National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)

National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)

Regent's Wharf
8 All Saints Street
London
N1 9RL
T: 020 7713 6161
F: 020 7713 6300
ncvo@ncvo-vol.org.uk
www.ncvo-vol.org.uk

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Research is needed to assess effectiveness of paying trustees, says law group

Funders with an interest in governance should pay for research to establish whether paying trustees does help to improve charity governance, an influential group of charity law experts have recommended.


Sir Roger Singleton, chair of Diana Memorial Fund

Sir Roger Singleton, a former board member of the now-defunct Capacitybuilders, has expressed doubts over whether its £150m funding of infrastructure bodies actually helped frontline charities during its six-year history.

Thomas lambasts 'lack of leadership' in Cabinet Office

Gareth Thomas won some senior charity sector support yesterday after criticising coalition ministers for not representing or listening to sector concerns well enough.

Baroness Howe of Idlicote, chair of the NCVO Charity Law Review Advisory Group

The Charities Act 2006 has, overall, proved to be a good piece of legislation that is fit for purpose, the NCVO Charity Law Review Advisory Group has concluded.

The mobile phone market is pretty saturated so much new business is driven by switching - and that must be very price sensitive. Will a cause-related offer be sufficient motivation for what is a very broad market?

» RSPCA launches own-brand mobile service

St Mungo's withdraws from Work Programme

St Mungo’s has pulled out of the Work Programme after receiving no referrals from any of its three prime contractors.

Photo credit Nikoretro

It’s two years since Britain voted in the previously unlikely coalition of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Celina Ribeiro tracks the main developments of the coalition’s first half of government.

Baroness Hayter

Baroness Hayter, the new spokeswoman for the shadow Cabinet Office team in the House of Lords, has criticised NCVO for not lobbying on behalf of the voluntary sector when the Welfare Reform Bill was going through Parliament.

Embed charity champions in official statistics services, Hurd told

There should be closer engagement between agencies compiling official statistics and voluntary sector organisations that use them, to better understand the needs of the sector, according to a monitoring brief from the UK Statistics Authority.

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