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200 charities left in the lurch as Charity Business goes under 4
12 Jan 2012 | Tania Mason
Charity Business, the agency that provides outsourced financial back-office services, has ceased trading, leaving around 200 small and medium-sized charities without services and around 20 staff without jobs.
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200 charities left in the lurch as Charity Business goes under
One of the owners of Charity Business, the outsourcing agency that collapsed this week, is also the general manager of a benevolent charity that is one of Charity Business’s biggest clients.
Oxfam has launched an investment fund, with social and financial returns, which will target small and medium companies in developing countries by investing in local financial intermediaries which focus on small enterprise development.
Christian Aid has “disestablished” its head of fundraising role as part of a new approach to fundraising which emphasises integration with church groups and campaigning.
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Charity Business CEO was dismissed in October 2011 1
Tania Mason
3 Feb 2012
3 Feb 2012
Tags: Human resources | Audit and accountancy
Charity Business founder and CEO Mark Freeman was sacked by the board of the parent company in October following an auditors’ investigation into alleged financial irregularities, and has since lodged a claim for unfair dismissal.
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Celebrity patron Tom Hardy helps save homelessness charity from closure 2
Niki May Young
20 Jan 2012
20 Jan 2012
Start-up homelessness charity Flack has saved itself from closure by raising more than £45,000 within a month, after its trustees lost confidence in its ability to generate funds.
Ealing Council for Voluntary Service has received the largest grant from the £30m Cabinet Office programme for local civil society support organisations throughout England.
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.
Mark Freeman, the former chief executive of collapsed outsourcing agency Charity Business, has launched a new consultancy called Mark Freeman and Associates.
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