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Youth Action Network is the first strategic partner to admit defeat in the face of the spending cuts. Fellow strategic partner Volunteering England warns that new money for volunteering could come too late for its members, and sector umbrella bodies are divided over how the Charity Commission should shoulder its own budget cuts.
 

Youth Action Network first to fall in Office for Civil Society's strategic partner reduction programme

 

Youth Action Network looks set to be the first casualty of the Office for Civil Society's cuts to its strategic partner programme.

Commission must not charge charities for services or registration, says DSC

 

The Directory of Social Change opposes the suggestion that the Charity Commission should start charging for information, advice or registration, arguing that this would amount to charitable funds being used to subsidise public spending cuts.

Charity Commission clears London Philharmonic trustees after fraud scandal

 

The Charity Commission has cleared trustees of the London Philharmonic Orchestra of any wrongdoing after its former finance director was jailed for four years for defrauding the charity.

Charity whistleblower wins unfair dismissal case

 

The Charity Commission is to investigate prison counselling charity Forensic Therapies after an employment tribunal ruled it had unfairly dismissed an employee after she raised allegations of misappropriated funds. 

Etherington defends £80,000 wages at NCVO

 

Sir Stuart Etherington, chief executive of NCVO, was forced to justify paying staff members salaries of over £80,000 while expecting to make around 30 people redundant, at a Public Administration Select Committee meeting this week.

New volunteering fund risks coming too late, says Volunteering England

 

Justin Davis Smith, chief executive of Volunteering England has warned that a new £42.5m government fund to support local volunteering infrastructure is not being implemented quickly enough to save volunteer centres already facing closure.

Parentline Plus spends up to £50,000 on rebrand to Family Lives

 

Parentline Plus, which recently acquired Bullying UK, has rebranded as Family Lives, its registered name with the Charity Commission.

Cass Business School signs Andrew Hind and Stephen Lee

 

Andrew Hind, former Charity Commission chief executive and current guest editor of Charity Finance, has taken up a part-time post at Cass Business School as a visiting professor of charity governance and finance.

New head of charities at Charities Aid Foundation

 

The Charities Aid Foundation has appointed Colin Walton as head of charities, in charge of charity/client relationships and business development.

Marie Curie appoints Project Merlin figurehead as chair

 

Former Barclays Group chief executive John Varley, who led the secretive Project Merlin campaign to transform the banking sector's image after the financial crisis, has been appointed as Marie Curie Cancer Care's chairman.

Dream big for our boards

 

Our aspirations for the performance of boards in the not-for-profit sector must equal or surpass the calibre of boards in any other sector, says Judith Davey.

Prince William and Kate Middleton consider charitable wedding

 

Prince William and Kate Middleton may bypass the tradition of receiving elaborate gifts on their wedding day by requesting instead that guests make a donation to a list of chosen charities.

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 (Source:The Office for Simplification of Tax Reliefs' Review of Tax Reliefs interim report)