One-year funding may soon be a thing of the past after Gordon Brown announced in his pre-budget report that three-year funding by the government should become the norm for the third sector.

The new licensing regime for face-toface and door-to-door fundraising passed in the Charities Act will not come in to force until 2009, according to the implementation timetable published by the Office of the Third Sector (OTS).

Charity shops' profits have risen by 3.2 per cent, according to the 2006 Charity Finance Charity Shops Survey, sponsored by BDO Stoy Hayward.

Almost three-quarters of the charity IT professionals that responded to Citra's survey gauging the level of support for a professional association for IT staff in the sector say they do want such a body set up. The main benefits they perceived from such an association were networking opportunities and sharing information.