33 charities caught misapplying funds
Tags: Regulation
Angela Smith
Angela Smith is a former MP for Basildon and minister for the third sector. She held the latter role from June 2009 until losing her seat in Parliament in the May 2010 general election.
Smith’s tenure as charities minister will mostly be remembered for scrapping the £750,000 Campaign Research Programme after charities had applied and been interviewed, a decision which was in breach of the Compact.
Her previous post was as the Prime Minister’s parliamentary private secretary, while she had also held positions as under-secretary of state at the Department for Communities and Local Government and under-secretary of state for Northern Ireland. Between 1997 and 1999 she was an officer for the All Party Parliamentary Group for Charities and the Voluntary Sector.
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Thirty-three charities have been caught misapplying funds or acting outside their purpose over the last year, according to the Charity Commission.
The sector's fears about the impact of the abolition of cheques has reached parliament, with the government expressing “concern” over the plans.
Angela Smith may be minister for the third sector but there's one particular kind of charity she seems intent on getting rid of.
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Public service coordination project extended but needs more voluntary sector involvement
Tags: Public service delivery
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NAVCA has accused the Office of the Third Sector of breaching the Compact in withdrawing £750,000 in funding from the Campaigning Research Programme, and urged charities minister Angela Smith to reverse the decision.
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Campaign against bogus charity collections launched by govt
Tags: Charity shops | Individual giving
The government has today launched a public awareness campaign to help the public identify charity collections from commercial operations.
A £750,000 fund designed to help small charities campaign has been scrapped today by the minister of the third sector, the money reallocated to the government’s emergency recession fund. The minister Angela Smith today announced that the money will now go to fund an additional 15 organisations through the Hardship Fund.
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Minister denies music licensing change will cost sector £20m
Tags: Charity shops | Events fundraising
Minister for the third sector Angela Smith has been challenged to reveal the true cost to charities of the forthcoming music licensing changes, after she claimed in parliament that the predicted figure of £20m was “an overstatement”.
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