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 Office of the Third Sector is to be replaced by the Office for Civil Society, taking responsibility for charities, social enterprises and voluntary organisations in the Cabinet Office. .
Locality has been selected to lead the government’s £15m programme to recruit and train 5,000 community organisers.
Charity Rhythmix left with steep legal bills after X Factor battle 8
Music charity Rhythmix has said the X Factor has left it with ‘considerable’ legal bills, following a battle with the programme over an X Factor band who tried to trademark the charity’s name.
The government has today awarded a total of £1.7m from its £100m Transition Fund to 18 charities.
Charity Commission expects all charities to join an umbrella body 32
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.
The National Bullying Helpline has attacked its patrons on its website following their decision to resign following the Gordon Brown bullying row.
An Age UK Croydon office has suffered an estimated £30,000 worth of damage as rioters looted IT equipment and damaged office equipment, while an Age UK staff member was trapped inside.
Microsoft will offer its refurbished computers to charities for as little as £95 as part of its commitment to Race Online 2012, a government campaign to get millions of people who have never been online connected to the web by the end of 2012.






