Articles by category - Campaigning
Help us to understand how Nottingham's voluntary sector is faring in a world of cuts, higher demand for services, mixed messages from government and rising social issues.
A two hour breakfast briefing looking at the basics of campaigning, case studies of successful campaigns and tools to help you to campaign on the issues that matter to you.
Nottingham City Council's overview and scrutiny committee are looking to recruit an additional third sector advocate to sit alongside councillors at committee meetings.
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) and the Charities Aid Foundation have begun a campaign against the proposed cap on tax reliefs.
NAVCA have been talking to NCVO about non-financial cuts as part of their work on the cuts.
One East Midlands has pulled together information about all the Members of Parliament in the East Midlands region.
One EM is coordinating a response to the Cabinet Office’s consultation on Introducing a Statutory Register of Lobbyists. The purpose of the consultation is to give all interested parties, including the VCS, the opportunity to comment on the policy options that will underpin the establishment of a statutory register of lobbyists.
At NCVS's campaigning event in October, we asked people from the voluntary sector in Nottingham what they thought about big society. Watch our video to see what they said.
NCVS is compiling information about funding cuts to local services to help us to build a picture of what is happening to Nottingham's voluntary sector and lobby on behalf of local groups.
NAVCA, the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action, has welcomed proposals from the European Commission for revised public procurement directives.
Councillors are elected by the citizens in their wards to represent them in making decisions about how the city is governed, they are also there to challenge the Council’s policies, strategies and plans and be a voice for the communities they represent. In the local elections that were held in Nottingham City in May, more than a third of the councillors elected were new to the role.
The Politics Show East Midlands featured vinvolved Nottingham and local young volunteers in a debate about big society, on Sunday 13 March.
WoVAN, the Women's Voluntary Action Network has written to Theresa May, the Home Secretary and Women and Equalities Minister, to raise awareness of funding cuts threatening women's services.
Emmanuel House, a day centre for the homeless based in Nottingham city centre, has launched an appeal for help.
A new website mapping government spending cuts to the voluntary sector across the country has been launched.
Framework, a local homelessness charity, has initiated legal action against the government and Nottingham City Council over cuts to the Supporting People budget. Supporting People funding pays for frontline services to homeless and other vulnerable people.
A campaign has been set up to strengthen the powers of local charities and community groups to take over an unused building or to bid to take over a failing local service.