Since October 2013, David has been leading his own HR consultancy, providing a tailored outsourced HR service to third sector organisations.
One of the enormous benefits of this industry is that the communications and strategy skills acquired can be transferred across industry sectors from high finance to third sector.
Nick recently co-founded a social enterprise to deliver psychological therapy interventions to the homeless population, and training and evaluation consultancy to third sector organisations serving homeless people.
For Julie Brooks, chief executive of The Conservation Volunteers, who spent 22 years in senior financial services roles before taking over at TCV, transitioning to third sector leadership requires unique skills.
Oh, I almost forgot that the government in various guises pays another £11bn a year to third sector (ie charitable) bodies for the services they provide.
Supporting a thriving, healthy third sector Better mechanisms to drive best practice in funding the third sector, including in the expectation that when government departments and their agencies receive their 2008 budgets, they will pass on that three-year funding to third sector organisations that they fund, as the norm.
The Welsh government's top civil servant says action is already being taken to improve the management of grants to third sector organisations.
The 4.75% rise would be used directly to fund adult social care services, including care for the elderly, and grants to third sector organisations.
"We know it's possible to provide more stability and security to third sector bodies with more straightforward funding processes and three or five year awards.
Referral to social services was commonly mentioned by participants but referral to third sector organisations was not.
They offered self-help booklets and relaxation CDs to patients, sign-posted patients to third sector services, as they judged appropriate, and addressed patients' social problems (see below).
