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21 September 2010


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The Commission for the Compact has been busy - it's back with a new draft Compact just a few months after relaunching it last time, apparently to fit in with the new government's priorities and take account of the forthcoming spending review. Some encouraging news on the philanthropy front - CAF's payroll giving service is processing more than twice as many donations now as it did ten years ago - yet more than half of UK employees still don't have access to a payroll giving scheme. 
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Payroll giving more than doubles over decade


Payroll giving increased more than twice during the last decade, according to figures released by the Charities Aid Foundation.


Impact Coalition launches transparency manifesto


The Impact Coalition has launched a 'transparency manifesto' to help charities respond to media attention and address the perception gap between how the public think charities operate and the reality.
Simon Blake

Renewed Compact to launch in November


A renewed draft Compact has been launched today to fit the approach of the new coalition government and complement the Comprehensive Spending Review in October 2010.
Croydon u-turn

Croydon Council in funding u-turn


Croydon Council has restored £72,000 in funding for two charities involved in a cull in June that saw spending on the voluntary sector slashed by around 60 per cent by the council.
Kitumbula Mazambia

Three sentenced for £500,000 Comic Relief, Children in Need and Big Lottery fraud


A Tottenham trio who fraudulently claimed half a million pounds of charity funds and sold secrets of how to do it have been sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court.
Oxford University

Mega-donation allows Oxford to open new school


A £75m donation from an American industrialist has allowed Oxford University to open a new school of government.
PC David Rathband

Victim of Raoul Moat shooting launches 999 charity


The policeman victim of gunman Raoul Moat is launching a charity to raise funds for emergency service workers injured while on duty.

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Westminster

The other admin costs: What proportion of government funding reaches 'the frontline'?


The truth about the amount of government funding that gets eaten up in 'admin' is potentially embarrassing, so why doesn't anyone ever ask about those costs? Jay Kennedy ponders.

Blogs



Frontline: from Haiti with love

In the first in a series of blogs from the frontline, we hear from Andrew Chaggar on how his personal experience of tragedy turned him from electronic engineer to relief worker and the difference that aid is making in Haiti

Anyone know where I can find a toilet?

iPhones are a gift from the mobile gods to charities. Niki May Young explains why
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