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A Historical Guide to NGOs in BritainGovernance and Professionalism

A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain: Governance and Professionalism [When Margaret Thatcher addressed the Women’s Royal Voluntary Service (WRVS) in January 1981, an organisation that was 100 per cent reliant on central government grants for its core funding, she observed that there was no way that Britain ‘could produce statutory services to meet the needs which as volunteers you now satisfy’. Denying that she wanted to make such organisations the ‘creatures of Government’, she nevertheless saw ‘our role’ as being ‘to help you do the administration and work of mobilising this enormous army of volunteers’. This concern of central government to invoke the skills of the NGO sector in the delivery of services was to have a profound impact on the evolution and landscape of this sector. Previous chapters have shown the complexities of the NGO sector and illustrated its expansion since 1945.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
ISBN
978-1-349-33859-7
Pages
347 –357
DOI
10.1057/9781137029027_9
Publisher site
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Abstract

[When Margaret Thatcher addressed the Women’s Royal Voluntary Service (WRVS) in January 1981, an organisation that was 100 per cent reliant on central government grants for its core funding, she observed that there was no way that Britain ‘could produce statutory services to meet the needs which as volunteers you now satisfy’. Denying that she wanted to make such organisations the ‘creatures of Government’, she nevertheless saw ‘our role’ as being ‘to help you do the administration and work of mobilising this enormous army of volunteers’. This concern of central government to invoke the skills of the NGO sector in the delivery of services was to have a profound impact on the evolution and landscape of this sector. Previous chapters have shown the complexities of the NGO sector and illustrated its expansion since 1945.]

Published: Oct 30, 2015

Keywords: Civil Liberty; Voluntary Organisation; Voluntary Sector; Audit Commission; Charity Commission

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