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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 aim of the review was to work with the third sector to set out a longer term vision for the sector, marking a new phase in the relationship between the sector and the Government.
The Office of the Third Sector and HM Treasury's Charity and Third Sector Finance Unit jointly carried out the review as part of the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review.
The review was overseen by a cross–departmental ministerial group, and advised by a third sector advisory group drawn from organisations across the sector.
The first phase of the review involved the largest ever consultation with the sector – involving over 90 regional events and more than 2,000 people representing over 1,000 organisations across the country. The Government listened and learnt from the views it heard.
An interim report was published in December 2006:
Gordon Brown, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, set out the findings from the consultation in his Pre–Budget Report and announced:
The interim report also set out five key themes for the second stage:
For the second phase of the review, respondents were asked to complete a questionnaire (now closed), and five seminars on each of the key themes were held across the country with experts in the sector. A summary of the consultation responses was published in June 2007:
The Office of the Third Sector also commissioned a number of background papers during the third sector review, to stimulate discussion of some of the themes of the review. These are available in the research and statistics section of this site:
The final review was published on 24 July 2007: