Charities are reminded that they have until Friday 12 October to participate in the Institute of Fundraising online consultation on volunteer fundraising.

Stephen Dunmore, the former head of the Big Lottery Fund, has been named as the new chair of the BBC's charity appeals advisory committee. Stephen Dunmore replaced outgoing chair Stuart Etherington, chief executive of NCVO, in the post yesterday, 1 July. Etherington served the full five-year contract of the voluntary role.

Macmillan Cancer Support has written a new strategy that aims to turn it into a "supporter-centric"organisation while at the same time increasing revenue by at least 11 per cent.

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has hit back at criticism of its new accountability framework, saying that it will help improve standards and result in more meaningful evaluations of its appeals.