National Citizen Service News

The youth volunteering scheme was a hit with young people but there are concerns about its future, the report shows

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Challenge Network chief executive Craig Morley has said Nat Wei, the government's former Big Society tsar and one of the charity's founders, had no influence over its recent £7.1m grant from the Cabinet Office.

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The Challenge Network, a charity founded by the government's former Big Society adviser Lord Nat Wei, received a grant from the Cabinet Office in the last financial year that was seven times bigger than its income in 2010. 

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Minister for civil society Nick Hurd yesterday released a breakdown of who is delivering National Citizen Service to 30,000 young people this summer.

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Department reveals the figure as it begins to sound out the forward market for the youth volunteering scheme

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The Government is today calling on voluntary, business and public sector organisations to play their part in running National Citizen Service schemes in a market that could be worth up to £110 million by 2014. Under the programme, young people from very different backgrounds are brought together into a team for three weeks, with a common objective, to give something back to their local community and achieve something of which they can be proud.

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Civil society minister Nick Hurd says Cabinet Office gave £1.2m to the charity last year

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David Cameron issued a defence of his Big Society vision when he faced questions on his big vision by senior MPs yesterday. The Liaison Committee - made up of the chairs of the main Commons scrutiny bodies - chose Big Society as the focus of its latest session with the Prime Minister. In a session themed "Big Society or Broken Society?", the PM said that the "top-down" model of politics no longer worked and that it "was time to try something different"

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The Prime Minister set out his goals for National Citizen Service at an evidence session on the big society with the Liaison Committee

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The government has confirmed that around half the National Citizen Service pilot projects for 2012 will charge participants either fees or refundable deposits or require them to raise small fundraising targets in return for a place on the scheme.

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