200 charities left in the lurch as Charity Business goes under
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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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Charity Business owner is also manager of one of its client charities

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.

Debt charity that prays with clients gets licence to expand

The Christian debt counselling charity that was forced to resign its membership of Advice UK after it emerged that it offers to pray with its clients, has secured a new licence that will enable it to expand its work with churches around the country.

Flack members say 'Thank you' to supporters

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.

Michael Thompson

A 69-year-old Lincolnshire man has been sent to prison for two years after being convicted of stealing more than £40,000 from an education charity.

I hardly think Acevo's chair Lesley-Anne Alexander helps by claiming that we need to 'move on from the bra-burning debate'... Acting to polarise the women's movement by trying to frame the activists as 'over zealous' and 'bra-burning' is completely out of line. All too often women aren't judged on their merits because boardrooms are a closed shop where white men invite other white men to join.

» Voluntary sector is 'failing its women'

Rowena Lewis, fellow, Clore Social Leadership Programme

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.

Dame Suzi Leather , Charity Commission chair delivers speech at breakfast briefing

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.

Clare Gilhooly, Cambridge House chief executive

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.

Shaw Trust shop

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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