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Twelve irresistible reasons for offering extended services, by Matthew Freeman.

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WORKING WITH THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR AND BUSINESSESS This page lists documents and links to information and advice about working with the voluntary sector and businesses to offer extra-curricular and extended services.

Getting down to business   Do lucre and learning mix? or is the relationship between schools and business a compromising one? Tom Sheppard writes...

Trust Youth    This is an active citizenship programme designed to encourage and enable young people to make a difference within their communities. Trust Youth is also working to raise the profile of the voluntary sector within schools and to encourage more young people into volunteering.

Directory of Social Change   Provides resources and publications (many free) for every aspect of the voluntary sector. Also offers training. You need to register to access free material. DSC charges for its courses and other materials.

Legal Eyes: The Independent Safeguarding Authority and the new Vetting and Barring Scheme   Charities that work with children or vulnerable adults need to know about the new Independent Safeguarding Authority’s vetting and barring scheme which will launch in October.

CSV's online resource library   Research, publications and information from Community Service Volunteers on all aspects of volunteering including management and recruitment.

Trustfunding website   Subscribe to access four thousand trusts that grant over £3.5 billion annually. 

Young Chamber: Student to business contact   Schools can use the Chamber of Commerce network to access hundreds of businesses in their areas or to start their own Young Chambers. The Young Chamber Council represents school students and offers them enterprise information; Young Chamber helps to make contact between students and businesses easier, is non-prescriptive, student-owned and business led.