Community empowerment

Howard Lake | 23 May 2008 | Blogs

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• Office of the Third Sector
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I was at a meeting this week – the North East Social Capital Forum, since you ask – where a Civil Servant was holding out great hopes for the forthcoming Community Empowerment.

The following day the Guardian carried an opinion piece suggesting that the Bill was a waste of space.

If we set aside our ingrained cynicism, do we think there is anything within the Government’s power that will positively encourage active engagement with the broad community?

I hear conflicting reports from charities on the ground – some say the age of the volunteer is dead and buried, while others are recruiting, training and engaging as fast as their facilities will allow!

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.