Our news  12 Jul 2012

Government invests in third sector workforce development

Skills – Third Sector’s ongoing work to support the development of an ambitious, skilled and adaptable third sector workforce has received renewed government funding of £250,000 for 2012/2013 from the Office for Civil Society.

This will enable Skills – Third Sector, a charity, to continue to work with employers to raise ambition on skills in the third sector and to generate solutions to meet the workforce skills needs of employers. Skills-Third Sector will also continue to conduct research to establish a more comprehensive understanding of the nature of the third sector workforce; build up knowledge of how skills are used and how work is organised in the sector and undertake forecasting and planning for the future skills needs of the third sector.

Keith Mogford, chief executive of Skills - Third Sector says: “We are grateful to the Office for Civil Society for acknowledging our work to date, and the importance of skills to the third sector. This grant will help to ensure that voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations have the people with the right skills to be effective and resilient in meeting the changing needs of society.”

For more media information please contact Deborah Hyde .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) 07956 320 486

Notes to editors

• Skills – Third Sector is the charity supporting the development of a workforce that is ambitious, skilled and adaptable in achieving the objectives of third sector organisations and the communities they serve. For more information about its work, please visit: www.skills-thirdsector.org.uk
• The Office for Civil Society is part of the Cabinet Office, and works across government departments to translate the Big Society agenda into practical policies. It provides support to voluntary and community organisations and is responsible for delivering a number of key Big Society programmes. For more general information about its work, please visit: www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/big-society