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Hayday to quit Charity Bank after ten years

Finance | Tania Mason | 6 Feb 2012

Tags: Banking | Human resources | Social investment

Malcolm Hayday has announced his intention to step down from Charity Bank, the social finance institution that he helped to set up ten years ago.

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Call for emergency action on youth unemployment 3

Finance | 6 Feb 2012

Tags: Human resources

Tackling youth unemployment should be a priority for all sectors, says Acevo CEO Stephen Bubb, as a new report by the Commission on Youth Unemployment warns that the issue has reached “emergency point”.

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Beryl Hobson leaves Charity Commission to start consultancy

Governance | Tania Mason | 6 Feb 2012

Tags: Human resources

The Charity Commission’s head of large charities, Beryl Hobson, has quit the regulator to start up her own governance consultancy.

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OSCR staff survey reveals rising motivation levels

Governance | Niki May Young | 2 Feb 2012

Tags: Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) | Regulation | Human resources

Staff at the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator are more motivated than they were, have a greater personal attachment to the organisation and are more confident in the board’s vision for the future, according to a new survey.

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Youth United gets £1m from government to train adult volunteers

Finance | Kirsty Weakley | 2 Feb 2012

Tags: Volunteering | Statutory funding

Eric Pickles has announced that his Department for Communities and Local Government will give a coalition of youth volunteering bodies £10m to train 2,700 new adult volunteers.

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UK charities voted amongst best NGOs 1

Governance | 2 Feb 2012

Tags: International

Three UK-based charities are placed amongst the top twenty best NGOs in the world in a report by the Global Journal.

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Blears to push Hurd on definition for social enterprise 2

Governance | Vibeka Mair | 2 Feb 2012

Tags: Social enterprise

Labour MP Hazel Blears plans to write to minister for civil society Nick Hurd urging him to consider a statutory definition for social enterprise, after he recently confirmed that the government had no plans to introduce one.

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Shaw Trust examines merger with Work Programme prime contractor

Governance | Tania Mason | 1 Feb 2012

Tags: Mergers | Collaborations

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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Community energy lobby presses government for huge scaling up

Governance | Tania Mason | 1 Feb 2012

Tags: Campaigns

The National Trust and the Women’s Institute are among a coalition of civil society groups that are meeting Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne today to press for massive expansion of community energy projects across the UK.

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Yorkshire business community organises match-making volunteering event

Governance | Kirsty Weakley | 1 Feb 2012

Tags: Volunteering

A business networking group in Yorkshire is organising a networking event to connect business people with charities that can benefit from their skills.

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Prince Charles hosting youth summit

Finance | 1 Feb 2012

Tags: Statutory funding

The Prince of Wales is today meeting with members from youth charities, both at his Clarence House base and in South London, to discuss the issues young British people face.

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Charity merger saves adoption support services in West Midlands

Governance | Niki May Young | 31 Jan 2012

Tags: Mergers | Pensions

One of the largest adoption support charities in the UK has subsumed a West Midlands adoption charity in order to save its services in the area.

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Scope reveals user-generated rebrand

IT | Niki May Young | 31 Jan 2012

Tags: Brands and Marketing

Disability action charity Scope has revealed a user-led rebrand based on inspirational images submitted by its beneficiaries.

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Metropolitan Police Wildlife Crime Unit rescued by charity 1

Governance | Adam Martin | 31 Jan 2012

Tags: Funding | Public service delivery

The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) has saved the Metropolitan Police Wildlife Crime Unit in a groundbreaking £100,000 funding agreement.

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Date set for Stroud NHS dispute hearing

Finance | 31 Jan 2012

Tags: Statutory funding | Public service delivery | Social enterprise

The legal hearing regarding the future of Gloucestershire's NHS services has been set for 8 February.

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Labour hosts children's charities summit

Finance | 31 Jan 2012

Tags: Statutory funding

The Labour Party is holding a summit today of charity and voluntary sector groups to discuss the impact of the current government’s policies on children’s charities and their services.

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Social Value Bill garners strong support in the House of Lords

Governance | Vibeka Mair | 30 Jan 2012

Tags: Law | Social enterprise

The Social Value Bill has edged closer to becoming law, after passing its second reading in the House of Lords.

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RNIB launches legal action over accessibility of bmibaby website 1

Governance | Niki May Young | 30 Jan 2012

Tags: Law | Campaigns

The Royal National Institute of Blind People has entered legal proceedings against airline bmibaby for failing to make its website accessible to blind and partially-sighted people.

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Acevo chair: equality debate 'must move on from bra-burning' 7

Governance | Tania Mason | 27 Jan 2012

Tags: Human resources | Leadership and strategy

If women in the voluntary sector are to achieve equality of pay and opportunity, the debate needs to move on from the “old-fashioned bra-burning era” and focus on skills, according to Acevo chair Lesley-Anne Alexander.

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Proposal for sector equalities champion gets little support

Governance | Tania Mason | 27 Jan 2012

Tags: Leadership and strategy | Human resources

An idea from the 20/20 Leadership Commission to appoint an organisation as equalities champion for the sector got short shrift from a panel of women leaders yesterday.

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Study shows over half of Brits volunteered last year

Governance | Adam Martin | 27 Jan 2012

Tags: Volunteering

More than one in two people in Britain volunteered in 2011, according to a new study in volunteering habits by YouGov.

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RNLI announces 41 redundancies

Governance | 27 Jan 2012

Tags: Human resources

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has cut 41 staff, citing the challenging economic climate for charities that rely on public donations.

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Welsh government suspends all funding to beleaguered equality charity 1

Governance | Vibeka Mair | 27 Jan 2012

Tags: Public service delivery

The Welsh government has suspended all public funding to the All Wales Ethnic Minority Association, until an investigation into alleged abuse of charitable funds is completed.

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Charity Commission for Northern Ireland receives 100th charity concern

Governance | Niki May Young | 27 Jan 2012

Tags: Regulation

The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland has published the key lessons learnt from the first 100 concerns lodged about charities across the country.

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Bill Gates pledges $750m as Global Fund announces new leadership

Governance | Niki May Young | 26 Jan 2012

Tags: Leadership and strategy | Funding | Statutory funding | Ethics | Law

Bill Gates has pledged a $750m vote of confidence in the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria after it was announced its executive director would step down following the exposure of a "grave abuse of funds" in several countries the fund works in.

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Voluntary sector is 'failing its women' 7

Governance | Tania Mason | 26 Jan 2012

Tags: Human resources | Leadership and strategy

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.

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Freedom of the City of Liverpool for charity founder

Governance | Adam Martin | 26 Jan 2012

Tags: Funding | Leadership and strategy

Children’s charity Kind has announced that its founder and chief executive Stephen Yip has been granted the freedom of the City of Liverpool.

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New PFRA chair is marketing veteran

Fundraising | Tania Mason | 26 Jan 2012

Tags: Trustee boards | Chairs | Brands and Marketing

Paul Stallard has joined the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association as its first paid chair, succeeding Michael Naidu who has been acting chair since 2008.

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Acevo chief wants more charity CEOs on company boards

Governance | 26 Jan 2012

Tags: Human resources

Acevo CEO Sir Stephen Bubb has written to Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, calling for more charity CEOs to be appointed to company boards.

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Marketing focused on low overheads is counter-productive, says Dame Suzi 1

Fundraising | Niki May Young | 25 Jan 2012

Tags: Brands and Marketing | Investment | Corporate fundraising

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.

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