Archive - Sep 2009

The second phase of the Real Help for Communities: Modernisation Fund grants programme has opened. Organisations that have already received support under the first phase are invited to apply for grants worth £10,000 that will help them to collaborate or merge.

This document is a summary of responses received to the consultation “The Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO): Consultation on the new corporate form for charities” which was undertaken jointly by the Office of the Third Sectorⁱ and the Charity Commission in the last quarter of 2008.

As part of a package of support from Government to help maximise the social value the third sectorⁱ creates, the Office of the Third Sector (OTS) has published three tailored guides to Social Return on Investment (SROI), which supplement 'A guide to Social Return on Investment', published in May 2009.

Oxford Economics was commissioned by Communities and Local Government (CLG) to provide a summary paper pulling together its existing analysis of the impact of migration on regional economic performance in the context of current economic conditions.