This paper presents a rapid assessment of current and likely future impacts of the COVID-19
outbreak on rural economies given their socio-economic characteristics. Drawing principally …

Welfare conditionality has become an idea of global significance in recent years. A 'hot
topic'in North America, Australia, and across Europe, it has been linked to austerity politics …

As volunteering and its benefits gain global recognition, social policymakers can sustain and
increase volunteering through social policy, legislation and other types of involvement. A key …

What kinds of care are being offered or withdrawn by the welfare state? What does this
mean for the caring practices and interventions of local activists? Shedding new light on …

There has been extensive concern about the effect of recession and of subsequent public
spending austerity on the voluntary sector–but a lack of comprehensive sector-wide data to …

This paper proposes a framework to guide research and analysis of informal care building
on, and developing, earlier ideas about “caringscapes” and “carescapes.” We use the …

This paper derives from a study of community food aid in a multi-ethnic, multi-faith city in the
North of England. The paper begins to make sense of the diversity of types of food insecurity …

What is charity? How does it operate, who does it benefit and what should we expect it to
do? This important book helps to tackle the most common misunderstandings and …

Literature in the field of employability and the third sector has focused upon the impact of
marketisation on third sector providers, elaborating how commissioning processes have led …

Policy perspectives of the European Union as well as those of member states currently link
the concepts of social investment and social entrepreneurship in order to advocate both …