-
Recorded and aired live on Tuesday 17 April 2012 – Types and Differences with John Maddocks
Additional session recorded off-line on 2 May 2012 – The good bits and the bad bits to becoming a social enterprise with Robert Flack
-
(
Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
A charitable foundation has launched the Goodwill Exchange in an attempt to get more people volunteering time to support needy charities.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
One of the statements that need to be made in the Trustees’ Report each year is one which demonstrates you have undertaken a risk assessment in order to make an annual statement.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
Big Society Capital has been launched, a project which David Cameron says will help charities across Britain to deal with the country's "deepest social problems".
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
Few UK consumers feel that the current Government has positively impacted the charity sector since it came to power in May 2010.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
The first 15 recipients of financial support from the Government's Innovation in Giving Fund have been revealed.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
A free online guide has been created to help charities discover the different financial models of social investment available to them.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
Fewer than one in 10 employers in voluntary sector organisations (9%) fully understand the implications of the new auto-enrolment regulations, a survey of the sector has found.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
Last year, the Charity Commission published research on charities that deliver public services by joining with others to form a consortium. The research revealed that consortia working can bring great benefits for charities, notably by increasing their access to funding and peer-to-peer support.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
Ministers have announced that charities and other bodies looking to influence Government decisions may have to sign up to a new statutory register as part of a campaign to rid politics of sleaze.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
By common consent, the impact of the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) in October 2010 and the consequent public sector spending cuts will continue to impact charities for the next few years and possibly for some time after that.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
The public's trust in charities has fluctuated over the last two years, new research shows.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that the amount of British aid swallowed by fraud and corruption could increase because of changes to Government distribution plans.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
The services which support disadvantaged people are finding it difficult to cope with demand, a charity has warned.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
Social impacts bonds are being discussed widely. In the last six months they have become a new discussion point in the whole debate about how we fund public services.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
Social enterprise is an important element in proposals to reshape public service delivery. The localism agenda supports voluntary and community involvement and diversification of public service delivery including encouragement of social enterprise.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
CFDG have been working with members over the last 6 months on the area of pensions in the UK charity sector. This research included a survey of 280 charities.
-
(Valuation SIG premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Valuation SIG subscriber.
Join the SIG)
Staff cuts are planned at more than half of charities in England over the next three months with a third saying their service levels will fall, a report claims.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
Private and voluntary groups will be rewarded financially for helping to get jobseekers into work.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
If you are a practitioner working with charities, or acting as volunteer trustees, it is very important that you are familiar with the Charity Commission’s focus on public benefit.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
Peter Gotham looks at the credit crunch and its effect of generating a lot of new guidance.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
There has been no change in the amount of money people give to charity in the UK over the last two decades, a study has revealed.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
During this economic crisis there is one message which comes through loud and clear – charities need
the confidence of those who support them. This audio helpsheet provides practical pointers
aimed at assisting charities in surviving the current economic downturn.
-
Nearly a quarter of charities in the UK are funded by the government, with 13% get over half their income from local authorities, and for some, this figure rises to more than 90%. According to a report by New Philanthropy Capital, the coalition Government cuts are expected to be 25%-40% from current totals which will result in a drop in income of between £3bn-5bn for civil society over the next three years. Coupled with this are falling donations and investment income.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
At the Charity Group's annual conference in November, David Locke, executive director of charity services at the Charity Commission, outlined some of the research that the Charity Commission had recently undertaken to assess the state of the third sector during the recession.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
The full impact of funding cuts is yet to hit charities and they will take longer to recover from the recession than the rest of the UK's economy, according to the National Council for Voluntary Organisations' (NCVO) quarterly survey of its members, which was published in December.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
In this article, PwC's Ian Oakley-Smith will concentrate on one issue in particular which needs to be on the agenda of every board of trustees: collaborative working and/or merger.
-
(Charity and Voluntary Sector Group premium content:
to see this article in full you need to be a Charity and Voluntary Sector Group subscriber.
Join the SIG)
Although it is a rather specialist area of practice, auditors of NHS charities and local authority charities should be aware of developments in the NHS sector, says Charity Commission