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Blair launches volunteer corps

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Howard Lake | 29 March 2001 | News

Tony Blair has launched a £19m volunteering group to help the over-50s work with church-based and voluntary groups at local level. Experience Corps will be chaired by Sally Greengross, former chief executive of Age Concern. The Prime Minister made the announcement at the Faith in Politics conference at the Methodist Central Hall in London.

Read Blair invites religious groups to deliver public services by Patrick Butler at SocietyGuardian.

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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.

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