Protest and polite policemen, but no posters, please: a day inside the Climate Camp

By Rosie Walker, Third Sector Online, 11 August 2008

Third Sector reporter Rosie Walker spends a day at Climate Camp 2008 in Kent and finds charities are keen to keep their presence low-key among the protesters and the police.

"It's not comfortable for government to have the third sector ranged against it, but that is part of what democracy is about," said Ed Miliband, then third sector minister, in a 2006 speech to charity directors. Last year, the Cabinet Office's Third Sector Review announced a rewrite of Charity Commission...

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