National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)
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Research is needed to assess effectiveness of paying trustees, says law group
Tania Mason
18 May 2012
18 May 2012
Tags: Remuneration | Trustee boards
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, 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.
Gareth Thomas won some senior charity sector support yesterday after criticising coalition ministers for not representing or listening to sector concerns well enough.
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.
St Mungo’s has pulled out of the Work Programme after receiving no referrals from any of its three prime contractors.
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.
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Labour peer questions NCVO's lobbying value to the charity sector 2
Vibeka Mair
11 May 2012
11 May 2012
Tags: Umbrella bodies
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.
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.