Margaret Bolton is a freelance consultant specialising in voluntary sector policy. She has undertaken consultancy projects for a range of organisations including the Charities Aid Foundation, the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, the Home Office, the Cabinet Office, and the Smart Company.  » More on clients and projects  

Previously Margaret was Director of Policy and Research at the National Council of Voluntary Organisations. She led the organisation's work on charity law reform and was subsequently seconded to the review of charities and the wider not-for-profit sector at the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York, and a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. » More biography

She has worked on a broad range of topics including health and social care, housing and homelessness, the arts, and generic voluntary sector issues including funding and fiscal treatment of voluntary organisations.  » More on expertise