Nick Hurd is new charities minister 3
Tags: Statutory funding
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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Conservative MP Nick Hurd will be announced today as the voluntary sector’s new minister, Civil Society has learned.
Street fundraising agency Gift Fundraising has gone into voluntary administration with the loss of 40 permanent jobs and around 300 street fundraising posts.
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.
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.
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.
Catch 22, the Prince’s Trust and v are among 12 groups selected by the government to pilot the first National Citizen Service projects.
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Website attacks directors' salaries at Fire Fighters Charity 2
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.
A large number of charities who provide services to a limited subsection of the public may find themselves in breach of anti-discrimination legislation once the Equality Act becomes law in October, a group of charity lawyers has warned.
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