The Sector Background

There are over 30,000 voluntary and community sector groups in the North West who employ over 50,000 people

and work with 100,000s of volunteers. The sector is now seen as an important part of delivering the Government Service Strategy.


It has been recognised at senior level that the sector has been unable to invest in its own development due to continued poor funding at local level.


Funding has become available for infrastructure development from sources such

as "change up" and "Social Enterprise Partnerships". However, there remains a real challenge to influence local funder's and to encourage organisations to withdraw from total reliance on strategy funding.



Social Enterprise is gaining a reputation as a vehicle to develop funds via trading in goods and services for a social purpose.










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