With the pinch still being still being felt by one and all, Camden Council leads an innovative approach to funding charities while Nacro is forced to make redundancies.
Camden Council is claiming to have taken an "investment-led" approach to voluntary and community sector funding, as it works to mitigate reductions in its budget.
Nacro, the charity that supports ex-offenders, has made 103 staff redundant as a result of various government contracts ending at the close of the financial year on 31 March.
The term 'Big Society' is not mentioned in either the Scottish Conservatives' or the Scottish Liberal Democrats' manifestos for the upcoming 2011 Scottish Parliament general election on 5 May.
The chief executive of Sustrans, the charity that administers the National Cycle Network throughout Britain, is off work at present recovering from serious injuries sustained when he was knocked off his bike by a van.
In other news...
Charities' resilience to fraud challenged by Big Society burden, says PKF's Jim Gee Unveiling the UK's first research study into the resilience of the UK Charity Sector to fraud, PKF's director of counter fraud services, Jim Gee, has warned of the possibility of "serious reputational and financial damage" to charities under the Big Society agenda.
Charities are being urged to be prepared to seek users' permission when using cookies on their websites following the government's recent announcement on the regulation of cookies.
The Treasury Select Committee has reopened its enquiry into the Payments Council proposal to abolish cheques by 2018, and we want charities to have their say on how it will affect the sector.
The second Be Good Be Social event, much like its English cousin NFPtweetup, celebrated the growing use of social networks and technology by charities.
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"There are many very good reasons for keeping cheques. Many treasurers of organisations rely almost entirely on transactions using cheques. Many people routinely pay their milk or paper bills by cheque. We send cheques in greetings cards as gifts for grandchildren...People are not mugged for their chequebooks. We have had many unwelcome practices foisted on us by greedy banks already...losing the chequebook on top of everything else we have had to endure from our once-caring bank service,would be the last straw for many."
"I work with many small organisations in helping them to streamline their finances. Cheques are a vital part of their trading or funding activities. Charges for EPOS systems are too high for smaller organisations to have as a standby and customers or donors often prefer to pay by cheque which is a cheaper option for them and the organisations concerned."
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