# Sweet Charity: Role and Workings of Voluntary Organisations

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/sweet-charity-role-workings-voluntary-organisations/
- Published: 1996-11-07T22:23:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The world of UK charities has been transformed. Gone are the days when charities
gained the majority of their money from rattled tins. **

Fundraising is a sophisticated art and charities often manage multi-million pound
contracts to provide services. Those who manage such organisations are expected 
to adapt to an ever-changing world.

_Sweet Charity_ is about this changing world; the skills needed to manage, fundraise,
run a successful lobbying campaign or attract new work and the way in which UK charities
will increasingly operate in a European environment.

Broadly divided into three parts, this book first describes the size and scope of
the voluntary sector, how it operates and the ways in which changes to the welfare
state have had a direct effect upon how charities operate.

The second part breaks down the constituent parts of charities, looking in turn 
at the role of trustees, managers and fundraisers, financial staff and marketing
experts.

Lastly, the book deals with UK charities in a widening European context.

_Sweet Charity_ will attract an extensive readership from trustees and managers 
of voluntary organisations to academics, students and commentators on the voluntary
sector.

## Reviews

“Both the new trustee and the weary secretary would do well to make themselves familiar
with the issues expertly analysed here.”
**Mark Latimer**, National Lottery Charities
Board, in Trust & Foundation News