Tania Mason

Tania Mason is group editor at Civil Society Media.

She has been a journalist for 20-odd years and has specialised in the charity sector since 2003. Her experience has included stints on Third Sector, Marketing and PrintWeek magazines as well as agency work involving court reporting and occasional doorstepping of celebs for the tabloids. She started her career with five years on a daily newspaper in New Zealand before moving to London in 1993.

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Fast-growing rehab charity restructures to compete for new probation contracts

Tania Mason
10 May 2013

Tags: Public service delivery

Crime Reduction Initiatives, the £80m-turnover drug and alcohol support charity, is restructuring its operations into two distinct divisions in order to capitalise on the government’s new offender rehabilitation agenda.

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Joint registration for HMRC and Charity Commission is getting closer, suggests Hodgson 6

Tania Mason
9 May 2013

Tags: Regulation | Charities Act Review

The prospect of a single charity registration process for both HMRC and the Charity Commission is not far off, Charities Act reviewer Lord Hodgson hinted to a conference audience yesterday.

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Sir Stuart: Charity Commission leaders have lost sector's respect 3

Tania Mason
8 May 2013

Tags: Regulation

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.

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PTA-UK chief moves into new executive president post 4

Tania Mason
7 May 2013

Tags: Human resources | Recruitment

PTA-UK, the umbrella body for 13,750 parent-teacher associations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, is looking for a new executive director as its CEO David Butler prepares to move across to the new role of part-time executive president.

I hope I'm not the only person to think that HMRC is far from an ideal vehicle to regulate charities. HMRC's business is to manage the collection of tax and it currently has difficulties even in doing that. The public perception of HMRC is of people who behave like autocrats (we're always right, you're always wrong) and who cannot provide advice effectively.

» Joint registration for HMRC and Charity Commission is getting closer, suggests Hodgson

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Shortlist is unveiled for Charity Awards 2013

Tania Mason
7 May 2013

A campaign against the use of drones in Pakistan, the regeneration of a huge landfill site into a nature reserve, and a top-performing academy schools network are among 30 inspiring projects shortlisted in this year’s Charity Awards.

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Commission seeks to reassure MPs of its fitness to regulate

Tania Mason
3 May 2013

Tags: Gift aid | Regulation

The Charity Commission’s intelligence function carried out more than 163,000 checks on new trustees in the 2012/13 financial year, over 35,000 of them in relation to new charities.

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Commission may tell donors not to give to late filers 3

Tania Mason
25 Apr 2013

Tags: Accountability and transparency | Audit and accountancy | Regulation

The Charity Commission is considering telling the public not to donate to charities that fail to file their accounts on time.

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Commission could have removed Cup Trust corporate trustee, says lawyer 2

Tania Mason
25 Apr 2013

Tags: Gift aid | Regulation | Taxation

The Charity Commission should have used its regulatory powers to remove the corporate trustee from the Cup Trust and replace it with trustees who live in England or Wales, according to a leading charity lawyer.

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