The Big Lottery Fund is to consult the sector on whether it should provide loans and endowments as well as grants.

Small charities have just a few more days to sign up for free places at a forum on innovation organised by the Foundation for Social Improvement

Two British galleries have been given the chance to buy a Renaissance masterpiece at half-price – but only if they raise £50m by the end of this year.

Suppose a journalist, or maybe a civil servant from the Office of the Third Sector asked you, as a fundraiser, whether the umbrella bodies which stood up for, lobbied on behalf of, and represented the voluntary sector to the 'outside world', were doing a good job, what would be your response?