Trustee Exchange 2012
22 Feb 2012
Impact group: charities could allocate percentage of funding for impact measurement 6
Vibeka Mair
23 Jan 2012
23 Jan 2012
Tags: Impact reporting
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Voluntary sector is 'failing its women' 7
26 Jan 2012 | Tania Mason
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.
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Voluntary sector is 'failing its women'
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The Inspiring Impact Group, a coalition of voluntary sector bodies seeking to provide collective leadership on measuring impact over the next 10 years, is considering encouraging funders to allocate at least 5 per cent of funding to evaluation and measurement.
David Philpott returns to East Africa to see the fruits of aid spending first-hand in Uganda.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has asked the NCVO to feed in to him personally, any examples of disproportionate or unfair local authority cuts to voluntary sector budgets.
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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Council wants to transfer sport and leisure services to a charitable trust 4
Kirsty Weakley
19 Jan 2012
19 Jan 2012
Durham County Council is considering putting its leisure centres, libraries and theatres into a charitable trust as a way to save money.
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UK computing charity opts to manufacture product abroad 3
Kirsty Weakley
19 Jan 2012
19 Jan 2012
Tags: Taxation
Production of a cheap educational computer by UK charity the Raspberry Pi Foundation is underway, but the first batch is to be produced in China to save money.
Charity shop tax benefits have come under fire from a Tory MP in a backbencher debate about the future of the British high street.
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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