VoluntaryNews

Reporting guest lecture from a leading figure in the US community land trust movement.

New official standard aims to provide a consistent way of counting the greenhouse gas emissions embedded in goods and services throughout their entire life cycle.

Two projects to engage voluntary organisations in the challenges of climate change and resource scarcity.

Best practice child protection guidelines for arts sector organisations have been developed by Volunteer Development Agency in Northern Ireland.

Five years of funding for third sector research centre.

The Commission for the Compact has published ‘What Makes a Successful Local Compact?’.

Action for Blind People is to become an “associate charity” of the RNIB using a new governance model; Action Aid also goes for ground-breaking governance structure.

Call on the Northern Ireland Executive to develop a White Paper on the relationship between government and voluntary and community organisations.

This week (3rd November) sees the remaining stages for the Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill.

A partial agreement has been reached on this year’s settlement on local government NJC pay rates, widely used or referenced in the voluntary sector.

A recent ‘A few good tools’ feature from the American software review site Idealware covers online surveys.

‘Guide to Service Level Agreements for UK Community Radio Stations’ could be of wider interest.