The fund will help local groups take control of their post office and provide capital for charities and voluntary groups bidding for government contracts.
Moves to allow the private and voluntary sectors to bid to run pilot community payback schemes, including unpaid work, with payment by results.
The government is calling on voluntary organisations to bid for a share of £25m for projects that will improve young people's mental health in schools.
The chancellor said that the new scheme announced in the pre-budge report to help reduce youth unemployment will build on the success of local authorities, private and voluntary sector partners bidding to provide 100,000 new jobs across the country through the Future Jobs fund.
The governance of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should be reinvented within a new voluntary union in a bid to save the UK from disintegration, an independent all-party group of experts will argue this week.
He also pledged that as much as 25% of public service contracts will be handed to the private and voluntary sector in a bid to break up existing public service monopolies.
Bloomberg News reported in June that the S.E.C., after receiving reports that some firms may have been tipping brokers about what bids they should make to win such auctions, asked more than half a dozen banks to conduct voluntary investigations into their bidding practices.
Managing director David Southern and director of football John Murray have agreed to voluntary wage cuts in a bid to help reduce costs at Hearts.
I'm there, one morning a week, in an entirely unprofessional and voluntary capacity to do the bidding of the teacher.
Partnerships between private companies and voluntary sector organisations will be invited to bid to take over the supervision of all low- and medium-risk offenders in 21 contract areas.
