Small Voluntary Organisations in the 'Age of Austerity': Funding Challenges and Opportunities

127 Pages·2017·4.613 MB·English

by  Pauline McGovern (auth.)

Small Voluntary Organisations
‘ ’
in the Age of Austerity
PaulineMcGovern
Small Voluntary
Organisations
‘
in the Age
’
of Austerity
Funding Challenges and Opportunities
PaulineMcGovern
FacultyofBusiness
UniversityofGreenwich
London,UK
ISBN978-1-137-52186-6 ISBN978-1-137-52188-0(eBook)
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-52188-0
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CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A very special thanks to Professor Emeritus Paul Bellaby, who gave me
greatsupportandadvicejustwhenIneededit.ThanksalsotoDrRiccardo
da Vita at the University of Greenwich, who organised my timetable to
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for my family and friends who had to put up with me while I wrote this
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C
ONTENTS
1 Introduction 1
2 TheRoots ofNeoliberalism andthe Neoliberalising
ofthe VCSE Sector 9
3 Re-definingVoluntary Action 29
4 GettingNeeded Resources:Life inSmall VCSE
Organisations 45
5 Inequalitiesof Power:Cross-Sector Partnerships 69
6 Small VoluntaryOrganisations in the ‘Ageof Austerity’:
Challengesand Opportunities 93
Bibliography 107
Index 117
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L A
IST OF BBREVIATIONS
ACEVO AssociationofChiefExecutivesofVoluntaryOrganisations
CAF CharitiesAidFoundation
CCG ClinicalCommissioningGroups
CIC CommunityInterestCompany
CVS CouncilforVoluntaryService
HoM HeartsofMidlancet(namechanged)
IEA InstituteforEconomicAffairs
KVV KeepVolunteeringVoluntary
MHHG MidlancetHeartHealthGroup(namechanged)
NATCAN NationalCommunityActivistsNetwork
NAVCA NationalAssociationforVoluntaryandCommunityAction
NCIA NationalCoalitionforIndependentAction
NCVO NationalCouncilforVoluntaryOrganisations
PCT PrimaryCareTrust
SOLFED SolidarityFederation
TSRC ThirdSectorResearchCentre
VCSE Voluntary,CommunityandSocialEnterprise
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L F
IST OF IGURES
Fig.3.1 Stagesintheredefinitionofvoluntaryaction 33
Fig.4.1 Linksbetweenstatepowerandgrassrootsorganisations 47
Fig.4.2 Thegenericandspecificlogicsoftheestablishedgrassroots
organisation 54
Fig.4.3 Thegenericandspecificlogicsofthenewgrassroots
organisation 59
Fig.5.1 Thehierarchyoffieldsinthehealthdomainforgrassroots
organisations 84
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L T
IST OF ABLES
Table2.1 Theemergenceofneoliberalpolicyinrelationtovoluntary
actionfromthe1970sonwards 17
Table5.1 SmallVCSEsincross-sectorpartnerships 90
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