Andrew Hind has said there needs to be a better understanding of the Charity Commission's willingness to allow charities to pay trustees, arguing that among larger charities "there is increasingly a case for many of those boards to have paid trustees".

The Charity Commission is to contact Acevo regarding comments on chief executive Stephen Bubb's blog about it acting as a trade union.

US fundraiser and author Dan Pallotta is working to set up a global leadership movement to implement the ideas contained in his book Uncharitable, which challenges the perversity of the rules that govern the non-profit sector around the world.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is asking the British public which laws they want scrapped, including regulation of the charity sector.

The government should reinstate the Giving Campaign or create a similar new organisation to boost public giving in the UK, according to Professor Adrian Sargeant.

Payment-by-results has been introduced within three government departments over the past week.

The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Wellcome Trust and the Church Commissioners for England have all suffered sharp income falls in their most recent financial years, down 63, 29 and 16 per cent respectively.

The Leadership Trust Foundation is preparing to launch a Centre for Civil Society, to be chaired by Governance magazine editor Dorothy Dalton.

The Payments Council is to hold a series of meetings with the voluntary sector on the future of cheques and alternative methods of payments.

Education secretary Michael Gove is to provide an extra £4m for the award-winning Teach First charity, despite drastic cuts of up to £3.5bn to the schools budget.

Vodafone has become the first mobile phone operator to commit to passing 100 per cent of donations via its text message services on to charities.

St John Ambulance has received a prestigious award for its Life Lost campaign, taking gold at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.

Partnering with a large retailer is a sure-fire way for charities to raise income. Cancer Research UK's partnership with Morrisons raised more than double its target.

As volunteering increasingly takes centre-stage, Victoria Cook reviews the rules of engagement. 

Not many things will silence a room hundreds-deep with half-drunk fundraisers, but Lindsay Boswell taking to the podium and announcing "we made a mistake tonight" is one of them, says Celina Ribeiro.