Alex Le Vey | December 5, 2011
I am essentially, a free market thinker. I love the concepts of choice and competition, and believe strongly that when applied, and supported correctly, these concepts result in better products and services. This belief does not seem to be shared amongst many in the sector, and it seems to be widely thought that if charities [...]
Alex Le Vey | November 3, 2011
A big ambition of the current Conservative-led Coalition Government is to encourage more not-for-profit organisations (NFPs) to bid for public service contracts and run public services. To me, this is a really fantastic idea, and will strengthen public services in the United Kingdom, if services become cheaper to the tax-payer as a by-product, even better. [...]
Alex Le Vey | September 18, 2011
I would like to use this, my first post, to give you a brief overview of philanthropy in the UK (as I see it), and a broad introduction to Empath UK. Philanthropy comes in many different forms in the UK, with different people supporting different causes in a number of ways. Two well known ways [...]