Big Society Capital charts progress in first annual report 4
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Vibeka Mair
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Big Society Capital launched its first annual report last night, which shows it has delivered £39m of capital to 15 social investment finance intermediaries, which have so far benefited 23 frontline organisations.
Two charity sector leaders have taken to Twitter to complain that the new Charity Commission board only includes one person from the sector, with Debra Allcock Tyler calling for responsibility of appointing the board to be removed from a government minister.
Groundwork Leicester and Leicestershire has gone into voluntary liquidation resulting in the redundancy of 26 employees.
Today’s Queen speech introduced legislation to reform the way in which offenders are rehabilitated in England and Wales.
The Arts Council England has today published its first analysis of the value of arts and culture to the national economy, finding that the sector has a turnover of £12.8bn.
The use of collaborative social investment funding for charities by charitable foundations and private sector organisations has been commended in a Cabinet Office report into achieving social impact at scale.
BBC Children in Need’s grant programmes open for application today to organisations supporting disadvantaged children and young people in the UK.
The Bupa Foundation is to close as Bupa will no longer provide it funding to support medical research in the UK.
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