James Rees's blog

The Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership held its annual conference on 9 July 2019. In this blog, Dr James Rees, the former Director for the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership, discusses some of the key conversations that took place and outlined two significant outcomes.

The Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership provides an update on their work to date, including, their involvement in the Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference 2017, their production of a series of blogs and details of two literature reviews completed by the team.

Dr James Rees is the former Director of the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership in The Open University Business School. In this blog, he reflects on the current successes of the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership, highlighting four key projects that he and the team are involved with.

'Government now appears, frankly, to be sclerotic and disengaged. That's not to say it doesn't remain an important stakeholder with some key functions, but what does it mean for the sector if it cannot or will not take a real lead?' This blog is written by Dr James Rees, former Director of the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership.

Research conducted by The Open University Business School’s Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership shows that the public trust in smaller charities far exceeds that of their larger counterparts. This blog is written by Dr James Rees, the former Director of the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership.