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200 charities left in the lurch as Charity Business goes under 4
12 Jan 2012 | Tania Mason
Charity Business, the agency that provides outsourced financial back-office services, has ceased trading, leaving around 200 small and medium-sized charities without services and around 20 staff without jobs.
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200 charities left in the lurch as Charity Business goes under
One of the owners of Charity Business, the outsourcing agency that collapsed this week, is also the general manager of a benevolent charity that is one of Charity Business’s biggest clients.
Christian Aid has “disestablished” its head of fundraising role as part of a new approach to fundraising which emphasises integration with church groups and campaigning.
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Celebrity patron Tom Hardy helps save homelessness charity from closure 2
Niki May Young
20 Jan 2012
20 Jan 2012
Start-up homelessness charity Flack has saved itself from closure by raising more than £45,000 within a month, after its trustees lost confidence in its ability to generate funds.
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.
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Marketing focused on low overheads is counter-productive, says Dame Suzi 1
Niki May Young
25 Jan 2012
25 Jan 2012
Dame Suzi Leather has urged charities not to run marketing campaigns that focus on minimal overheads and says it is charities’ collective responsibility to educate donors on the necessity of running costs.
London-based community development charity Cambridge House has taken possession of the electronic data of 48 clients of the wound-up outsourcing company Charity Business.
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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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Big Society 'has led to misleading perceptions of big charities' 3
Vibeka Mair
13 Jan 2012
13 Jan 2012
Tags: Big Society | Public service delivery
Large charities including NSPCC, RSPCA and the Red Cross have been talking about how to alter public perception that the Big Society is all about big charities guzzling up public sector contracts.
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