Minister denies music licensing change will cost sector £20m 0

Fundraising | Gareth Jones | 11 Mar 2010

Topics: Charity shops | Events fundraising

Minister for the third sector Angela Smith has been challenged to reveal the true cost to charities of the forthcoming music licensing changes, after she claimed in Parliament that the predicted figure of £20m was “an overstatement”.

Minister denies music licensing change will cost sector £20m

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New website attacks government-funded charities 20

Finance | Gareth Jones
25 Feb 2009

Topics: Websites

A new website, fakecharities.org, has been created to highlight those charities which receive state funding and which the site’s creator alleges support the government.

Charities listed include Age...

Believe what you want (except if you're Christian) 19

Fundraising | Vibeka Mair
18 Mar 2009

Topics: Charity advertising

It's not surprising that Christians' response to the atheist bus campaign became the fourth most complained-about ad in the Advertising Standard Authority's history with over 1,000 complaints compared with...

Central applicant data bank for funders mooted 18

Fundraising | Tania Mason
12 May 2008

Topics: Grants & Grantmaking

The voluntary sector should establish a central data bank where all grant applicants can lodge standard information about their organisations, to be accessed by funders wishing to verify their authenticity...

Charity shops have lost the plot 11

Fundraising | Vibeka Mair
4 Feb 2009

Topics: Charity shops | Ethics

I always thought charity shops were meant to be value for money. Recently, however, I've been shocked with the prices at local stores. At one charity retailer, who will go unnamed, the lowest price for...

Is it only me who sees enormous irony in the acronym of the Essex Women's Advisory Group?

» New charitable project challenges perceptions of 'Essex girls'

Does transparency actually make any difference? 11

Governance | John Tate
3 Jun 2009

Topics: Accountability and transparency | Statutory funding

Charity Finance reports today that the NCVO is to receive a £750,000 grant from the Big Lottery Fund to help it demonstrate how it and other infrastructure bodies benefit the sector. Back in 2004 the government...

Expenses update - a view from the top and an ex-MP 10

Governance | John Tate
23 Jun 2009

Topics: Expenses

There has been some comment that a number of chief executives do not support the idea of expenses disclosure and I spoke to Jackie Ballard – CEO of the RNID - about this today.

As an ex-MP Jackie is...

Institute moots new 'Right to Ask' umbrella brand for all fundraising policy 9

Fundraising | Tania Mason
20 Jan 2010

Topics: Communications | Individual giving | Campaigns

The Institute of Fundraising is mustering support for a sector-wide public-facing campaign that will reinforce the message that fundraisers have every right to ask for money on behalf of beneficiaries.

Lloyds TSB forces closure of Interpal's bank account 8

Finance | Tania Mason
19 Nov 2008

Topics: Terrorism | Banking | Law

Interpal, the controversial UK-based Palestinian charity, is facing closure after Lloyds TSB instructed the Islamic Bank of Britain to shut its bank account.

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