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Crime prevention charity will challenge rate relief decision

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:41:00 GMT

The Public Safety Charitable Trust plans to appeal this week’s High Court ruling that it cannot claim rate relief for the 1,500 empty commercial buildings it leases around the country.

Cabinet Office paid Big Society Network £98k two months before putting project on hold

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:22:00 GMT

Get In, the childhood sports project that Big Society Network’s Social Action Fund grant was supposed to fund, was faltering in quarter one of the grant agreement, yet the Cabinet Office gave Big Society Network a further £98,000 for the project at the end of quarter two, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show.

A plan for the people

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:45:00 GMT

Julia’s House won the healthcare and medical research category at the 2012 Charity Awards. Part of its success was down to a cutting-edge employee wellbeing programme that dramatically cut staff turnover in a highly stressful environment. Tania Mason reports.

Fast-growing rehab charity restructures to compete for new probation contracts

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:47:00 GMT

Crime Reduction Initiatives, the £80m-turnover drug and alcohol support charity, is restructuring its operations into two distinct divisions in order to capitalise on the government’s new offender rehabilitation agenda.

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

Thu, 9 May 2013 11:00:00 GMT

The prospect of a single charity registration process for both HMRC and the Charity Commission is not far off, Charities Act reviewer Lord Hodgson hinted to a conference audience yesterday.

VSO ad gave wrong impression about how donations are spent, rules ASA

Wed, 8 May 2013 11:47:00 GMT

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a VSO TV ad because it wrongly implied that all VSO volunteers worked in healthcare and that donations from the appeal would be directed specifically to helping sick babies.

Sir Stuart: Charity Commission leaders have lost sector's respect

Wed, 8 May 2013 10:43:00 GMT

NCVO chief executive Sir Stuart Etherington will use a speech today to criticise the leadership of the Charity Commission and warn that it has lost the respect of the sector over the Cup Trust scandal.

PTA-UK chief moves into new executive president post

Tue, 7 May 2013 12:30:00 GMT

PTA-UK, the umbrella body for 13,750 parent-teacher associations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, is looking for a new executive director as its CEO David Butler prepares to move across to the new role of part-time executive president.

Shortlist is unveiled for Charity Awards 2013

Tue, 7 May 2013 11:27:00 GMT

A campaign against the use of drones in Pakistan, the regeneration of a huge landfill site into a nature reserve, and a top-performing academy schools network are among 30 inspiring projects shortlisted in this year’s Charity Awards.

Commission seeks to reassure MPs of its fitness to regulate

Fri, 3 May 2013 11:36:00 GMT

The Charity Commission’s intelligence function carried out more than 163,000 checks on new trustees in the 2012/13 financial year, over 35,000 of them in relation to new charities.

SIB chief reviews Twitter use after Social Action Fund investigation

Thu, 2 May 2013 11:22:00 GMT

Jonathan Jenkins, chief executive of the Social Investment Business, is reviewing his use of social media in order to minimise perceptions that he has social relationships with people from charities that receive statutory funds on his recommendation.

Research shows unprecedented dip in minimum income level of top 350 charities

Thu, 2 May 2013 10:54:00 GMT

The income entry point for charities to claim membership of the UK’s biggest 350 charities has fallen for the first time in 17 years, exclusive research by Charity Finance magazine has shown.

Big Society Network charity gets £1m from BIG despite late accounts

Wed, 1 May 2013 12:10:00 GMT

Society Network Foundation, the charity arm of Big Society Network, has been awarded £1m by the Big Lottery Fund to launch the Britain’s Personal Best campaign, even though the Network is more than three months late filing its accounts with Companies House.

Regulator consults on total return investment proposals

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:30:00 GMT

The Charity Commission is proposing to allow trustees of endowed trusts and foundations to adopt a total return approach to their investments without needing to seek the regulator’s permission.

£14m Innovation Fund launches today

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:23:00 GMT

The Centre for Social Action’s £14m Innovation Fund has opened today for applications, and is offered to commercial organisations and public sector bodies as well as charities and social enterprises.

Commission may tell donors not to give to late filers

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:15:00 GMT

The Charity Commission is considering telling the public not to donate to charities that fail to file their accounts on time.

Commission could have removed Cup Trust corporate trustee, says lawyer

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:11:00 GMT

The Charity Commission should have used its regulatory powers to remove the corporate trustee from the Cup Trust and replace it with trustees who live in England or Wales, according to a leading charity lawyer.

Welsh charity shops hit by new rate relief proposals

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:20:00 GMT

The Charity Retail Association is to call an emergency summit after a government-commissioned review of business rates in Wales recommended a sharp drop in rate relief for charity shops.

Responses from 358 charities finds FD pay down by 7 per cent

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:19:00 GMT

Salaries for charity finance directors reduced by 7.6 per cent over the last year, CFG’s latest pay survey suggests.

CAF comms chief leaves for Royal College of GPs

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:04:00 GMT

Charities Aid Foundation’s director of communications Paul Rees has left the organisation to take up a new job as executive director of policy and engagement at the Royal College of General Practitioners.