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This section includes news updates on new policies, campaigns, consultations, recent achievements and various intiatives by the Office of the Third Sector.

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September

• New Deputy Director of Strategy joins Office of the Third Sector
• Tender opens for work to support creation of new third sector research centre
• Phil Hope thanks Oxford volunteers who helped out in floods crisis
• Phil Hope records message for GoldStar volunteering events
• Last chance to nominate volunteers for annual Queen's Award
• Stoker steps down at Commission for the Compact
• Popularity of volunteering and giving revealed in extensive national survey
• £30 million Community Assets programme launched

August

• Phil Hope pays tribute to volunteers who helped out in floods crisis
• 15 social enterprises short-listed for Enterprising Solutions Awards
• GoldStar volunteering programme goes on the road
• Leading thinkers to outline their ideas for the future of social enterprise
• Consultation on £10 million social enterprise risk capital investment fund launched
• Government responds to Community Assets consultation
• Tender opens for £215 million Futurebuilders fund manager
• Innovation Exchange seeks new director

July 2007

• Prime Minister sets out 10–year vision for how government can support a thriving third sector
• Launch of campaign to find new social enterprise ambassadors
• Innovation Exchange to be delivered by consortium
• Research on measuring a thriving local third sector
• Y Llywodraeth yn penodi Cymro newydd i Fwrdd y Comisiwn Elusennau
• Government announces new Welsh appointment to Charity Commission Board
• Office commissions survey on social clauses
• New ministerial positions for the third sector
• Further information about appointments relevant to the third sector

June 2007

• New report on measuring the impact of social enterprise
• Research into business support provision for social enterprise
• New director of third sector commissioning appointed
• £70 million fund to transform youth volunteering
• Government announces four new appointments to Charity Commission Board
• Proposals sought for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy research centre
• Government's launches consultation on measures to increase the take-up of the Gift Aid tax relief
• Government puts £3m behind the voice of social enterprise
• Third sector access to finance report published
• Access to finance for social enterprises on a par with mainstream business
• Charities Act 2006: consultation on implementing audit, accounting and reporting changes
• Consortium win tender to deliver Social Enterprise Ambassadors programme
• Government welcomes 1,000th Community Interest Company
• Communities and Local Government unveils strategy for third sector
• New project to encourage children to think of others
• Project to encourage diverse range of NHS volunteers
• Ministers support Volunteers' Week

May 2007

• Discussion paper on the tender for the second phase Futurebuilders Fund published
• Government pledges support for community management and ownership of public assets
• Office of the Third Sector appoints four Deputy Directors to spearhead new team structure
• Government consults on reinvesting unclaimed assets
• Concise guide to the Charities Act 2006

April 2007

• Launch of the 2007 Enterprising Solutions Awards
• Charities Act 2006 – Regional events
• Competition launched for partner to deliver new social enterprise ambassadors programme
• Office of the Third Sector recruitment
• Government to tender for delivery of second phase of Futurebuilders Fund

March 2007

• Big Lottery Fund to manage £30m Community Assets Fund
• Social enterprise business support development
• Competition launched for partner to deliver £1.2m programme to help develop third sector innovation
• No changes to business rate relief for the third sector
• Plans to help the sector access £700m in unclaimed Gift Aid
• Small community organisations to get £80m – and other third sector Budget announcements
• Futurebuilders Advisory Panel publish their first progress report on the Futurebuilders fund
• Thousands of UK's smallest charities to benefit from reduced regulation
• Third sector funding and the Olympics
• IDeA to train 2,000 local commissioners on involving the third sector in delivering services
• Cabinet Office Ministers visit ‘early intervention city’

February 2007

• Implementing the Charities Act – first commencement order published
• Expressions of interest sought for social enterprise think pieces
• Become a member of the Office of the Third Sector's VCS Advisory Group
• Social Enterprise Strategic Funding

January 2007

• Advanced notice of £2.4m social enterprise strategic funding opportunity
• £200,000 government pilots to help social enterprises raise private sector investment
• Together Government and social enterprises can improve millions of lives – Ed Miliband
• Ed Miliband pledges £1.5m for Scouts' Centenary

December 2006

• Action plan for third sector role in public services and interim report on Third Sector Review published alongside Pre–Budget Report
• Community investment tax relief (CITR)

November 2006

• Compact annual review
• Launch of new action plan for social enterprise

October 2006

• Ed Miliband launches £2m centre for research into what makes people give to charity
• Five hundredth Community Interest Company (CIC) registered
• Campbell Robb appointed new Director of the Office of the Third Sector

September 2006

• Time's running out to make your views count
• Cabinet Office pledge £1m to increase volunteering among the socially excluded
• Ed Miliband pledges £1.1 million to promote volunteering among hard–to–reach groups

August 2006

• First Commissioner for the Compact appointed
• Ed Miliband announces new £300,000 scheme to increase private investment in social enterprise

July 2006

• Ed Miliband welcomes first anniversary of Community Interest Companies

June 2006

• Partnership model promises public services tailored to individual needs
• Next chair of the Charity Commission announced