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While management in the charity sector has changed significantly in the past few decades, a reluctance to invest in governance has led to a stagnation of board structure and a lack of diversity, according to Dame Mary Marsh’s review of skills and leadership in the social sector.
Charity governance is stuck in the past, finds leadership review
The Chartered Institute of Marketing has set up a group specifically for charity professionals, but insists that it is no threat to the Institute of Fundraising.
A number of well-known charities have been named as beneficiaries of offshore trusts used to avoid scrutiny from tax authorities, when in fact they have no knowledge or receive no money from the trusts, an investigation has found.
Jonathan Jenkins, chief executive of the Social Investment Business, is reviewing his use of social media in order to minimise perceptions that he has social relationships with people from charities that receive statutory funds on his recommendation.
Research comparing the ‘admin costs’ of charities to their performance claims that on average higher performing charities spend more on administration than their lower performing peers.
Get In, the childhood sports project that Big Society Network’s Social Action Fund grant was supposed to fund, was faltering in quarter one of the grant agreement, yet the Cabinet Office gave Big Society Network a further £98,000 for the project at the end of quarter two, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show.
The Charity Commission is considering telling the public not to donate to charities that fail to file their accounts on time.
NCVO chief executive Sir Stuart Etherington will use a speech today to criticise the leadership of the Charity Commission and warn that it has lost the respect of the sector over the Cup Trust scandal.
The Centre for Social Action’s £14m Innovation Fund has opened today for applications, and is offered to commercial organisations and public sector bodies as well as charities and social enterprises.
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