Trustee Exchange 2012
22 Feb 2012
Call for emergency action on youth unemployment 3
Jonathan Last
6 Feb 2012
6 Feb 2012
Tags: Human resources
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Hayday to quit Charity Bank after ten years
6 Feb 2012 | Tania Mason
Malcolm Hayday has announced his intention to step down from Charity Bank, the social finance institution that he helped to set up ten years ago.
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Hayday to quit Charity Bank after ten years
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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”.
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Beryl Hobson leaves Charity Commission to start consultancy
Tania Mason
6 Feb 2012
6 Feb 2012
Tags: Human resources
The Charity Commission’s head of large charities, Beryl Hobson, has quit the regulator to start up her own governance consultancy.
Staff at the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator are more motivated than they were, have a greater personal attachment to the organisation and are more confident in the board’s vision for the future, according to a new survey.
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Youth United gets £1m from government to train adult volunteers
Kirsty Weakley
2 Feb 2012
2 Feb 2012
Tags: Volunteering | Statutory funding
Eric Pickles has announced that his Department for Communities and Local Government will give a coalition of youth volunteering bodies £10m to train 2,700 new adult volunteers.
Three UK-based charities are placed amongst the top twenty best NGOs in the world in a report by the Global Journal.
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Blears to push Hurd on definition for social enterprise 2
Vibeka Mair
2 Feb 2012
2 Feb 2012
Tags: Social enterprise
Labour MP Hazel Blears plans to write to minister for civil society Nick Hurd urging him to consider a statutory definition for social enterprise, after he recently confirmed that the government had no plans to introduce one.
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Shaw Trust examines merger with Work Programme prime contractor
Tania Mason
1 Feb 2012
1 Feb 2012
Tags: Mergers | Collaborations
The Shaw Trust and Careers Development Group, two of the UK’s biggest welfare-to-work charities, are considering a merger.
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Community energy lobby presses government for huge scaling up
Tania Mason
1 Feb 2012
1 Feb 2012
Tags: Campaigns
The National Trust and the Women’s Institute are among a coalition of civil society groups that are meeting Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne today to press for massive expansion of community energy projects across the UK.
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