Charity Commission
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The Charity Commission’s head of large charities, Beryl Hobson, has quit the regulator to start up her own governance consultancy.
The Accounting Standards Board has published the new draft financial reporting standards, incorporating the standard for public benefit entities into the wider financial reporting standard.
Seven in ten voluntary sector employees are female, yet just over four in ten charities are led by female CEOs or chairs. And in charities with turnover of £10m or more, women are in the top jobs at just 27 per cent of them.
Dame Suzi Leather has urged charities not to run marketing campaigns that focus on minimal overheads and says it is charities’ collective responsibility to educate donors on the necessity of running costs.
Durham County Council is considering putting its leisure centres, libraries and theatres into a charitable trust as a way to save money.
Following Wikimedia UK's registration as a charity last year, Tom Murdoch discusses the implications for the sector.
Opening a statutory inquiry into a charity will be very much a last resort for the newly-slimmed-down Charity Commission and will be reserved for the most serious of cases such as those involving fraud, terrorist activity, or risk to vulnerable beneficiaries.
The Charity Commission has published an inquiry report into the Needy Children International Foundation, which was forced to wind up last year, after Vince Cable called a trial requesting the High Court to close the charity as a result of the Commission’s investigation.