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Auto-enrolment - steps to compliance for the VCSE sector

Guest blog - Mike Rohan, Sage Bio: Mike Rohan is the Business Development Manager for Sage and is co-chair of ‘Friends of Auto Enrolment’ in the…

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State of the Sector

Latest Third Sector Trends Data confirms its bad and getting worse

  The latest report from the Northern Rock Foundation Third Sector Trends Study provides a digest of findings on the state of the third sector…

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We asked, you told us. How we're doing at delivering Criminal Justice work in the North East

We recently undertook a survey to measure the impact of our work in the North East around Criminal Justice policy work. The results we received was…

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State of the Sector

Local authorities need to value infrastructure, not try and deliver it

As an ex Chief Officer of Darlington CVS, now Evolution, I was dismayed to hear that Darlington Borough Council have decided not to continue to…

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My first 40 days at VONNE

Apparently it takes 100 days to get into a new role.  I've been in post as the new CEO of VONNE for 40 days and thought it would be a good…

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Does your website pass the Google mobile-friendly test?

You'll have no doubt noticed that we've has launched a new website recently.  I hope you're finding it easier to use and appreciate the new…

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General News

A View from the Bridge

I have just come from a truly inspirational event launching the report Our Lives: Challenging attitudes to poverty in 2015.  It was produced by…

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Health and Wellbeing

Ross’s election manifesto for health and wellbeing

My latest update from Linkedin (and, yes, congratulations Martin for 10 years working at Newcastle CVS) for some reason reminded me of the exercise I…

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Durham PCC Consults on Priorities

Durham and Darlington Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), Ron Hogg, is keen to improve his engagement with the voluntary sector and has…

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General News

Best charity social media campaigns

I feel that 2014 was the year that social media really took off for charities. Hardly a week went by without people jumping on the latest bandwagon…

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State of the Sector

Christmas comes early for North East charities

VONNE are pleased that last week, the Chancellor announced £4m of Government funding for the Virgin Money Foundation to support charitable projects…

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State of the Sector

Guest post: 2D carrying on in a different way

In the new year 2D will be absorbed by Groundwork NE & Cumbria, following the decision of directors and trustees of 2D (read their press release…

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