Crime prevention charity will challenge rate relief decision
17 May 2013
The Public Safety Charitable Trust plans to appeal this week’s High Court ruling that it cannot claim...
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Freelance journalist
Gareth Jones is a freelance journalist and communications consultant specialising in the charity sector. Having previously spent over seven years as a reporter and senior reporter for Charity Finance magazine and civilsociety.co.uk, he has developed expertise in a broad range of areas, including public policy, IT, investment, fundraising, taxation, insurance and social media.
In 2013 he became an Associate of Slack Communications, through which he has provided communications support to organisations such as the Charity Finance Group and the Resource Alliance.
He holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from King’s College London, and has volunteered in both the social policy team at Citizens Advice and at the Social Market Foundation think tank.
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Charities are playing lobbying “power games” and need to listen more to their beneficiaries, according to Liberal Democrat peer Shirley Williams.
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Four more organisations have been permitted to give evidence at the Charity Tribunal hearing on the public benefit of benevolent funds.
The voluntary sector may need to do more in order to emphasise the special qualities it can bring to public services, according to Caroline Slocock, director of the Civil Exchange think tank.
The government today launched the £10m Innovation in Giving Fund, calling on applicants to send in videos pitching ideas for technologies and networks that make it easier for people to help each other.
Local authorities should not make cuts to the voluntary sector that are larger than those they are experiencing themselves, according to new guidance issued today.
17 May 2013
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17 May 2013
The Cabinet Office’s Centre for Social Impact Bonds has developed two new tools to assist the development...
17 May 2013
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17 May 2013
The Independent Commission for Aid Impact has called on the Department for International Development to...
16 May 2013
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16 May 2013
The government has rejected the Legal Services Board’s recommendation that will-writing should be regulated...
17 May 2013
The voluntary sector should create a “data manifesto” that identifies who holds data about the sector...
16 May 2013
While management in the charity sector has changed significantly in the past few decades, a reluctance...
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