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CSR take a back seat for Generation Y
For years we've been saying that a strong CSR policy can be a valuable recruitment and/or retention tool for the brightest and the best. This is quite a worrying piece of research - anyone have anything to back it up or contradict it?
Cabinet Ministers to encourage volunteering
So, cabinet ministers will be asked to lead by example, pledging to volunteer for one day a year. Is this intended to avoid blunders like Francis Maude's answer to the 'What volunteering do you do' question, or will it actually make a difference?
Jamie Ward-Smith
Time will tell! This is part of the wider civil servants drive which aims to generate 300k hours of volunteering time - I wonder who is helping them to match that, any ideas?
Business Connectors and the Big Society
I've been trying to find out more information about this programme for some time now and have just managed to find this. I am worried that it seems like yet another duplication, with VCs/Cares etc already doing just this...
The idea is to work in partnership with Business Connectors and get them to complement existing frameworks, only time will tell how effective this will be






