Vibeka Mair
Vibeka is a senior reporter for Civil Society, specialising in finance and governance.
She has been a journalist since 2004, previously working on music, pension, investment and utility titles.
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The Charity Commission will expect all charities to become part of a voluntary sector umbrella body, and has mooted highlighting on the Commission website the memberships that charities hold.
Payment of trustees is coming whether we like it or not, according to president of NCVO, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbott.
It's not surprising that Christians' response to the atheist bus campaign became the fourth most complained-about ad in the Advertising Standard Authority's history with over 1,000 complaints compared with merely 100 for the atheist adverts.
Locality has been selected to lead the government’s £15m programme to recruit and train 5,000 community organisers.
I always thought charity shops were meant to be value for money. Recently, however, I've been shocked with the prices at local stores. At one charity retailer, who will go unnamed, the lowest price for an item of clothing has been around £6 for ages, and books go for £3 - £4
RNID is considering changing its name as it starts a rebranding process set to cost around £260,000.
The College of Law, a charity which provides legal education, has defended the £440,000 salary of its chief executive, Nigel Savage, and the £410,000 wage of its deputy chief executive Alan Humphreys, after it was criticised on Roll on Friday, a website for lawyers and in the Sunday Times.
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Payment-by-results will neglect difficult beneficiaries, warns Senscot founder 9
Tags: Statutory funding
The founder of Senscot, a network of Scottish social enterprises, has said he’s astonished at the lack of outrage by leaders in the voluntary sector to the government’s new payment-by-results culture, warning that it will lead to groups of people which no-one will work with.