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Cheques may be saved yet as the Treasury reopens its inquiry into their abolition; the IoF wants new mobile operator Everything Everywhere to get on board with free text donations; and Kevin Carey wants charity leaders to have a more conversational approach to governance. 

Treasury Committee reopens cheque abolition question
  

The Treasury Select Committee will reopen its inquiry into plans to phase out cheques after being inundated by public concerns and unconvinced by evidence put forward by the Payments Council.  

Abandon text donation fees, Institute tells Orange and T-Mobile
  

The Institute of Fundraising is calling on its organisational members to lobby the new mobile operator Everything Everywhere to drop its fees and pass the entire value of text donations made on its network to charities.

Bubb to leave Acevo for two months to serve on government's NHS panel
  

Acevo chief executive Sir Stephen Bubb has been seconded onto a government-appointed forum that will scrutinise the proposed changes to the NHS.

European report highlights unfairness of UK VAT regime, says CTG
  

Charity Tax Group has hailed a new report published by the European Commission on the different VAT treatments in different EU member states, as a major milestone in its campaign to secure a fairer VAT regime for UK charities.

Fears for Compact as government ignores final Commission report
  

Representatives from the Office for Civil Society, including Nick Hurd, ignored calls for their input into the evaluation of the Compact overseen by the Commission for the Compact as its final act before closing its doors on 31 March.

OSCR registers first SCIO
  

The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator has completed the registration of the first Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation.

Depaul UK launches updated iHobo app
  

Homelessness charity Depaul UK has launched a new version of its awareness-raising iHobo app for smartphones which introduces new social networking features to the game.

Thinking differently about governance
  

Royal National Institute of Blind People chairman, Kevin Carey, considers what a move towards a conversational culture rather than a reporting culture could do for the governance of charities.

Fundraising from a governance perspective
  

One of the most common complaints about boards is that they don't 'get' fundraising. Amanda McLean, former chief executive of the Institute of Fundraising, outlines the basics.

"Would it not make more sense to have had someone from the sector who is involved with providing support for NHS patients services,or rather the lack of them. Or is it that the government is carefully selecting the people who will agree with them?"

"This either meant some really, really poor communication first time round, or a significant simplification second time. There seems to be no end to the own goals scored by the Coalition."