One of the more interesting aspects of the Party
Conferences are the extensive fringe meetings that take place around and about.
Certainly better than listening to much of the leaden "oratory" of
the politicians in the Conference Hall.
Yesterday was a bumper crop- a good session organised by
the Charity Aid Foundation where there was an interesting collection of
speakers. David Babbs (no relation!) the Director of 38 Degrees gave a
fascinating speech and outlined why we have to oppose the so called Lobbying
Bill and Gareth Thomas MP spoke about Labour ideas on volunteering. He made an
interesting point about the need for the third sector to encourage staff to
volunteer. And another speaker suggested we ought to be ensuring all our staff
is in payroll giving. I'm going to take this back to ACEVO staff to discuss.
But course one of the highlights yesterday was the acevo
fringe. A nice photo of my dear departing Deputy Dr Kyle (he leaves this week
for his new role as CEO of working for youth).
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