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Politics Special: The Conference Season - Charities are back in the party mood By Mathew Little, Third Sector, 17 September 2008
With an election looming, charities are flocking to party conferences in hope of shaping policy.
The Campaign for Rural England’s budget for this year’s party conferences stands at £11,000, but Ben Stafford, head of campaigns at the charity, doesn’t think it will be enough. “We have budgeted for £11,000, but we’ll probably exceed that and we are not sponsoring adverts in the fringe listings or…
