Charities are key to social change, says new third sector minister

By Nick Cater, Third Sector Online, 17 July 2007

Charities and campaigners are key partners in government plans to transform society and its citizens, according to Phil Hope, the incoming third sector minister.

Hope admitted he was updating his “slightly 1990s view of the sector” to incorporate its decade of expansion under Labour and declared his confidence in its future. He also suggested business could be a far greater funder of charities. “You can go, and are going, where government cannot go,” Hope...

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