Robert Ashton outlines the benefits of investing in community development finance institutions.
Labour has called upon the government to provide a £1m research fund for charities to develop policy on the long-term mental health effects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Malcolm Hayday has announced his intention to step down from Charity Bank, the social finance institution that he helped to set up ten years ago.
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”.
An independent investigation into alleged financial irregularities at Charity Business has revealed that the company raised no fixed-fee invoices for the period May to September 2011 until October, meaning it failed to declare around £50,000 of output VAT in the correct VAT period.
Minister for employment Chris Grayling has confirmed that official statistics on the Work Programme, including referrals data, will be published for the first time on 21 February 2012.
The Co-operative Bank has reaffirmed its commitment to provide charity credit cards following last week's announcement by Lloyds Banking Group that it will stop providing them at the end of February.
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.
Over £9m of an overall £20m has been awarded in the first window of the Social Action Fund to 16 projects in England.
Ealing Council for Voluntary Service has received the largest grant from the £30m Cabinet Office programme for local civil society support organisations throughout England.
Eric Pickles has announced that his Department for Communities and Local Government will give a coalition of youth volunteering bodies £10m to train 2,700 new adult volunteers.
Three UK-based charities are placed amongst the top twenty best NGOs in the world in a report by the Global Journal.
Allocating time appropriately between strategy and operations is, says John Tate, the key to business success.
Peter Holbrook explains why he wants to more actively engage consumers with social enterprise.
The Shaw Trust and Careers Development Group, two of the UK’s biggest welfare-to-work charities, are considering a merger.
Minister for civil society Nick Hurd has said organisations that feel there are ‘serious grounds for complaint’ in how the Compact is working should take it up directly with him.
Increasing concern by charities over public liability risks has been documented in a report released this week by sector insurer Ecclesiastical.
Audit new business wins January 2012: Fresh advice
Citizens Advice appointed its new auditor following the resignation of Baker Tilly which wanted to include the organisation's pensions deficit in its books. Vibeka Mair runs through this and other audit new business wins that took place in Dec 2011 - Jan 2012.
The Community Development Finance Association has called on government to enshrine support of community finance as an HM Treasury remit, as part of its new campaign to build the community finance sector.
The Prince of Wales is today meeting with members from youth charities, both at his Clarence House base and in South London, to discuss the issues young British people face.
A failure to treat people with mental health problems and help them back into work costs society £67bn annually, says New Philanthropy Capital, which is calling on funders to help scale up mental health prevention charities which operate in the workplace
Charities could be responsible for 'orphan' pensions liabilities, born from unconnected organisations. David Davidson offers his advice to prevent an outcome as seen in the Wedgwood case.
How to develop better relationships with commissioners
Contract commissioners don’t set out to be difficult. Rui Domingues outlines how to develop a better mutual understanding.
Ian Allsop stakes his claim for the gold medal in the 2012 cynicism marathon.
Charity Finance senior reporter Vibeka Mair compiles a comprehensive guide to common investment prices from the past month.
Dismissal for refusing a pay cut
Deborah Nathan examines the thorny issue of employers cost-cutting via pay cuts.
ELTO: making workplace insurance easier
The Employers’ Liability Tracing Office aims to make tracing workplace insurance easier for all parties, according to Mike Rafferty.
Charities should beware of property leasing for tax avoidance
Property owners should make sure they are fully aware of the facts when entering the world of charity relief renting, writes Nick Ivey.
Could do better: Charity 100 Index February 2012
The Charity 100 Index continues to rise but – mirroring last year’s lacklustre performance – it is still falling short of both its quarterly and annual benchmarks, finds Diane Sim.
Guide to tendering for an auditor
A practical guide from Helena Wilkinson on how to undertake an audit tender process.
