 
• Charities Aid Foundation responds to the emergency budget  http://www.cafonline.org/default.aspx?page=19288&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewsFromCAF+%28News+from+Charities+Aid+Foundation%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
• Directory of Social Change http://www.dsc.org.uk/NewsandInformation/News/Emergencybudget2010?dm_i=6S7,508C,N8K2R,FKDA,1
• NCVO has provided an at-a-glance summary of the key points of the Budget that affect the Voluntary and Community Sector  http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/news/funding/budget-2010-how-will-it-affect-you
• News from New Start:  Budget: charities criticise ‘short-termist’ measures
  More info:  http://www.newstartmag.co.uk/news/article/2920/budget-charities-criticise-short-termist-measures
• News from Third Sector: Budget will place major burden on charities, umbrella bodies say
  More info:  http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/Article/1011592/Budget-will-place-major-burden-charities-umbrella-bodies-say
  
• Impact of public spending cuts on the sector in Hackney
   Read Jake Ferguson’s blog here

This information has come from Voscur - Bristol Council for Voluntary Service.  More information on Voscur is here http://www.voscur.org