You are invited to attend a one-hour online session on Monday 26th April 2021 1pm-2pm on the findings of recent research into women leaders’ experience in Welsh sport. The session is aimed at all current, past and aspiring Welsh sport leaders and aims to be useful to both your organisation and the wider sector in […]
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Low-Budget Video Production: Visual Communication for Small Charities
Tot Foster In 2020, Tot Foster was awarded a VSSN Development Opportunity Grant to fund a workshop for charity staff on how to produce videos on a small budget. Here she reflects on the process and sets out how all charities can make use of video, including her new online course. Telling stories about impact, […]
Income Tax Relief on Annual Subscriptions
Members will be pleased to know that they can now claim tax relief on their membership subscriptions as from the 3rd December 2020. VSSN’s name will now appear in the list of approved bodies on Gov.UK. (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/professional-bodies-approved-for-tax-relief-list-3/approved-professional-organisations-and-learned-societies#v) Remember to claim it when completing your tax returns.
Lockdown number 3
Just to keep you all up to date – the VSSN office is open and operating as usual to provide support for members. A programme of events is being organised by the Steering Group for 2021 and our research repository is available for members to keep recording the work you’re all producing during this time […]
Classifying the charity register
To anyone doing research on the voluntary sector, or building services that help voluntary organisations, the size and diversity of activities that charities undertake is always staggering. From a large international charity building relations between Britain and Japan to a small trust maintaining a village playing field, the term “voluntary sector” hides a huge amount […]
IVR hosts free half day on line seminar
IVR hostS free half day online webinar On 20 November 2020, IVR hosted a free half day online webinar for the Voluntary Sector Studies Network with fabulous speakers from Newman University, Leeds Beckett University, UEA and from volunteer involving organisations in Norwich. Volunteering in Health and Social Care in the context of COVID-19: making a […]
Annual Report 2019-20 now available
The annual report can be accessed here VSSN Annual Report 2019-20 FINAL signed
Reflections on the New Researchers Support Sessions
In light of the COVID pandemic, VSSN decided to expand its support to new researchers, with new regular online sessions held to provide space for people to connect and provide peer support. The sessions were hosted by Steering Group members Vita Terry, Jane Cullingworth, and Jon Dean. Sessions were held across the Spring and Summer, […]
Success of our first on line Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference
Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research e-Conference 2020 For two days over 7th-8th September the annual Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research (VSVR) Conference was held online. For more than 20 years the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has partnered with the Voluntary Sector Studies Network (VSSN) to run this conference and this year the Birmingham […]
Steering Group elections 2020
Opportunities to become more involved with the Voluntary Sector Studies Network and Voluntary Sector Review Would you like to support the work of VSSN more actively? Do you have ideas about how you’d like to see the network develop? If so, please consider nominating yourself for a place on either or both of: the VSSN […]
