September: Curley joins government spending review advisory group

01 September 2009

Greetings!

The stakeholder group set up to advise the government on spending cuts has just one civil society voice among 20 or so government representatives - but at least it is the universally-respected Kevin Curley of Navca. This week we also bring you some practical advice on what to do when a charity's governance falls apart and trustees start playing the blame game, and what steps to take to legally remove members from the governing body.

Curley joins government spending review advisory group

Kevin Curley, chief executive of Navca will represent the voluntary sector on a stakeholder group established to provide advice to the government for the upcoming 2010 spending review.

bassac and Development Trusts Association propose merger

Community umbrella organisations bassac and the Development Trusts Association (DTA) are consulting their members on proposals for a merger.

Navca members express concern about National Citizens' Service

Over half of Navca's members are unsure about or don't want to play a part in implementing the coalition's new National Citizens' Service.

Nall faces NHS accounts quandary after Moorfields appointment

The chair of Charity Finance Directors' Group insists he will see out his tenure as chair despite his new job as finance director of an NHS hospital putting him on the wrong side of the debate about consolidation of charity accounts into NHS balance sheets.

Commission refuses to change Catholic Care gay adoption decision

The Charity Commission has again ruled that Catholic Care (Diocese of Leeds) may not change its objects in order to exclude homosexual couples from accessing its adoption services.

NCVO president to lead de-regulation task force

Nick Hurd and Mark Prisk have announced that the taskforce assembled to flush out bureaucracy from the voluntary sector will include NCVO president Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts.

Features

Removal of members of governing bodies

The governing body are those responsible in law for the organisation and can go by many names, here we learn the legal stance on their removal.

From the grassroots up

Shaping the purpose and role that the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts plays has been challenging say Michael Allen and Stephanie Hilborne.

Board behaving badly

The illusion of a perfectly balanced board breaks apart and the experts offer advice on how to repair the damage in this trustee case study.

Reporting serious incidents

The revised Charity Commission guidance for serious incident reporting still needs work, says Don Bawtree.

Will no one volunteer to be chair?

Olga Johnson talks the board through the difficult process of what to do when no-one wants to be chair.

Latest blogs

Local authority three-card trick

David Davison exposes the costly implications of dabbling with local authorities as they deliver the three-card pensions trick

To merge or not to merge - a pensions question?

Pensions present a hurdle to the possibility of merging, says David Davison, one that could prove too high for some organisations to jump

Coalition's first 100 days offer opportunities for civil society organisations

Jonathan Lewis, chief executive of Social Investment Business reviews the first 100 days of the coalition government

B**S** or BigSocietyspeak?

Big Society blogger Gordon Hunter casts a critical eye over the pathfinding mutuals announcement made this week by minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude

Events

Charity Finance Property Conference
18 October 2010

VAT & Tax Conference
18 October 2010

Charity Finance Live

18 October 2010

Civil Society IT Conference

18 November 2010

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