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The voluntary sector in the UK: characteristics and some contemporary challenges

The voluntary sector in the UK: characteristics and some contemporary challenges. John Mohan Professor of Social Policy and Co-Director, Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham mohanj@bham.ac.uk. Some comments on the strengths and limitations of voluntary action.

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The voluntary sector in the UK: characteristics and some contemporary challenges

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  1. The voluntary sector in the UK: characteristics and some contemporary challenges John Mohan Professor of Social Policy and Co-Director, Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham mohanj@bham.ac.uk

  2. Some comments on the strengths and limitations of voluntary action • “charity always does too much or too little: it lavishes its bounty in one place, and leaves people to starve in another” (John Stuart Mill, 1848) • "it took the first half of the 20th century for the country to recognise that charities could not provide the services that a modern society needs; and the second half to realise that the state by itself could not do so either. Both charities and state were needed.” (Malcolm Dean, The Guardian, October 2013) • “the map of social action in Britain is a vibrant kaleidoscope of institutions and organisations, competing and combining, developing effective local responses to local needs” (David Cameron, 2006)

  3. Popularity of charitable causes

  4. Principal income sources, UK charities

  5. Charity deserts? Ratio of charitable organisations to population, England, 2010 Or, as William Gibson said: “The future is out there, it’s just not evenly distributed”

  6. Distribution of charitable resources: charity-population ratios cross-classified with median charity incomes, 2010

  7. Charity begins at home? Distribution of organisations working at the neighbourhood scale, by IMD

  8. Public Funding Proportion of voluntary organisations receiving public funding

  9. Local variation in volunteering: Place Surveys, 2008

  10. Local variations in voluntary action: volunteering and unemployment in census output areas, N Ireland

  11. Components of civic core: shares of volunteering, participation and giving to charity

  12. Distribution of core and non-core groups by IMD

  13. Charity dates of establishment, 1900- www.shaw-trust.org.uk

  14. Proportion of charities experiencing year-on-year declines in income

  15. Median growth of income, 1998-2008, by initial (1998) income

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