“Following the emergency budget we now know the huge scale of the cuts in public spending and the tax rises over the next five years. We are heading into a frightening era of the unknown. The cuts in particular will have an enormous impact, and charities that depend on public sector funding face great uncertainty. But, despite this, it is not all doom and gloom, and there are many opportunities appearing through the haze of new policy”. Says Lawrence Simanowitz in a policy analysis of the Coalition and the third sector has been produced by the Charity and Social Enterprise Department of Bates, Wells and Braithwaite London LLP.