Charity Commission announces peer review partnership with professional body
Tags: Audit and accountancy
Sam Younger
Sam Younger joined the Charity Commission as chief executive in September 2010. He has extensive experience of leadership in regulation, in public policy and in charity. His previous roles include founding chair of the Electoral Commission, director general of the British Red Cross, and managing director of the BBC World Service.
After leaving the Electoral Commission he was interim chief executive of the housing charity, Shelter, and also held interim roles with the educational charity Bell Educational Trust and with the Electoral Reform Society.
Younger is an independent member of the Greater London Authority Standards Committee and a director of Electoral Reform International Services. His previous non-executive roles include chair of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education and chair of Council at the University of Sussex.
The son of former Labour minister Kenneth Younger, Sam was appointed Commander of the British Empire in 2009. He is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and holds a number of honorary and advisory roles in academia.
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The Charity Commission has announced a partnership with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales that will see the Institute’s members volunteer to review individual charities' financial systems to identify risks and hopefully stop other organisations falling victim to them.
The Charity Commission has launched new video tutorials explaining how charities can file their annual returns and update their details online.
The Charity Commission will rely more heavily on umbrella bodies to help charities avoid problems, said the Commission's chief executive Sam Younger upon endorsing Visible Standards 2011, a quality standard developed by Community Matters through its Visible Communities programme.
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Regulation research exposes startling levels of non-compliance by charities
Tags: Public benefit
New research from Sheffield Hallam University which explores charities’ compliance with the legal requirement to report on their public benefit has found that nearly half failed to submit a properly-approved Trustees’ Annual Report to the Charity Commission last year.
The Charity Commission paid £1.7m-worth of severance packages in the 2010/11 financial year, up from just £98,000 the previous year.
Sam Younger, chief executive of the Charity Commission, has called for the late filing of documents with the Commission to become the sector equivalent of drink driving.
The Charity Commission is to scrap the director-level roles that sit between the chief executive and the head of operational functions, leaving 11 senior managers heading up 11 functions and reporting directly to Sam Younger.
Sam Younger has reiterated the Charity Commission’s belief that charities need to be more honest about their administration costs, warning that sector leaders should not “bury their heads in the sand”.
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