The Voluntary Sector and the QMF Project

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The Voluntary Sector and the QMF Project

• Oliver Reichardt
• National Council of Voluntary Organisations

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The UK Voluntary Sector

• 164,000 active general charities
• Total income of 31 billion
• Total expenditure of 29 billion
• Contributes roughly 2 to UK GDP

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The NI Voluntary Sector

• 4,569 active general charities
• 3.4 charities per 1000 people
• Total income of 644 million
• Total expenditure of 619 million

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QMF Project

• Why is the Third Sector involved?
• Why is NCVO involved?
• NCVOs contribution to the project

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Why the Third Sector?

• Government agenda to increase Third Sector public
  service delivery
• Public service delivery action plan
• Commissioning
• Learning from the third sector
• Accountability
• Procurement
• ensuring that contracting and procurement
  processes are fair and proportionate

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Why NCVO?

• Lead Third Sector umbrella body with 5,500
  members
• Relevant policy experience
• TRANSFORM How voluntary and
• community organisations can help
• transform public services
• Capacity building function
• E.g. performance improvement / sustainable
  funding
• Research skills
• Lead organisation building a sound evidence base
  for the sector

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NCVO and the Project

• Ensure involvement of Third Sector in
  methodology
• Ensure concerns and context of Third Sector is
  taken into account
• Research on extent and type of Third Sector
  involvement service delivery
• Dissemination and awareness raising among Third
  Sector organisations

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Government Funding Reports

• Looking at sources of income to the Third Sector
  from government
• Allows extendibility study to focus efforts on
  where there is most Third Sector involvement
• Some difficulties with data collection e.g.
  Information from Northern Ireland

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Further Information

• NCVO Research
• www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/almanac08
• Government funding to the sector
• QMF project webpage on ONS