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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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Impact group: charities could allocate percentage of funding for impact measurement

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.

Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

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.



200 charities left in the lurch as Charity Business goes under

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.




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.

If you don't get the top job at your charity or company then challenge your board/employer or move somewhere else. Don't hang around complaining as that definitely won't get you anywhere. Or, if all else fails, set up your own organisation and make yourself CEO - like men do, every day.

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MP calls for review of charity shop benefits

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 & Associates website

Mark Freeman, the former chief executive of collapsed outsourcing agency Charity Business, has launched a new consultancy called Mark Freeman and Associates.

Call for emergency action on youth unemployment

Tackling youth unemployment should be a priority for all sectors, says Acevo CEO Stephen Bubb, as a new report by the Commission on Youth Unemployment warns that the issue has reached “emergency point”.

Government commits £1bn to new waterways charity

The government has announced a 15-year funding deal worth £1bn for the Canal & River Trust, the new charity that evolved out of former quango British Waterways, which is set to launch in June.

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