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Final words of Compact Commissioner
With the Commission for the Compact being abolished on March 31 2011, its outgoing Commissioner, Sir Bert Massey, in an interview with Third Sector gave these words of warning: "It could be that the Compact will die. Now more than ever we need someone to enforce it, and we've lost that". Source Third Sector 29 March 2011.
Joint Statement from Charitable Funders November 2010
Charitable funders in the North East have issued a joint statement outlining their position regarding public sector cuts. Click here to download it.
Rob Williamson, CEO of the Community Foundation, had this to say.
"On behalf of the North East Trust Secretaries Group, an informal
network that the Community Foundation convenes, we have produced
a collective statement setting out charitable funders' role in
response to the public sector cuts. The purpose is to manage
expectations, both those of grant applicants and those of public
bodies who may all-too-easily assume we can step in to fill gaps."
