Tania Mason sheepishly acknowledges a previous gaffe.

I stand corrected.

Two months ago, after the Chancellor delivered his Budget, I wrote a blog suggesting that Thomas Hughes-Hallett’s Philanthropy Review had made better progress in a few short weeks than other outfits had been able to achieve in a much longer period. It was meant as a flippant, throwaway piece but it ruffled the feathers of the Funding Commission’s Fiona Ellis (pictured), who immediately posted an indignant comment chiding me for “creating disharmony”.

So now I feel duty-bound to blog again, in the interests of balance and accuracy, to report that the Funding Commission has scored a great success in the new Giving White Paper that’s published today by the Cabinet Office.  Some £30m of the £40m pledged by the government to new initiatives to encourage giving will be allocated in line with a key recommendation from the Funding Commission’s final report – a fund to help infrastructure bodies modernise and provide better services to frontline organisations.

The government even name-checked the Commission in the Paper: “Providing this type of support was a recommendation of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) Funding Commission (Funding the Future (NCVO 2010),” it said.

So there you go. Far from being “peeved”, as I suggested in March, the Funding Commission was simply biding its time, waiting for its own reward to be announced. That’ll teach me to be flippant.