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Stop bending over backwards for corporate partners 4

13 Jun 2013 | Denise Lillya

Charities often bend over backwards in delivering value and partnership for companies, but should they? Denise Lillya says it’s time for companies to view philanthropy for what it is: giving, not receiving.

Stop bending over backwards for corporate partners

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Sir Stephen: Politicians use BIG for their hobby horses 3

Vibeka Mair
5 Jun 2013

Tags: Grants & Grantmaking

Sir Stephen Bubb, chief executive of Acevo, has suggested that the Big Lottery Fund is used to fund some politicians’ “hobby horses” and has called for it to be reconstituted as a charitable foundation.

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£4bn could be generated in charitable legacies if solicitors just asked 2

Niki May Young
28 May 2013

Tags: Legacies | Individual giving

A potential £4bn of funding could be unlocked for the charity sector if solicitors were to remind those writing a will to consider giving to charity, according to a study conducted by the Cabinet Office’s behavioural insights team.

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New charity aims to be the CRUK of mental health research 2

Celina Ribeiro
29 May 2013

A new charity, backed by a £20m pledge from the Wellcome Trust, is aiming to do for mental health research what Cancer Research UK has done for cancer.

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Cabinet Office has awarded £150k to Society Network Foundation since 1 April 2

Tania Mason
4 Jun 2013

Tags: Statutory funding | Accountability and transparency

The Cabinet Office has awarded a further £150,000 to Society Network Foundation since 1 April this year, and gave Big Society Network £350,000 last year, on top of the £199,900 Social Action Fund money paid in 2011/12, Nick Hurd has confirmed.

These enormous sums, apparent lack of process or control, the impression of pals lining each others' pockets, and dissemblance (at best) combine to look more than scandalous.

» Shadow minister wades in to Big Society Network funding controversy

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Study reveals early impact of legal aid cuts on advice charities 2

Niki May Young
11 Jun 2013

Tags: Spending Cuts and Recession | Funding | Statutory funding

An early study into the impact of legal aid cuts in the UK's most deprived area has revealed that 91 per cent of advice-giving charities believe they are providing a lower level of service than prior to the cuts.

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African education charity wins Overall Award at Charity Awards 2013 2

Tania Mason
14 Jun 2013

Tags: Charity Awards

A charity that has built 22 secondary schools in Uganda and Zambia and educated over 8,000 youngsters so far since 2008, has taken the top prize at the Charity Awards 2013.

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Additionality concept still intact but practice is under review, says BIG 1

Tania Mason
24 May 2013

Tags: Funding | Trusts and foundations

The Big Lottery Fund has denied that its recent grants to Citizens Advice Bureaux and Home-start charities breach the additionality principle that prohibits the lottery from funding services that the government has a statutory responsibility to provide.

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Why are the poor more generous than the wealthy? 1

12 Jun 2013

Tags: Individual giving

On average poorer people give more of their income to charity than the wealthiest in society. Steven Dilworth of Foresters unpicks why, and if it really matters.

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