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Inspiring Impact, a UK-wide collaboration between eight organisations, developed and delivered in partnership with the non-profit sector, wants your thoughts on the impact measurement tools you think are important to the sector.

The long-term vision of Inspiring Impact is to make high quality impact measurement the norm for charities and social enterprises by 2022. This includes measuring social impact and using the data produced to manage and increase impact and share findings.

The Minister for Political and Constitutional and Reform, Mark Harper has published a summary of responses to the Government’s recent consultation, entitled Introducing a Statutory Register of Lobbyists, which sets out the Government’s next steps in terms of policy development. 

The consultation, which One East Midlands responded to on behalf of our members, was open from 20 January to 20 April 2012. The Government will now develop revised policy proposals with the intention of publishing a White Paper and draft Bill during this session of Parliament.

In response to the crisis of youth unemployment Derbyshire Learning & Development Consortium has brought together organisations that work with young people to create the East Midlands Youth Alliance (EMYA), co-led by One East Midlands.

The Big Lottery Fund and NCVO have teamed up for the Assist programme, a new £6million initiative that will help VCS support and development organisations adapt to the changing needs of the frontline.