Perspectives on Scotland’s third sector impact By Jane Cullingworth The impact event On June 11 2025, over 70 people from a diversity of backgrounds came together to talk third sector impact at the University of Glasgow. The leadership for the day was provided by VSSN, working with an enthusiastic steering group of representatives from the […]
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Empowering Charities to Campaign: Navigating Legal Challenges in the Third Sector. By Tilly Clough (Queen’s University, Belfast)
In today’s world, charities play a vital role not only in providing services but also in raising their voices to advocate for societal change. However, this essential role is often complicated by legal constraints. For many charities, the fear of crossing legal lines – sometimes unclear or inconsistently enforced – creates a “chilling effect” on […]
VAHS Conference 2025 Registration Now Open
The Voluntary Action History Society’s Conference, ‘New Ways of Doing Voluntary Action?’, will take place at the University of Liverpool from 2-3 July 2025. Full details are available on the website https:/www.vahs.org.uk/events/conferences There are still places in the programme for late-application speakers, and there is a small fund for bursaries for speakers. If you are […]
Thinking of submitting an abstract for the conference, but not sure where to start?
Call for papers, panel sessions and workshops The Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference 2025 theme is Creating Change Together: Civil society working beyond sector and organisational boundaries This will take place on 3–4 September 2025 (with New Researchers session on 2 September) at Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London, UK Thinking of submitting […]
VSVR conference 2025 Call for Papers – Drop in session on the 6th May
Call for papers, panel sessions and workshops The Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference 2025 theme is Creating Change Together: Civil society working beyond sector and organisational boundaries This will take place on 3–4 September 2025 (with New Researchers session on 2 September) at Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London, UK Thinking of […]
Upcoming Workshops on Digital Inclusion for Disabled Volunteers – London (5 June) & Salford (12 June)
From Daiga Kamerāde, Professor in Work and Well-being , School of Health & Society Director of Research Centre for Inclusive Society, University of Salford I’m pleased to invite you to a practical, in-person workshop exploring digital inclusion for disabled volunteers, based on findings from the Digitvol research project. We are running two sessions: London – Wednesday 5 June (12:30–4:00pm, […]
Registration open for Voluntary Action History Society Conference 2-3 July 2025
Voluntary Action History Society’s 8TH International Conference: ‘New Ways of Doing Voluntary Action History?’ University of Liverpool, UK, 2-3 July 2025 Registration now open VAHS is pleased to announce that the registration for its 8th International Conference is now open. This is a ‘boutique’ conference which will take place over two days rather than the […]
SAVE THE DATE: Perspectives on Scotland’s Third Sector Impact
Perspectives on Scotland’s Third Sector Impact For those who do, use or commission research about volunteering or community and third sector organisations Following the wide-ranging events that take place in Volunteers’ Week in Scotland in the preceding week of June, this day event will cast a critical eye over the many facets of impact that […]
Organisational records: An interdisciplinary summer school in July 2025
Researching voluntary and community organisations, charities, NGOs and philanthropy using organisational records: An interdisciplinary summer school for doctoral and early career researchers 15 and 16 July 2025, London We are delighted to announce that we are holding an interdisciplinary summer school for doctoral and early career researchers at University College London on 15 and 16 […]
