Is the sector ready for the challenge from companies?

Third Sector, 9 January 2008

Corporates are muscling in on activities and values traditionally seen as the exclusive preserve of charities. Mathew Little assesses the threat and looks at the ways in which charities are responding.

In December 2006, an anonymous white truck parked outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. In front of the helpless attendant policemen, the truck's occupants then dumped a load of horse manure on the pavement before unveiling a banner that read "45,000,000 Animals Are Sh**ting Themselves Over REACH". The protest...