A WOOTTON Bassett charity company has been chosen to help with a university course.

Mark Freeman, chief executive of outsourcing company Charity Business, has been invited to contribute to South Bank University's new Master in Voluntary Administration course.

It has been designed specifically for the charity sector and is intended to become the principle management qualification for voluntary sector chief executives.

It will be the first time outsourcing for charities will have been dealt with academically.

Charity Business was set up to provide specialist services to charities and voluntary organisations.

Mr Freeman said: "I feel privileged to be contributing to the South Bank University MVA."

Professor Paul Palmer, the director of the University's Centre for Government and Charity Management, said outsourcing is an essential tool for modern charity management which should be used more in the sector.

"The new MVA is all about providing learning that can be applied directly and practically in the charity workplace," he said.