Aims
NCVO’s stated aims are:
- to bring about a comprehensive understanding of the distinctive value and values that the voluntary and community sector brings to society;
- to ensure that voluntary and community organisations and their users can play the fullest possible part in civil society and in building a diverse, tolerant, just and compassionate society;
- to redefine, develop and improve the relationships and partnerships within the voluntary and community sector and those with the other sectors and the general public;
- to ensure that a voluntary or community organisation, at whatever stage in its development, can access appropriate information, advice and models of good practice easily and quickly;
- to ensure that voluntary and community organisations have access to the resources and personnel they need to achieve their mission and to make the most effective use of those resources.
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