Sentences with phrase «voluntary sector groups»

Employment will be provided by firms and voluntary sector groups for 25 hours» every week, for six months and the national minimum wage.

An accompanying community right to challenge will also allow community and voluntary sector groups, as well as parish councils and council employees, to bid to take over and improve local council services.

Not exact matches

Grant applicants are required to describe how families and «religious and charitable organizations, voluntary associations, and other groups in the private sector as well as services provided by publicly sponsored initiatives» will be included in the proposed activities.

This voluntary food, flavors and fragrances industries program engages with vanilla exporters, producers, sector organizations and public authorities worldwide to progress issues of governance, traceability, labor rights and technical assistance to grower groups.

Our role as a trusted partner to the voluntary sector is really important to the charities and community groups we work with and we are excited to launch this new service with Tesco's support.»

Bell wrote: «There is a far wider group of non-Blobberati voices across the schools sector, higher education, industry and the voluntary sector, who offer an intelligent critique of where we are now.

She added: «Because Eric Pickles and the government have chosen to hit councils with frontloaded cuts in the first year, far from liberating community groups, the voluntary sector and charities to do more, as the government promises, they may be so hampered they end up doing less.»

We want a government that will recognise the contribution made by secular and humanist groups within the voluntary and community sector.

«What I found in the region was a dynamic group of voluntary sector refugee organisations as well as some excellent, yet under - resourced, counselling and mental health, BME and women's projects working hard to respond to the needs of refugee survivors.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed HMRC's announcement today of # 2 million a year of grants to be given over the next four years to voluntary sector bodies, so that they may provide support and advice to HMRC customers who need most help in complying with their tax obligations and claiming their correct entitlements

One potential for good could be greater engagement with the voluntary sector and civil society groups.

We have also held round tables with green groups, business groups and others who have sectoral interests (including the voluntary sector).

My council has spent more, in total, on grants to voluntary groups, while cutting spending elsewhere, because we believe the voluntary sector offers value for money.

«It is untrue that non-religious people do less for charity; various studies and surveys have confirmed this and is insulting to hard - working secular charities and voluntary groups (which make up two thirds of the voluntary sector) to suggest otherwise.

This voluntary sector agenda fits into the wider Conservative commitment to decentralise power - the agenda of the Direct Democracy group.

«He sees limits on what the voluntary sector, social enterprises and community groups can do... Gordon Brown looks at area where the state has failed and thinks the answer is more state intervention, more of the same.

More broadly Labour should also recognise that voluntary groups and the private sector can achieve what the State can not.

Community and Professional Involvement: Judge, Robson Hall Negotiation Competition at the University of Manitoba Law School; Learning Group Facilitator, CPLED, Law Society of Manitoba; long - time member and supporter of Manitoba W.I.S.E. (formerly LEAF Manitoba), a voluntary sector non-profit organization, which advances the equality of women and girls in Canada through legal education and progressive law based on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Reducing UK hunger will require a collective effort from the voluntary sector, Government, DWP, businesses and the public, and The Trussell Trust is keen to work with all these groups to find solutions that stop so many people needing foodbanks in future.

The qualitative study involved focus group research and one - to - one discussions with community, voluntary, and statutory groups as well as individuals from these sectors.

The London Centre for Psychodrama Group and Individual Psychotherapy offers services in London to the general public and to people in many areas of work including mental health, criminal justice, social services, counselling, youth work, substance misuse programmes, the public and voluntary sectors, schools and universities, therapy and helping professions, business and industry.