Trustee Exchange 2012
22 Feb 2012
Hundreds of charities may have lost the ability to accept online donations after web-based donation service Charity Choice upgraded its website and changed the links from charities' own sites.
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.
The Health Lottery has fought back against criticisms made of it by Sir Stephen Bubb and claimed that the National Lottery in effect gives only 10p in the pound to charities – and most of that in London.
Almost half of users who start an online donation fail to complete it, according to a new report which urges the sector to adopt a more personal approach to online donations.
Charities should be wary of regaling donors with too many facts and figures about the impact of their work because giving is often irrational and ruled by emotion, a leading economist has warned.
Charity shop tax benefits have come under fire from a Tory MP in a backbencher debate about the future of the British high street.
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”.
A 21-year-old music student has highlighted the issues of greed and wastefulness in the light of other
people's poverty in a 5-minute film called 'Live Simply'.