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NICK HURD ATTENDS CSJ BRIEFING
Shadow Minister for Charities, Social Enterprise and Volunteering visits CSJ
Nick Hurd MP, the new Shadow Minister for Charities, Social Enterprise and Volunteering, attended a briefing last week at the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ).
The CSJ conducted extensive research into the voluntary sector which culminated in 2007 with our report "Breakthrough Britain". In a whole section dedicated to the voluntary sector, the report highlighted the crucial role voluntary organisations play in tackling the five pathways to poverty: family breakdown, educational failure, worklessness, serious personal debt and addiction. It outlined the current obstacles facing many voluntary organisations such as a stalled growth in charitable giving and low volunteering rates. In the face of this, the report put forward a wide range of policy proposals to strengthen and advance the third sector; these ranged from the launch of a ‘V-card’ to boost volunteering to advocating a shift from direct to indirect statutory funding.
Nick is no stranger to the CSJ, having previously completed the CSJ Inner City Challenge in 2006 at the Living Well Trust in
The Conservative party green paper is available to view here: A Stronger Society Voluntary Action in the 21st Century.
The CSJ report on the Voluntary Sector is available to view here: Breakthrough Britain -The Third Sector
Picture (l-r): Chris Bullivant (CSJ Projects Director), Nick Hurd (Shadow Minister for Charities, Social Enterprise and Volunteering), Orlando Fraser (Chair Social Justice Policy Group), Philippa Stroud (CSJ Executive Director), Juliette Ash (CSJ Alliance Director)
Posted: 10 November 2008
