Charity Commission

Charity Commission

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www.charity-commission.gov.uk

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Beryl Hobson, Professional Governance Services

The Charity Commission’s head of large charities, Beryl Hobson, has quit the regulator to start up her own governance consultancy.


Latest draft financial reporting standards now out for consultation

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.

Rowena Lewis, fellow, Clore Social Leadership Programme

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 , Charity Commission chair delivers speech at breakfast briefing

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.

I hardly think Acevo's chair Lesley-Anne Alexander helps by claiming that we need to 'move on from the bra-burning debate'... Acting to polarise the women's movement by trying to frame the activists as 'over zealous' and 'bra-burning' is completely out of line. All too often women aren't judged on their merits because boardrooms are a closed shop where white men invite other white men to join.

» Voluntary sector is 'failing its women'

Council wants to transfer sport and leisure services to a charitable trust

Durham County Council is considering putting its leisure centres, libraries and theatres into a charitable trust as a way to save money.

The implications of Wikimedia's successful registration as a charity

Following Wikimedia UK's registration as a charity last year, Tom Murdoch discusses the implications for the sector.

Sam Younger, chief executive of the Charity Commission

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.




High Court closes children's charity after Charity Commission investigation

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.

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