Reports

This guide shows how voluntary and community organisations can get involved with GMCVO and help to build a more influential voice for ther sector.

A short account of the steps taken by Manchester Youth Volunteering Project to close down and transfer its assets to a new organisation.

This report based on a GMCVO event shows the difficulty of capturing social value, no matter which tool is being used.

The government’s new white paper on public service reform provides more questions than answers.

Paper explores the importance of 'marketplaces' in enabling voluntary sector providers and commissioners to 'trade' in the delivery of public sector services.

A short report providing overviews of eleven of the most influential think tanks in the UK has been produced by GMCVO.

Many voluntary organisations in Greater Manchester are having to use their reserves in order to stay afloat amidst the public sector funding cuts, according to a new GMCVO survey.

The involvement of a project which supported small groups to build the confidence and skills of unemployed adults from the most disadvantaged and excluded communities has been hailed a “valua

The Greater Manchester Equalities and Human Rights Parliament calls on the Government to ensure that ‘Big Society’ does not increase existing levels of inequality and disadvantage.

This research report explores removing barriers and improving access to transport for volunteers and volunteer-involving organisations and infrastructure in Greater Manchester.

This research report was funded by DEFRA and carried out by the Rural Resource Unit at GMCVO in 2008.

Briefing on plans for a new Combined Authority, which would take over responsibility for co-ordinating economic development, regeneration and transport provision across Greater Manchester.

On the Edge, a 2007 report by GMCVO’s DEFRA-funded Rural Resource Unit, highlights that rural areas in Greater Manchester often feel marginalised and isolated, not only from the main

A new report from GMCVO's Health Partnership Project provides an insight into the experiences of third sector organisations in Greater Manchester with public sector commissioning.

This report details the outcomes of the first year's work of the Greater Manchester Health Partnership.

As part of the Home Office’s ChangeUp initiative to improve the voluntary and community sector’s (VCS) infrastructure, GMVCO took on the responsibility of conducting a mapping exercise