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Find out more about Office of the Third Sector policy work. 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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August

• 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