# NCVO welcomes NAO report on statutory funding

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/06/28/ncvo-welcomes-nao-report-statutory-funding/
- Published: 2005-06-28T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has welcomed the National
Audit Office’s (NAO) report on the funding relationship between government and the
voluntary and community sector.
Stuart Etherington Chief Executive of NCVO said:“
NCVO welcomes the robust recommendations to government that the NAO has made in 
their report, ‘Working with the Third Sector’.

“There have been some encouraging signs of progress in funding relationships between
the Government and the voluntary and community sector. However, in order to achieve
real change, full implementation at all levels of Government is required, and there
needs to be action on the part of the voluntary and community sector if the 2002
cross-cutting review recommendations are to be fully implemented.”

The NAO’s report included input from NCVO which the NAO had commissioned to research
the experience and impact of government funding practices on the voluntary and community
sector. The research has informed the NAO’s report, Working with the Third Sector,
and has also been used for a parallel report published by today NCVO – ‘Shared aspirations:
the role of the voluntary and community sector in improving the funding relationship
with government.’

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