Sector blog round-up, Oct 06
29th October 2006, 4:09 pm
Finally blog posts covering issues relevant to the voluntary sector in Britain seem to be appearing quite regularly. Here’s some which appeared in our Technorati lists today:
» Blog Archive » London Region ICT Champion: Why London’s voluntary sector needs (and has just got) an ICT Champion.
Paul-Robinson-Howdenshire: Appointment of Gilberdyke Parish Council Funding Officer: Parish Council has employed Charlotte Hursey as a dedicated part time ‘Development and Funding Officer’ working within the Parish (in East Riding of Yorkshire). The role is to establish and provide a funding advice service for local voluntary and community groups.
Socializing: “Social enterprise” in a rut, says: “The Financial Times can’t even tell us how to define social enterprise. Last week’s article, When the good struggle to be great just recycles what seems like the edge of the discussion - Interesting idea, hard to define and isn’t is good people are being entrepreneurial. I personally think this confusion between social enterprise and social entrepreneur, re-told in the article, is unhelpful.”
And a press cutting via Google News:
Funding Concerns Taint Charitys Celebrations (from Watford Observer): A CHARITY’S landmark celebration this week was tainted by funding concerns. Daniel Sturrock became the 1,000th volunteer to register with Three Rivers Volunteer Centre since the national volunteering database was launched.
Plus recently added to the blogroll here: A Cambridge Co-operator Co-operation locally and wider. Over on OpenCharityBlog (blogs BY charities FOR wider public): Mumbles Matters Online community newspaper and forum of the Mumbles Development Trust.

November 2nd, 2006 at 7:08 am
hi i run a small community website in londons kings cross - i focus on ultra local street environment problems in the neighbourhood
http://northkingscross.typepad.co.uk/my_weblog/
am trying to find other people doing something similar to compare notes - have you come across anything in the blog or webo spheres?
cheers
william
November 2nd, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Hi William
Have you looked at the blogs listed on our connected OpenCharityBlog, http://open.charityblog.org.uk/blogroll/? There are one or two neighbourhood focused, which come close. Otherwise, the Neighbourhoods blog by a professional in this area might b ea good starting point - look on the the Links page, or use this link: http://neighbourhoods.typepad.com/neighbourhoods/