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.
Voluntary sector is 'failing its women'
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.
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.
Durham County Council is considering putting its leisure centres, libraries and theatres into a charitable trust as a way 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.
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”.
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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