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Last updated: 23 November 2008
The Government launched the third sector review to look at the role of third sector organisations in social and economic regeneration.
The review was carried out by the Office of the Third Sector and HM Treasury as part of the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review. The final report of the review sets out plans to promote the partnership between the Government and the third sector. Most of the measures will be led by the Office of the Third Sector, which will invest more than £515 million in third sector programmes to support thousands of community organisations across the country.
The main aims outlined in the report are to help give third sector organisations a greater voice and to work with the sector to strengthen communities, transform public services, encourage social enterprise and support the conditions for the sector to thrive.
More details of the review are available in the third sector review section of the website:
The Office of the Third Sector commissioned a number of background papers during the third sector review, to stimulate discussion of some of the themes of the review.
A paper looking at how financial support should be provided to local voluntary and community organisations, prepared by the Young Foundation.
A paper on the relationship between Government and third sector campaigns, prepared by Campaigning Effectiveness, NCVO and the Shelia McKechnie Foundation.
A paper on the use of new web technologies as tools for campaigning, by Charles Leadbeater.
(These papers were produced by independent authors and organisations to stimulate consideration of the issues and debate, and do not represent Government policy or the views of the Office of the Third Sector.)
A paper documenting case studies showing the role of cooperatives and mutuals in the regeneration of the third sector, by the Rt Hon Alun Michael MP.