Supporting and Enabling Voluntary Activity

The Wheels manifesto on the cross-cutting needs of community & voluntary organisations -  was launched on March 28th in Dublin to an audience of TDs and Sector Leaders.

The manifesto  - directed at political parties and politicians in advance of the election - consists of a fourteen-point plan to support and enhance the sector, which if taken on board in the next programme for government will greatly improve the environment in which community and voluntary organisations are working.

The manifesto outlines in detail:

• the supports that the next Government must provide for the sector -  supports similar to those now available to Irish businesses.

• the need for the Government to provide a space to discuss issues relating to the sector.

• the need to provide a  secure environment for charities by enacting regulatory legislation.
  

• the need to establish a new framework for funding the sector to make sure that all state funds are provided on a multi-annual basis and that they are index linked to the pay commitments in the national agreement so that organisations can pay their staff fairly.

The Wheel encourages all members to make use of the document in your own advocacy activity around the general election and bring the issues to the attention of the candidates and their parties. 

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• A4 version, PDF 599KB

• DL version, PDF 161KB