Major donors are generally deemed to be those individuals that give more than £5,000 to charity. Most large charities have major donor programmes where they try to identify, contact, cultivate and then look after wealthy people who might become major donors for their charity.
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A £150m endowment fund for local community projects, which will include up to £50m of government match funding, has launched.
The hierarchy of charities must be broken down if they are to learn from the London School of Economics' independent report into its donations from Gaddafi, says Adrian Beney.
Major donors that give to charity through CAF Charitable Trusts donated more than £100m last financial year, a jump of 25 per cent on the year before.
The British public has the capacity to give more, but there is no consensus as to whether and what tax incentives can encourage more philanthropy, it was evident at a meeting of sector representatives in Westminster yesterday.
CAF Bank has moved to demonstrate the charity sector’s reliance on cheques by revealing that it received 1.7 million cheques worth £471m in the 2010/11 financial year.
As the Treasury Select Committee prepares to review the Payments Council proposal to phase out cheques by 2018, a survey by nfpSynergy and Fundraising has found that a significant proportion of the charity sector is extremely concerned at the impact this could have on their income.
The Treasury Select Committee will reopen its inquiry into plans to phase out cheques after being inundated by public concern and unconvinced by evidence put forward by the Payments Council.
Calls for lifetime legacies to be introduced in the UK have been amplified today, as a consortium of organisations ranging from Oxford University to professional advisers issued a plea for the government to introduce the mechanism as soon as possible.
The end of the road for the cheque?
Sandra Quinn explains why the cheque may be removed from our payments vernacular in 2018 and what the Payments Council is doing to ensure that no organisation, least of all charities, is adversely affected by its removal.
The government plans to "embarrass" banks and their staff into donating more to charities by producing a league table of bankers' donations.
Substantial donors rules change
Draft clauses have been published by HMRC to replace the substantial donor rules for charities. Owen Clutton runs through the effects this could have for your charity.
The government has finally put forward legislation to replace the controversial substantial donor rules, bringing to an end four years of lobbying from charities.
Increasing the tax for the rich will not mean they will start giving away more money to charity, says Adrian Beney.
Scope has begun its first foray into leveraged fundraising with a scheme which will ask high net worth individuals for loans as well as donations.
New Philanthropy Capital is calling for the siphoning off of 20 per cent of Capacitybuilders’ budget to bankroll a fund which will work to improve impact reporting among charities.
The government will commit no more than £75m from dormant bank accounts as initial capital for a Social Investment Wholesale Bank, it announced today in its Pre-Budget Report.
Charities are always looking to recruit 'younger' donors because they think that's what they should be doing. Johnathon Grapsas is here to say 'wrong'.
The Charity Commission is investigating whether the Prince's Trust may have broken charity law after it gave money to an organisation connected to the Conservative Party.
Substantial issues
Don Bawtree reviews the proposed changes to the substantial donor legislation. The deadline for submitting responses to the consultation process on the substantial donor rules has now passed, and we await HMRC's response. We knew that HMRC was aware of the key problems the charity sector faces in respect of this legislation and the suggested changes dealt with some of them.
Substantial donors, substantial problems
New rules relating to transactions between charities and their substantial donors are penalising the wrong parties
The City entrepreneur Peter Cruddas greeted news that he had netted millions from a business deal last week with a pledge to give away £1bn to charity over his lifetime
Rich givings
Are the wealthy different from you and me when it comes to charity?
The announcement in the Budget of a drop in the basic rate of income tax from 22 to 20 per cent will have a huge impact on charities reclaiming tax on donations through gift aid, according to CAF.
In the yearly limelight
A look at the trading issues behind charity of the year partnerships
Substantial donors: the Trojan horse
How new rules regarding substantial donors turned a gift into a poisoned chalice for the Comfort Zone Trust.
In this month's news: RNID report makes impact; new finance qualification launched; major new giving figures; new guidance on working together; and large charities continue rapid growth
Tax efficient giving: throwing down the gauntlet to us all
The UK now has one of the most favourable tax regimes for charitable giving in the world; but there is still work to be done
New research has revealed that charities are increasingly relying on active fundraising. The latest annual Fundratios survey shows an average 3.4 per cent growth in voluntary income, with committed giving up 14.7 per cent in the past year.
Older people are more generous than any other age group when giving to charity, according to new research from CAF
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