A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain

Hilton, Matthew; Crowson, Nick; Mouhot, Jean-François; McKay, James R.

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“…Social economy organizations have a long history of providing social and welfare services in the UK: the Elizabethan Statute of Charitable Uses (1601) defined the meaning of charitable purposes (Anheier, 2005; Dunn and Riley, 2004) and the first cooperative, the Rochdale Society of equitable Pioneers, was established in 1844 (Birchall, 1997). The population of registered nonprofit organizations in the UK increased between 1970 (76,648) and 1979 (132,303) (Hilton et al , 2012), and from 2001 (152,696) to 2017–2018 (166,537), peaking in 2007-2008 (171,074) (NCVO, 2020a, Table D6). The increase has been attributed to social and economic trends – the unemployment rate for 16 year olds had risen from 3.6% (1974) to 11.8% (1984) (ONS, 2020) – and the hope was that social economy organizations would “fight against unemployment and social exclusion” (OECD, 2003, p. 15).…”

Section: The Uk Social Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Social economy advancement: from voluntary to secure organizational commitments to public benefit

Haugh

2021

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Purpose This paper aims to explain the development of the social economy by analyzing when, why and how the community interest company (CIC) legal structure was established in the UK. The CIC legal structure was designed for social enterprise to ensure that company assets are committed to public benefit in perpetuity. Design/methodology/approach This research paper uses archival data and semistructured interviews to analyze the historical development of the social economy, emergence of social enterprise and the establishment of the CIC legal structure. Findings The historical analysis describes why and how the idea for the CIC emerged from practitioners and explains how collaboration between practitioners, lawyers, civil servants and politicians established the CIC as a new legal structure for social enterprise. Practical implications The analysis explains how practitioners influenced policy development and demonstrates how practitioner influence can be usefully incorporated into policy development. Social implications The CIC legal structure advanced the social economy by creating an institutionally recognized brand identity for social enterprise that locks assets to public benefit in perpetuity. Originality/value The paper presents a detailed empirical account of the establishment of a new legal structure for social enterprise and applies theoretical concepts to develop an integrated account of social economy advancement.

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Section: The Uk Social Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Social economy advancement: from voluntary to secure organizational commitments to public benefit

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2021

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“…Reflecting on the historical and political changes affecting humanitarianism, Calhoun () has similarly pointed out that, in contrast to the old fashioned model of charitable practices, since the 1980s organisations have been increasingly concerned with achieving best practice, with many of their executives coming from backgrounds in consultancy, advertising and communications industries. Hilton, Crowson, Mouhot and McKay () claim that the ethos of ‘business’ in the British NGO sector broadly coincided with the Thatcher years, when the government attacked public sector services, expecting NGOs to provide public services, but do so in a manner that increased accountability requirements. A wave of professionalism and managerialism then became further entrenched in the 1990s (Benthall, ).…”

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The Good Samaritan and the Marketer: public perceptions of humanitarian and international development NGOs

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2015

J of Philanthropy and Mktg

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This article reports on a nationwide study investigating public responses to humanitarian communications. Based on focus group data with members of the UK public, the paper discusses two key models through which NGOs identities and activities are understood and judged, both positively and negatively: the Good Samaritan and the Marketer. Thematic analysis of the focus groups extracts exposes the salience of these models in people's thinking, how they speak to each other and how they inform and affect the relationship between NGOs and public. The paper discusses the themes in relation to current debates on organisations' image and trust and confidence in nonprofit organisations and humanitarian NGOs. The data show deep public disillusionment and disappointment deriving from the recognition of the Marketer model being applied to and employed within the realm of humanitarianism. This suggests that NGOs' moving away from traditional notions of charity might be counterproductive and in the long‐term risky. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…The poverty lobby has been the most closely studied, but the phenomenon can be witnessed across other sectors too, from human rights to race, gender, disability, and health, as well as, later, the environment. 107 The humanitarian sector was not immune from these broader changes in the relationship between politics, the state, and the charitable sector. British charity legislation, stretching back to 1601, restricted the ability of organizations to speak out in the public realm in a manner that might be construed as "political."…”

Section: Advocacy and Charitymentioning

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Ken Loach and the Save the Children Film: Humanitarianism, Imperialism, and the Changing Role of Charity in Postwar Britain

Hilton

2015

The Journal of Modern History

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This article offers a critical assessment of British humanitarianism using a case study of the first fifty years of one of its largest charities, the Save the Children Fund ðSCFÞ. It is an exercise the organization was once keen to conduct itself. In the run-up to its fiftieth anniversary celebrations in 1969, SCF decided to commission a film. Very much the "establishment" charity of the humanitarian sector, it nevertheless made a surprising decision to approach the avowedly left-wing, social realist filmmaker Ken Loach, who at that time was arguably reaching his creative peak ðhis most well-known film, Kes, was made in the same yearÞ. SCF did not want a film that simply celebrated the achievements of the organization over the years. It wanted a controversial documentary to be shown on national television that would highlight the problems of poverty in both Britain and the developing world and that would go on to showcase the work of SCF in alleviating suffering. Ideally, it sought to stamp on the public consciousness an association between film and charity like the one created when Loach's Cathy Come Home ðaired as a BBC Wednesday Play on November 16, 1966Þ was followed by the launch of the homelessness organization Shelter two weeks later. 1 Precisely because of Loach's prior success, SCF was happy to grant him free rein. 2 And while it hoped that the film would "reflect credit on the organisation," it knew it was not to be a "direct-appeal film"; indeed, SCF explicitly gave the film company "carte blanche in preparing the theme." 3 Loach took the instruction to heart. After he had visited Kenya to record SCF's activities, it seemed to him that

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A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain

Cited by 66 publications

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Social economy advancement: from voluntary to secure organizational commitments to public benefit

Social economy advancement: from voluntary to secure organizational commitments to public benefit

The Good Samaritan and the Marketer: public perceptions of humanitarian and international development NGOs

Ken Loach and the Save the Children Film: Humanitarianism, Imperialism, and the Changing Role of Charity in Postwar Britain

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