{"id":8596,"date":"2015-05-08T15:38:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T14:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=8596"},"modified":"2015-05-08T15:40:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T14:40:42","slug":"dont-rely-on-politicians-we-should-create-our-own-vision-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2015\/05\/dont-rely-on-politicians-we-should-create-our-own-vision-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t rely on politicians &#8211; we should create our own vision for the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Election ends and a new government begins, it&#8217;s worth thinking what the changes mean for the Voluntary and Community Sector as a whole.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NCVO<\/strong> Chief Executive, Stuart Etherington, wrote an open letter proposing that we create our own direction and destiny, rather than wait for the government to decide it for us.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you are an NCVO member or not, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ncvo.org.uk\/2015\/05\/07\/sir-stuart-etheringtons-letter-to-the-voluntary-sector-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">read his letter here<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ncvo.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/stuart-etherington\/Stuart-Etheringtons-letter-to-the-voluntary-sector-2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">download it as a .pdf here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NCVO have also summarised what Election 2015 means for our sector in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ncvo.org.uk\/2015\/05\/08\/ge2015-implications-for-the-voluntary-sector\" target=\"_blank\">an article on their blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both worth a read to get the context of this week.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-8596\" data-postid=\"8596\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-8596 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Election ends and a new government begins, it&#8217;s worth thinking what the changes mean for the Voluntary and Community Sector as a whole.  Read an impact summary and an open letter from NCVO here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-2eE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8598,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596\/revisions\/8598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}