Vision Changing Charity
RNIB in Socio-Political Context 1970-2010
by Iain Bruce
Paperback (No longer our product)
(February 2023)
ISBN: 9780718896409
Price: $41.00
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The recent history of RNIB and its role in the wider UK charity sector.
Accessible versions of Vision Changing Charity: RNIB in Socio-Political Context 1970-2010 by Ian Bruce are available on request from RNIB. Please contact us through our Helpline: Call 0303 123 9999, email helpline@rnib.org.uk or say: “Alexa, call RNIB Helpline” to an Alexa-enabled device. The late twentieth century saw charities grow from timid service deliverers into major providers with campaigning teeth. What caused this? How did they gain confidence and strength? In this fascinating history, examined through the eyes of RNIB from 1970 to 2010, Ian Bruce examines the internal drivers and the external socio-political environment that allowed and encouraged this explosion. Bruce’s experience of leading a charity at the forefront of this change, and his participation in the wider charity sector for fifty years as both activist and academic, gives him an unsurpassed understanding of what happened and why. His first-hand knowledge will speak to charity workers as well as academics, covering themes such as the rise of beneficiary power against patronising providers; the change from welfare to rights; the shift from the medical to the social model of disability; and the adoption of social welfare and business professionalisms such as Strategic Planning and Charity Marketing. Today’s charities have much to learn from the successes and mistakes of this dynamic period.
- By (author) Iain Bruce
"Too often organisational histories gloss over tensions. Ian does not hold back from describing the extraordinary story of how the unsighted took over from the sighted. An extraordinary case study reflecting on the challenges and changes in the charity sector since the 1970s. A must read for any person interested in change." Professor Paul Palmer, Bayes Business School "The strength of this well-crafted account of the RNIB's recent history is the way in which Ian Bruce relates the story of the Institute not only to the context of disability politics but also to wider movements in the voluntary sector and society as a whole. This is a must read." Sir Stuart Etherington, Chair, Oversight Trust "This book will be of consuming interest to students of the British welfare state and its complex and shifting relationship with the voluntary sector. Thanks to Bruce's personal qualities, not least his remarkable empathy with blind and partially sighted people in all walks of life, it will also be compelling reading for those like myself, activists campaigning for the improvements he did so much to bring about." Fred Reid, Hon. Professor of History, University of Warwick and long-time trustee of RNIB "Having a strong interest in the work of charities of and for the blind and partially sighted, I found the book fascinating on three fronts: the leaps and bounds that the charity sector experienced in the 40-year period, the internal debates and animosities that took time and societal nudges to resolve, and finally the international/national link for campaigning and political and social change." Pay Danahey Janin, University of Essex, Colchester, Uk, In Insternational Society for Third Sector Research (Voluntas), March, 2024
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