One East Midlands has set up a mailing list to keep the VCS in Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire updated on the work of the D2N2 LEP and opportunities for relationships with the VCS.
Following the success of our first three annual MP guides, we have now published our One East Midlands Guide to MPs 2014, which contains updated information on all 46 MPs covering the East Midlands.
Local government think tank LGiU has published the first of two summaries of the Third Sector Resource Centre’s report Understanding the third sector: the work of the Third Sector Research Centre 2008–2013.
There are now over 6,600 works on the sector catalogued and classified with helpful keywords in the Third Sector Knowledge Portal, a free to use e-library of research, evidence and analysis.
NCVO, the Institute of Fundraising and the Charity Finance Group have launched a review of the effectiveness of the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme, including a survey of voluntary organisations, open until Friday 27 June.
One East Midlands is looking to produce more case studies on our member organisations and their projects that are doing something different that you want to tell the rest of the region’s VCS about.
The number of people employed in the voluntary sector rose by 35,000 in accounts and annual returns filed in the year to March 2014 with the Charity Commission.
