Ministry of Defence cuts £350,000 forces helpline funding 3
A charity-run helpline that allows frontline soldiers to make freephone confidential calls direct from Afghanistan, has had all its funding axed by the Ministry of Defence.
Charities often deliver services through funding agreements with a local authority, NHS Primary Care Trust or even a government department.
Though still a relatively new phenomenon, encouragement from government has made public service delivery and reform an increasingly common activity for charities.
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A charity-run helpline that allows frontline soldiers to make freephone confidential calls direct from Afghanistan, has had all its funding axed by the Ministry of Defence.
Charity Finance editor Andrew Hind has joined a new independent panel of sector leaders who will examine and report on the sector’s independence over the next five years.
The Home Office has issued a Q&A to explain the reduction of funding to voluntary sector agencies that support refugees and asylum-seekers.
The government’s new £100m Transition Fund will not give grants to infrastructure organisations whose main mission is to support other civil society groups, the BIG Fund said today.
The Department for Work and Pensions has announced it wants charities and community groups to look at setting up or supporting local Work Clubs to help unemployed people secure work – but is not offering any funding to help them do so.
Housing minister Grant Shapps has announced that over £400m in grants to tackle homelessness will be made available to local authorities and the voluntary sector.
Francis Maude and Nick Hurd have written an open letter to civil society groups in which they say they are determined to ensure that public spending cuts are “fair and not disproportionate in their impact on the sector”.
Navca chief Kevin Curley has sent an angry letter to Charity Commission chief executive Sam Younger attacking his recent exhortation to the sector to “move from a grants mentality to a contract mentality”.
The £100m transition fund announced by the government will be targeted at service-delivery organisations that have low levels of reserves and high dependence on public funding streams that are particularly vulnerable to budget cuts, civil society minister Nick Hurd said today.
The government plans to spend £470m over the next four years building the capacity of the voluntary sector to deliver the Big Society, it announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review today.
Nick Hurd has told charities involved in public service delivery to expect longer contracts of up to ten years, payment-by-result models funded by the private sector, the end of full cost recovery and less money available for grants.
Asylum-seeker clients of Refugee and Migrant Justice are taking the Justice and Home Secretaries to court in a bid to force the government to stump up close to £1m to cover the costs of transferring their legal cases to other lawyers.
The government reconfigured the Office of the Third Sector to the Office for Civil Society to reflect “the important job of building the Big Society”, civil society minister Nick Hurd said last night in his first public speech in his new job.
Civil society organisations are facing a worrying period of insecurity as a hung parliament appears nigh on certain, many sector commentators warned today.
The Conservatives have revived an abandoned proposal to re-name the Office for the Third Sector the Office for Civil Society, and has pitched the voluntary sector as key to delivering its Big Society agenda.
The Conservatives have emphasised ‘Big Society’ solutions to its recurring complaint about broken society in its manifesto, but offered little new strategies for the voluntary sector.
The Westminster City Partnership has ended ten years of partnership with the voluntary sector, by voting to relegate voluntary and community representatives to a powerless advisory role with no voting rights.
Charities will have more opportunity to win government contracts under a Conservative government, but it will also be expected to deliver much greater productivity and scale, Shadow Chancellor George Osbourne told a summit of civil society leaders yesterday.
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.
Many voluntary adoption agencies are worried they will have to close down as a new report reveals that a fractured relationship with local authorities is resulting in fewer contracts and fewer children being placed in adopted families.
Conservative MP Oliver Letwin has said the Tories will ask the voluntary sector to go beyond its current capacity if it wins the next election.
The most optimistic scenario for the voluntary sector in the next public spending round is overall funding cuts of “hundreds of millions if not billions” of pounds, whichever party gets into power, according to a new report by CFDG.
A Conservative MP has admitted that there will be “pain across the public sector”, even in areas protected against spending cuts.
Acevo and the NHS Partners Network have successfully lobbied for an inquiry into a Primary Care Trust’s decision to only accept tenders for running its community services from NHS organisations.
A new centre dedicated to research into charitable giving trends and third sector issues has finally opened in London.
Fundraisers at organisations with incomes of less than £3m can now benefit from a new drop in clinic, hosted on a monthly basis by the Foundation for Social Improvement.
Everyclick has altered its Memorandum of Association so that it is no longer required to give 50 per cent of all its revenue to charity.
The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) has announced the creation of a 'task group' to improve co-ordination between Scotland's third sector, local authorities and government.
Grassroots voluntary sector organisations remain concerned about their income levels despite the government's recent commitment to increase funding at a local level, according to two new pieces of research.
The inclusion of sexual violence targets within the government's new Public Service Agreements could be the catalyst for reversing the decline in funding to rape crisis centres, according to some voluntary sector groups
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