# VSNTO launches new Web site

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/12/02/vsnto-launches-new-web-site/
- Published: 2002-12-02T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

With funding from the New Opportunities Fund, the Voluntary Sector National Training
Organisation (VSNTO) has launched a Web site.
It is designed to covers a wide range
of skills development issues relevant to paid staff, volunteers and trustees of 
voluntary and community organisations.

Unfortunately, the site contains a number of errors and some design faults, and 
these have been pointed out by at least two other publications this week. VolResource
Newsletter points out that the Quality Frameworks section is “crying out for an 
intro or overview section.”

This month’s NFP TECHNO is more damning, pointing out the references to ICFM Update–“
as redundant as the ICFM name;” to Third Sector magazine being owned by Arts Publishing
International, when Haymarket bought it out earlier this year; and the recommendation
to read “Charity” magazine from the Charities Aid Foundation which ceased publication
some years ago. NFP TECHNO adds that the site attributes ownership of “Professional
Fundraising” magazine to Brainstorm Publishing rather than TM&D Press.

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NFP TECHNO’s editor concludes: “as this superb new website has been financed by 
the New Opportunities Fund, I suggest that an immediate audit is conducted to ascertain
exactly what work was undertaken for the investment and recommend that the people
responsible for the website take their own advice and make contact with the Big 
Issue about future prospects.”

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