During PMQs today the prime minister said that it had been condescending to describe charities and social enterprises as “the third sector” – before going on to rebrand them (patronisingly) as “the first sector“. Why not just call them charities?
I will certainly have those conversations with the Treasury, and we will want to do everything we can to help what used to be called, rather condescendingly, the third sector but I believe is the first sector: the excellent charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises that do so much for our country…so often these first sector organisations have the right answers to the social problems in our country.
Jim Pickard
Kiran Stacey