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I’d like to meet the person who invented competitive tendering for the voluntary sector (or whatever we are called today). Despite keeping my head down and getting on with the job, the joy of a competitive tendering exercise has finally landed on my desk and it feels a bit like a tidal wave.
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Unlike businesses, I have no desire to screw our clients for all I can get and retire to my yacht
How good to read Debra Allcock Tyler in
Third Sector recently. The last thing I want CA Plus to become is a ‘business’.
The idea that charities are inefficient and useless, and we should all learn
from the smart and clever business world, is really quite hilarious given recent
economic history. Yes, there are some very nice businesses out there, and
yes we will be efficient, we will manage risks, focus on quality etc; but I
have no desire to screw our clients for all I can get and then retire to my yacht.
There have to be limits to this financial uncertainty
On days like this I need to remind myself
that if I really did have perfect knowledge of the future, what an awful world
this would be.
It’s a new financial year and, as always, a bit of uncertainty is
fine. But there are limits. Trying to plan and make decisions on spending when
you have little idea of the income is quite a challenge.
Plan B has been up my sleeve for years
So it begins – time to start blogging. Although my daughter
is seriously impressed, I confess I’m not sure a blog about life in the murky
depths of the local voluntary sector will grab the headlines, but many small
organisations face the same issues that I face, so it may help a little.
