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Eugene Halliday

The SU-VOC Application
Fred Freeman (Edited by Eugene Halliday)

Description:
"SU-VOC" is an acronym for "Society of United Voluntary Organisations within Community".
On the basis of "where there is a will there is a way", The SU-VOC Application suggests that in the United Kingdom, with the support of necessary widespread influential leadership, here termed the "SU-VOC Confederation", significant progress could be made to achieve the following aim:

to achieve an organisation throughout the country which allows the human beings involved to co-operate with the greatest efficiency and with the least friction, and where there is a sense of common purpose between all individuals and groups.

The SU-VOC Application has an extensive index and appendices, and outlines some possible steps and procedures based on grass-roots democracy which might assist progress.

Following private circulation of the first edition of The SU-VOC Application, in 1983 a national charity was formed with the name "United Way of Great Britain" (later renamed "United Funds'). The author was one of the two founders of this charity and its Honorary Treasurer. The other founder was the then Chairman of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations.

The work of United Way of Great Britain led directly to the Government's legislation in 1987 and 1988, known as the "Payroll Giving Scheme", which simplified tax-relief on charitable payroll giving, This led to the development of a close association with Charities Aid Foundation and to the introduction of the Give As You Earn and other payroll giving schemes.

Republished in 1983 by United Way of Merseyside (National Division). Softback, 306 pages (including 166 pages appendices and index).

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