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 | Finance | 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.

Barbara Stocking, CEO, Oxfam

Oxfam has launched an investment fund, with social and financial returns, which will target small and medium companies in developing countries by investing in local financial intermediaries which focus on small enterprise development.  

Charity Business CEO was dismissed in October 2011

Charity Business founder and CEO Mark Freeman was sacked by the board of the parent company in October following an auditors’ investigation into alleged financial irregularities, and has since lodged a claim for unfair dismissal.


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Hundreds of charities may have lost the ability to accept online donations after web-based donation service Charity Choice upgraded its website and changed the links from charities' own sites.

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Paul Rees, director of communications, CAF

Charities Aid Foundation has made five members of its communications team redundant following a review in which six existing roles were scrapped and six new ones created.
 

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.

Nick Hurd, minister for civil society

Ealing Council for Voluntary Service has received the largest grant from the £30m Cabinet Office programme for local civil society support organisations throughout England.

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