100 Years of NCVO and Voluntary Action

Justin Davis Smith is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Charity Effectiveness at Cass Business School, City, University of London, UK. He was previously Director of the Institute for Volunteering Research, Chief Executive of Volunteering England, and Executive Director of NCVO. He has previously co-edited An Introduction to the Voluntary Sector (1995), and authored The Attlee and Churchill Administrations and Industrial Unrest (1990).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Setting Up.- 3. Early Years.- 4. Out of Adversity.- 5. Warfare and Welfare.- 6.- Marking Time.- 7. Losing Ground.- 8.- Recovery and Challenge.- 9.- A Golden Age?.- 10. Big Society and Beyond.- 11. Conclusion: Idealists and Realists.- Appendix 1. Key Figures in the History of the Council.- Appendix 2. Select list of organisations supported by the Council.