Tania Mason

Tania Mason is group editor at Civil Society Media.

She has been a journalist for 20-odd years and has specialised in the charity sector since 2003. Her experience has included stints on Third Sector, Marketing and PrintWeek magazines as well as agency work involving court reporting and occasional doorstepping of celebs for the tabloids. She started her career with five years on a daily newspaper in New Zealand before moving to London in 1993.

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Nick Hurd is new charities minister 3

Governance | Tania Mason
14 May 2010

Tags: Statutory funding

Conservative MP Nick Hurd will be announced today as the voluntary sector’s new minister, Civil Society has learned.

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Gift Fundraising in voluntary administration 2

Fundraising | Tania Mason
17 Feb 2012

Tags: Face-to-face fundraising

Street fundraising agency Gift Fundraising has gone into voluntary administration with the loss of 40 permanent jobs and around 300 street fundraising posts.

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200 charities left in the lurch as Charity Business goes under 4

Finance | Tania Mason
12 Jan 2012

Tags: Audit and accountancy | Banking | Finance for trustees

Charity Business, the agency that provides outsourced financial back-office services, has ceased trading, leaving around 200 small and medium-sized charities without services and around 20 staff without jobs.

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Budget unveils 'most radical reforms to charitable giving for 20 years'

Finance | Tania Mason
23 Mar 2011

Tags: Gift aid | Taxation | Tax effective giving | Legacies

Charities will no longer have to obtain signed gift aid declarations on the first £5,000 of small donations per year in order for those donations to qualify for the tax relief, Chancellor George Osborne announced in his Budget speech today.

I hope I'm not the only person to think that HMRC is far from an ideal vehicle to regulate charities. HMRC's business is to manage the collection of tax and it currently has difficulties even in doing that. The public perception of HMRC is of people who behave like autocrats (we're always right, you're always wrong) and who cannot provide advice effectively.

» Joint registration for HMRC and Charity Commission is getting closer, suggests Hodgson

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Charity Commission has 'no jurisdiction' over board member's payment from Amnesty 12

Finance | Tania Mason
21 Feb 2011

Tags: Accountability and transparency | Risk and crisis management | Remuneration | Human resources

The Charity Commission has said it has no jurisdiction over Amnesty International making a valedictory payment of £530,000 to its former secretary general – now a Charity Commission board member - because the part of Amnesty that made the payment is not a charity.

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Website attacks directors' salaries at Fire Fighters Charity 2

Finance | Tania Mason
1 Dec 2010

Tags: Human resources | Remuneration

A website has been created, purportedly by serving and retired firefighters, to highlight the "excessive" salaries paid to directors at the Fire Fighters Charity.