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Charities collaborate to increase private rented housing for disabled people

19 Jun 2013 | Tania Mason

The Housing and Support Alliance has teamed up with the co-founder of moneysupermarket.com and the Centre for Welfare Reform to launch a project to increase the provision of private rented housing for people with learning disabilities.


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Leading advice services are being forced to cut back on face-to-face support and place more emphasis on digital and telephone services, a roundtable discussion of advice charity leaders revealed yesterday.

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The Charity Commission data sets on how charities spend their money will be made publicly available in an ‘open data’ format by March 2014.

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David Carrington, winner of the Outstanding Achievement award at the Charity Awards 2013

Voluntary sector consultant and adviser David Carrington has been honoured with the Outstanding Achievement Award at this year’s Charity Awards gala dinner.


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A charity that has built 22 secondary schools in Uganda and Zambia and educated over 8,000 youngsters so far since 2008, has taken the top prize at the Charity Awards 2013.


Google donates £1m to child sexual abuse charity

Google has donated £1m to the Internet Watch Foundation towards its work removing child sexual abuse content on the internet, days before a meeting with the UK government to explain how it is dealing with the availability of harmful content.

ICO: There is 'room for improvement' on data protection by charities

The Information Commissioner’s Office has told charities that “there is room for improvement” in the way they manage data as the regulator releases a report on the findings of its advisory visits to charities in the last year.

Charities offered £24 computers and low-cost internet

A Go On UK partnership with Microsoft that provides refurbished computers has teamed up with a broadband comparison site to include an internet package in its offering.

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