Went to a Changing Tunes concert last night. Wow, was it good, and boy, did it reiterate what a mess our prison system is (though I have to say no-one from the organisation was critical of the system per se, it was just apparent in my thoughts afterwards, based on some of the things [Continue]

Ok, so I may be slow, but I have now worked out my bleating about this government’s approach to the voluntary sector a few weeks ago was quite timely. You see, dear old Mr Brown has just screwed the third sector – again. Tax is down to 20% from next year, whoppee! [Continue]

So, the government’s screwed the third sector again. Yet more overspend on the Olympics, so the lottery will be mined deeper still to make up the short fall. For all the talk of supporting the voluntary and community sector, there never appears to be much action. Or money. Take a look [Continue]