Vibeka Mair

Vibeka is a senior reporter for Civil Society, specialising in finance and governance.

She has been a journalist since 2004, previously working on music, pension, investment and utility titles.

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Sector leaders criticise new Charity Commission board 1

Vibeka Mair
9 May 2013

Two charity sector leaders have taken to Twitter to complain that the new Charity Commission board only includes one person from the sector, with Debra Allcock Tyler calling for responsibility of appointing the board to be removed from a government minister.

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Groundwork Leicester and Leicestershire closes down

Vibeka Mair
8 May 2013

Tags: Spending Cuts and Recession

Groundwork Leicester and Leicestershire has gone into voluntary liquidation resulting in the redundancy of 26 employees.

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Arts and culture sector has key role in UK economy, finds report

Vibeka Mair
7 May 2013

The Arts Council England has today published its first analysis of the value of arts and culture to the national economy, finding that the sector has a turnover of £12.8bn.

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Bupa Foundation to wind up as funding is withdrawn

Vibeka Mair
1 May 2013

Tags: Funding | Spending Cuts and Recession

The Bupa Foundation is to close as Bupa will no longer provide it funding to support medical research in the UK.

More window dressing...Until Mr Grayling takes a pragmatic enforcement role by protecting smaller charity sector organisations from being duffed up by larger ones, this code of conduct is pretty profoundly worthless.

» NCVO and Serco release code of practice for prime/sub relationship

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No.10 meeting held to encourage nominations from charities for honours 2

Vibeka Mair
15 Apr 2013

The head of the civil service Sir Bob Kerslake met with charities last week to encourage a greater number of diversity of nominations from the voluntary and charitable sectors, particularly for volunteers.

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Brixton Barnardo's store attack was protest against its involvement in detention centre, says group

Vibeka Mair
10 Apr 2013

Tags: Charity shops

Protest group Informal Anarchist Federation has claimed responsibility for smashing the window of a Barnardo’s charity shop in Brixton during a party to celebrate Margaret Thatcher’s death, saying it was in protest at the charity’s involvement in a detention centre for migrants.

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Former HBOS CEO leaves trusteeship at Cancer Research UK

Vibeka Mair
10 Apr 2013

Tags: Leadership and strategy

Former HBOS chief Sir James Crosby has announced that he will stand down as trustee of Cancer Research UK, a position he has held since 2008.

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Charity Commission staff on strike today

Vibeka Mair
5 Apr 2013

The Charity Commission is to close its contact centre from 12.45pm today in anticipation of a strike announced by the Public and Commercial Services Union for this afternoon.

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