The National Coalition for Independent Action is closing because we believe charities will not fight for their beneficiaries and the future for social justice lies in grassroots activismOver the past decade the National Coalition for Independent Action (NCIA) has sought to promote and defend the independence of the voluntary sector. And now,having spent those years saying that voluntary groups were in danger of losing their democratic role as independent forces for positive change and must fight back, we have decided to shut.
We have done our job by sounding the alarm. Nobody can say they had not been warned. When we started, and our message was seen as scaremongering,eccentric and erroneous. Now the consequences are only too visible – charities are under contracts to state and private sector bodies and muzzled from speaking out for fear of losing their funding and seat at the table.
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Source: theguardian.com