Vibeka Mair

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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Office for Civil Society to replace Office of the Third Sector

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 to deliver government community organiser scheme

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

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.

Nick Hurd MP

The government has today awarded a total of £1.7m from its £100m Transition Fund to 18 charities.

More window dressing...Until Mr Grayling takes a pragmatic enforcement role by protecting smaller charity sector organisations from being duffed up by larger ones, this code of conduct is pretty profoundly worthless.

» NCVO and Serco release code of practice for prime/sub relationship

Dame Suzi Leather, chair of the Charity Commission

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.

National Bullying Helpline attacks patrons who resigned

The National Bullying Helpline has attacked its patrons on its website following their decision to resign following the Gordon Brown bullying row.

Copyright Ignat Gorazd

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 launches £95 computers for the charity sector

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.

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