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Introducing the voluntary sector
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Course image: © Katie Hetrick in Flickr https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/.

Figure 1: Aysezqicmeli/shutterstock.com.

Figure 2: selection of covers from organisations annual reports including: Scottish War Blinded (2014).

Figure 3: Syda Productions/Shutterstock.com.

Figure 4: arka38/iStockphoto.com.

Figure 5: Photo of National Lottery logo image: Lucian Milasan/Shutterstock.com.

Figure 6: Headway poster, courtesy Headway https://www.headway.org.uk/.

Activity 2 and Activity 3: extracts from: http://belfastwomensaid.org.uk/ publications/ annual-report-2013. Courtesy: Belfast & Lisburn Women's Aid.

Activity 6 video: courtesy: Cass Business School, City University, London.

Activity 7 video: BBC West Midlands Today https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=mX-p4USOrT4 © BBC 2014.

Some content from this week draws on material by Jill Mordaunt from B191 Working in Voluntary and Community Organisations.

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

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