Brennan appointed as voluntary sector minister
6 October 2008
Kevin Brennan, MP for Cardiff West, has been appointed the new Minister for the Third Sector.
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Rosemary Gillespie has been made chief executive at Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
6 October 2008
Kevin Brennan, MP for Cardiff West, has been appointed the new Minister for the Third Sector.
6 October 2008
Disability charity Scope is axing five senior posts and expects to lay off more staff soon.
3 October 2008
A volunteering charity has warned that new plans to make time off work for volunteering a statutory right could threaten employees’ career prospects.
3 October 2008
Third sector models of governance are not fit for purpose in the 21st century, a chief executive will tell charity trustees tonight.
6 October 2008
The charity has warned that 20 per cent of its placements could go unfilled this year because the economic downturn is affecting people's willingness to volunteer.
New third sector minister Kevin Brennan - formerly an under-secretary at the Department for Children Schools and Families - won the Epolitix.com Disability Charity Champion Award in 2005.
Volunteering will now be known as 'favours' by youth volunteering charity v, whose research showed that two-thirds of young people find the word 'volunteering' a turn-off.
The campaigns coordinator at HelpAge International keeps in touch with central Asia.
"More government money is spent on training hairdressers than it is on training charity treasurers"
Tom Fitch, director of Community Accountancy Self Help, or Cash, which trains small charities in accountancy