# 70,000 jobs lost in Third Sector – institute of Fundraising – how big is my society now?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/01/10/70000-jobs-lost-third-sector-institute-fundraising-how-big-my-society-now/
- Published: 2012-01-10T14:53:21+00:00
- Author: John Baguley

Simon Morrison at the Institue of Fundraising today quotes a survey on the results
of funding cuts in the Third Sector. Knowing the cuts will bite with more force 
later this year and next it sounds the death knell for any lingering doubts that
Cameron’s talk of creating a big society was anything less than a empty diversion.

The sector has, however, failed to rise to the challenge to develop and implement
new fundraising strategies. Instead Gaynor Humphreys of London Funders reports many
trust receiving fewer applications and I see a dearth of effective major donor programmes
despite the rich having regained their wealth. Instead, organisations across civil
society appear to have their heads in the sand waiting for the cuts to fall before
building up alternative income streams, and then having spent their reserves on 
the inevitable redundancy payments instead of investing them early in fundraising
programmes. We see many last minute cries for help well past the time when action
would have been truly effective.

So, fundraisers now it is up to you to save the day given no investment and no time–
I feel for you!

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John Baguley

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