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Tuesday Feb 20, 2007
Destination 2014
Consultation lovers will, no doubt, already have discovered the Destination 2014 website. It's where you can have your say about the plans of Capacitybuilders in the aftermath of their decision to play a more central role in running the voluntary sector infrastructure at the expense of the sector Hubs.
NCVO, one of the organisations that stands to lose most from the Hubs reduced role, has produced an interesting briefing about the Destination 2014 document, welcoming some proposals but expressing strong concerns about what appears to be an extension of Capacitybuilders role.
3.4 Capacitybuilders appears to have given itself a much broader focus, describing its vision for the sector as a whole, and setting out its remit in a way which goes substantially beyond its agreed mission... And yet the consultation does not ask whether voluntary and community organisations agree with the role Capacitybuilders sees for itself and how it plans to move forward and achieve change and its key objectives. Capacitybuilders needs to seek agreement with the sector as to where it should prioritise its energies, in order to then determine its operational activities.
It will be interesting to see how many people express similar comments throughout the consultation, and how Capacitybuilders - an organisation launched only a year ago and currently funded solely by government - responds.
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