Nick Clegg invites ideas on cutting charity sector red tape 1

Governance | Vibeka Mair | 7 Jul 2010

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is asking the British public which laws they want scrapped, including regulation of the charity sector.

The government has set up a website called Your Freedom on which the public can comment on laws they want repealed or changed. It includes a section on cutting business and voluntary sector regulation.

The site has attracted around 7,000 comments since its launch last week.

Ideas related to the sector included gift aid reform and increasing the charity regulation threshold to £10,000.

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Sheenagh Davis
CEO
H.O.P.E. for Children and their families
14 Jul 2010

The amount of data collection to the amount of funding we receive is disproportionate. It's as if we are not trusted. As a small charity a huge amount of our time is spent collecting data and trying to prove the impact we are having. It is crazy and takes us away from the job we are supposed to be doing. I don't expect anyone ever reads the data, do they??
It has to stop!!

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