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Top companies embrace climate change, survey finds
UK companies and organisations are beginning to take
climate change seriously, the results of the second
annual survey on climate change have shown
28/07/06
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Pre-nuptial agreements for partnering charities
Charities should enter ‘pre-nuptial agreements’
before partnering, according to new guidance published
by the NCVO
28/07/06
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Charity chair to head up Audit Commission board
The chair of a youth homelessness charity has been
appointed chair of the Audit Commission in a move
which demonstrates the importance of the voluntary
sector in public service delivery
27/07/06
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Will Aid to run again in the autumn
Will Aid, which in 2004 directly raised £685,000
(adjusted to include Gift Aid) for its nine partnering
charities, has announced that it will be running again
this November
27/07/06
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UK pension funds failing on ethical investment
UK pension funds are failing in their duty towards
responsible and ethical investment, the campaign for
responsible investment FairPensions has warned
26/07/06
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Government statistics reform doesn’t go far
enough
The Treasury Select Committee has urged government
to extend the scope of its proposed legislation on
independence for statistics, following the publication
of the government’s consultation paper, Independence
for statistics
20/07/06
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VSO seeks high level volunteers for ‘troubleshooting’
roles
In a departure from its traditional volunteer placements,
VSO has launched a new programme placing senior and
board level managers from the private, public and
voluntary sectors in consultancy and advisory positions
with organisations in the developing world
19/07/06
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Tate falls foul of regulator
The Charity Commission has criticised the Tate for
failing to seek its permission when purchasing art
from its own trustees, potentially putting it in breach
of charity law
19/07/06
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Majority of trustees ill equipped for role
The majority of charity trustees feel they are not
fully equipped for their role despite being responsible
for more than £39 billion of charity cash, according
to a survey for the Governance Hub
19/07/06
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Sector welcomes change as Lottery Bill receives Royal
Assent
The National Lottery Bill has received Royal Assent
and is now an act, introducing the possibility of
players choosing where their funding is directed and
opening up lottery funding to a broader range of organisations
17/07/06
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Levels of charity concentration revealed in national
study
New research published by NCVO has laid out the distribution
of charities on a national basis, revealing ‘hotspots’
and ‘deserts’ of charity concentration
in different regions
12/07/06
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Unwanted emails could mean legal threat from employees
Unwanted emails in the workplace could now be deemed
as harassment, following a landmark legal decision
that could leave charity employers facing litigation
12/07/06
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Ethical investment at all time high
Britons are investing ethically at record levels,
last year breaking the £6bn mark for the first
time, according to figures released by Ethical Investment
Research Services
12/07/06
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Public support charity campaigning
More people were involved in the MakePovertyHistory
campaign than voted in either of the last two general
elections, according to new research looking into
public attitudes towards charity campaigning
12/07/06
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New chair of ALG grants committee appointed
Paul McCannah of Enfield Council has been elected
as the new chair of the Association of London Government’s
grants committee – the first Conservative chair
of the group
11/07/06
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Volunteering England gather MP support for lunch expenses
campaign
Volunteering England has launched a parliamentary
campaign urging the government to rewrite its guidance
on payment of lunch expenses to volunteers claiming
benefits
11/07/06
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Charity Bank hits £50 million loan mark
Not-for-profit Charity Bank has announced that since
its launch in October 2002, it has agreed loans worth
over £50 million to more than 500 charitable
organisations
06/07/06
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OSCR strips untraceable charities of their status
The Scottish charity regulator is stripping the charitable
status of organisations that can no longer be traced
05/07/06
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Age legislation a burden to charities
Charity employers perceive new anti-ageism legislation
as a burden and are unconvinced of the business benefits
of the new law less than six months before it comes
into force
05/07/06
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£70,000 ICT funding pot opened up
The Information and Communication Technology Hub is
calling on voluntary and community organisations to
apply for a grant from its £70,000 unmet need
fund
05/07/06
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Road testing panel launched for new fundraising products
New fundraising products can now be fully tested before
their launch following the creation of a live panel
of reviewers from across the fundraising sector by
the Institute of Fundraising
03/07/06
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New guide to public service delivery procurement
A free guide to the processes involved in public service
procurement is set to be launched on 11 July by the
newly established Public Service Delivery Network
03/07/06
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Wellcome Trust to launch first UK charity bond
Britain’s largest charitable foundation, the
Wellcome Trust, is launching a bond to raise cash
for scientific research. It is the first bond to be
launched by a UK charity
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