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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 […]
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 […]
VSSN New Researchers Online Session – April 2025
Dear New Researchers We trust that you are doing well. Our next online session will be taking place on the 2nd of April (Wednesday) 13:00 – 14:00. During the meeting, we’re excited to be welcoming Rob Macmillan, Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR), Sheffield Hallam, with over 20 years’ experience in researching […]
VAHS Conference 2025. Deadline for Papers.
The Voluntary Action History Society conference will take place at the University of Liverpool from 2-4 July 2025. The deadline for papers is 15 March 2025. Full details on the theme and how to submit an abstract can be found on the website: https://www.vahs.org.uk/events/conferences/
Hold the Date – 2025 Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference
This year’s conference will be held on 3rd September and 4th September 2025 at Bayes Business School, London. More details will be added soon
