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Letting agents weigh up legal battle with Shelter 5

19 Jun 2013 | Vibeka Mair

Shelter has come under attack from the letting industry over its call to ban letting agency fees for tenants, with the Estate Agency Foundation withdrawing financial support for the charity and letting agents considering a £50,000 “fighting fund” to legally challenge Shelter.

Letting agents weigh up legal battle with Shelter

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Papworth Trust and Workwise to be merged in next six weeks 1

Vibeka Mair
19 Jun 2013

Tags: Mergers

Disability charity the Papworth Trust and Workwise, a charity which supports people with mental health problems, are to merge.

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Charities collaborate to increase private rented housing for disabled people

Tania Mason
19 Jun 2013

Tags: Leadership and strategy | Property | Collaborations

The Housing and Support Alliance has teamed up with the co-founder of moneysupermarket.com and the Centre for Welfare Reform to launch a project to increase the provision of private rented housing for people with learning disabilities.

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Advice charities cutting back face-to-face services

Niki May Young
19 Jun 2013

Tags: Spending Cuts and Recession | Statutory funding | Public service delivery

Leading advice services are being forced to cut back on face-to-face support and place more emphasis on digital and telephone services, a roundtable discussion of advice charity leaders revealed yesterday.

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Man charged over fake charity collection bins

Jonathan Last
19 Jun 2013

Tags: Fraud

A man from Bolsover, Derbyshire, has been charged with fraud after he created 40 clothing bins for a fake armed forces charity.

If this succeeds it will sound the death knell to the gift aid regime, which was set up by the government to encourage donors to give generously by handing across to the charity the basic rate tax that the donor had suffered on the amount they were now giving away. If a mechanism is now found to simply force HMRC to hand over the tax but at no cost to the donor whatsoever (and indeed if you are a higher rate tax payer a mechanism that reduces your tax bill), then the government will have no choice but to shut down the gift aid regime.

» Cup Trust commits to spend all £46m of gift aid on grants if claims succeed

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A Labour government would focus on 'politics of wellbeing'

Jonathan Last
18 Jun 2013

Tags: Big Society | Social

Shadow cabinet minister Jon Cruddas has outlined his party’s vision for ‘rebuilding Britain’, emphasising a focus on tackling social problems over spending.

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NSPCC distances itself from volunteer supporter of Stuart Hall

Vibeka Mair
18 Jun 2013

Tags: Risk and crisis management | Social media

New NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless took to Twitter yesterday to distance the charity from a branch chair who had given convicted paedophile Stuart Hall a character reference during his court case.