# Voluntary Sector in Transition: Hard Times or New Opportunities?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/voluntary-sector-in-transition-hard-times-or-new-opportunities/
- Published: 2013-06-29T09:54:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Voluntary and community organisations have moved to the centre of political debates,
as the UK government reduces the scope of the state and locates solutions in civil
society. **

This book explores the extensive growth and re-shaping of the voluntary sector following
sweeping changes to social and welfare policy over 30 years. It draws on contemporary
social and organisational theory and debates to consider whether surviving in the
voluntary sector now depends on re-aligning activities and compromising independent
goals and values.

## About Linda Milbourne

Linda Milbourne is a senior lecturer in Youth, Voluntary and Community Sector Studies
in the School of Social Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London.