Consultations

The Ethical Property Foundation, working with the Charity Commission, is inviting charities to complete a survey about their property experiences.

Inspiring Impact, a UK-wide collaboration between eight organisations, developed and delivered in partnership with the non-profit sector, wants your thoughts on the impact measurement tools you think are important to the sector.

The long-term vision of Inspiring Impact is to make high quality impact measurement the norm for charities and social enterprises by 2022. This includes measuring social impact and using the data produced to manage and increase impact and share findings.

Questionnaires have been issued by the Office for Civil Society, as part of the review of the Charities Act by Lord Hodgson, asking whether there are too many charities, whether charities are accountable enough to the public and whether there should be a statutory definition of public benefit.

The two general questionnaires, one for charities and one for the public, are supplemented by shorter questionnaires on nine specific areas, including the definition of charity, the role of the Charity Commission and charity mergers. Both the charity and public questionnaires ask:

Nottingham City Council is looking to commission providers to deliver services that will support the VCS in Nottingham City, including helping organisations to be sustainable, grow and meet changing need.

It is expected that the support services should be in place by 1 April 2012.

Nottingham City is composed of a diverse group of VCS organisations working together to meet the needs of Nottingham City's citizens. Organisations that may require support may include play services, counselling services, BME and refugee services, LGBT services and women's groups.