Enabling Legislation Programme

The purpose of the programme is to strengthen the non-profit sector's ability to:

Challenge the structural causes of poverty;
Continue to establish precedents on effective lobbying and communicate the benefits of these to the sector;
Make statutory funding (the NDA and lottery) more accessible to NPOs;
Create a more institutionalised parliamentary presence to represent the NGO sector's interests in relation to legislation that impacts on financial sustainability;
Create an enabling fiscal and legal environment for increasing revenue and reducing expenditure;
Create incentives for company and private giving;
Have access to review adverse decisions, including judicial review;
Regulate the sector in a pro-active and non-adversarial manner

Lobbying and Research Communication and Training Resources

The Enabling Legislation Programme

The Non Profit Partnership has extended the considerable networks, skills, lobbying and advocacy capacity and competencies it has built up through the Tax Campaign, to influence the range of legislation that will impact directly or indirectly on your organisation's financial sustainability.

The purpose of the programme is to strengthen the non-profit sector's ability to:

Challenge the structural causes of poverty
Create an enabling legal and fiscal environment for increasing revenue and reducing expenditure for the NPO sector
Create incentives for company and individual giving
Have access to review decisions adverse to the sector, including judicial review
Regulate the sector in a pro-active and non-adversarial manner

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