History of Earlier Events

6 March 1996 – At Manchester University.  Hosted by Peter Halfpenny and Duncan Scott.  Speakers:  Nicholas Deakin (Barbara Rodgers Memorial Lecture on ‘The Future of the Voluntary Sector’); David Hulme ‘International Development NGOs’ and Stephen Young ‘Agenda 21’.  

13 November 1996 - At Aston Business School.  Hosted by Stephen Osborne of Aston and Nicholas Deakin of Birmingham University. Speakers: Sarabjaya Kumar ‘The Changing Accountability Relationships of National Charities in the Contract State’; Marilyn Taylor ‘Changing Relationships between National and Local Government in Italy and Britain’.

16 April 1997 - At Liverpool University?.  Hosted by John Lansley. Speakers: Pat Starkey ‘The Medical Officers of Health, the Social Workers and the Problem Family: The Case of Bristol FSU; Debra Morris ‘Proposed New Legal Structures for Voluntary Organisations: A Critique'.

5 November 1997 -  At the Open University.  Hosted by Rob Paton and Jill Mordaunt. Speakers: Duncan Scott and Lynne Russell ‘Very Active Citizens – But why do volunteers seem to be marginal or invisible in the contract culture?’; Maureen Macintosh ‘Flexibility and Risk in Social Care Contracting’.

28 April 1998 – At National Centre for Volunteering. Hosted by Justin Davis of the Institute for Volunteering Research and Mike Locke of the Centre for Institutional Studies at UEL.  Speakers: Natalie Fenton, University of Loughborough on ‘Trust’; Justin Davis Smith and Pat Gay, ‘Volunteering and Employablity’.

24 November 1998 – At Charities Aid Foundation. Hosted by Cathy Pharoah.  Speakers: Pete Alcock ‘The Impact of Funding Regimes on Voluntary Sector Organisations in Sheffield and London’; Cathy Pharoah ‘Local Authority and Voluntary Sector Views on the position of the voluntary sector in Local Regeneration Initiatives’.

1 June 1999 – At Loughborough University.  Hosted by Natalie Fenton.  Speakers: Ruth Lister,: ‘Strengthening Citizenship through the Voluntary Sector’; Chris Miller, ‘The Professionalisation of Social Life: Voluntary Organizations the Unaccountable Sector?’

23 November 1999 – At Birmingham University.  Hosted by Pete Alcock.  Speakers: Allan Young  ‘A Volunteer Profile of a Formal Voluntary Organisation’; Lucy Gaster and Angus McCabe, ‘History, Strategy or Lottery: Local Government and Voluntary Sector Relations in the 1990s’

9 May 2000 – At University of Greenwich.  Hosted by Philip Holden.  Speakers: Debbie Hayes (Greenwich), ‘Crisis Management amongst Arts Organisations’; Catherine Walker (CAF) ‘Business Leaders and Charity: The First UK Survey of Business Leaders’ Personal Involvement with Charities, Voluntary and Community Organisations’.

8 November 2000 – At the Centre for Civil Society, LSE. Hosted by Helmut Anheier. Speakers:  Nicholas Deakin (LSE) and Justin David Smith (Institute for Volunteer Research), ‘Antagonists or Allies: Labour and the Voluntary Sector’; David Lewis (LSE), ‘Reflections on Voluntary Action in Comparative Perspective: Revisiting Rural Bangladesh’; Open discussion on ‘Teaching on the Voluntary Sector in the United Kingdom’ introduced by Helmut Anheier (LSE), Aday Kay (London Business School) and John Hailey (Oxford Brooks).

2 May 2001 – At the University of Manchester. Hosted by Duncan Scott and Peter Halfpenny. Speakers: Margaret Reid, (Manchester) ‘Challenges of the Funding Environment for Medium-sized Voluntary Organisations’;  Katie Brotherston (Manchester), ‘The Potential Economic Impact of the Social Economy and its Contribution to Regional Regeneration’; Duncan Scott (Manchester), ‘Making a Case for Case Studies of Voluntary Organisations’, Peter Halfpenny (Manchester), ‘A Sociological Analysis of Philanthropy’.

5 November 2001 – At University College, London. Hosted by Les Hems. Speakers: Mick Wilkinson and Marilyn Taylor, ‘Willing Partners? Voluntary and Community Organisations in the Democratic Process’; Susan Wainwright (NCVO), ‘The Development of Methodologies to Evaluate the Impact of the Voluntary Sector’.

15 May 2002 – At Aston University, Birmingham. Hosted by Margaret Harris. Speakers: Pete Alcock, ‘Mapping the Regional Voluntary Sector: the Role of Qualitative Data’; Ben Cairns, ‘Meeting the Challenges of Engagement: Voluntary Organisations and Regionalisation’; Pauline Munro, ‘New Deal and the Voluntary Sector: The Scottish Experience’; Romayne Hutchison and Colin Rochester, ‘Realising the Value of Older Volunteers? Some Lessons for Volunteer-Involving Organisations’.