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12 May 2011
Greetings!
While the Community Development Fund enjoys its newfound ability to campaign after last year's quango cull, Kevin Carey believes the sector should move away from campaigning and towards public service delivery. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister is forced to admit that more can be done to improve voluntary sector inclusion in this realm in Scotland.
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Sector campaigning must take a back seat to service delivery, says RNIB chair
Charities should consider ditching the word 'charity' in favour of social enterprise and must begin to view themselves "more as product developers and less as campaigners", RNIB chair Kevin Carey told the CFDG conference this morning.
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More charities than expected will face highest level of accounting disclosure
More charities than initially thought are likely to fall into the most onerous tier of the Accounting Standards Boards proposed framework for charity accounting, according to PwC.
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Loss of quango status allows Community Development Foundation to campaign
The Community Development Foundation is more able to challenge government since it lost its quango status, said its chair Peter Latchford at the launch of its new campaign After the Cuts last night.
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PM concedes 'more should be done' to open public service delivery to Scottish voluntary sector
More should be done to open up public services to the voluntary sector in Scotland, the Prime Minister admitted in Parliament yesterday when confronted by MP for Edinburgh East, Sheila Gilmore, on the matter of the Work Programme.
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Lloyds TSB Foundation predicts increase in grant applications
The Lloyds TSB Foundation increased its grantmaking to £24.5m, in line with expectations, last year and predicts there to be more demand for its grants in 2011.
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Pubs raise as much as £101m for charities a year
More than three quarters of British pubs did some kind of fundraising for charity last year, a level of activity which the industry body PubAid estimates could mean up to £101m of pub pounds for charities.
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In other news...
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Charity Awards
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A campaign that changed the UK government's policy on the export of drugs used in US executions, a project that halved the number of kids that left school without a job or course to go to, and the fundraising appeal that accompanied the Evening Standard's Dispossessed campaign are among the 32 charities to have made the shortlist for this year's prestigious Charity Awards.
You can see the full list here.
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Analysis
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The golden age: older donors have a lot to give
Older consumers have more to give, and they give it. So why are charities worried about over-reliance on ageing donor bases? Cathy Pharoah says charities need to continue to focus on the ever-more-lucrative grey pound.
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Blog
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Virtual reality: Fighting government bureaucracy
Robert Ashton succeeded in persuading the government to make a positive change to the benefits system. Or so he thought...
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You said it...
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"Whilst the enlightened people at NPC call for funders to pay charities to measure their impact, many funders are still scrutinising inputs and processes and using these as the basis of measuring charities' achievements. How about a star rating system for impact?"
Anne Bren comments on Charity efficiency star rating mooted by entrepreneur philanthropist
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"I can't accept that it is 'time to move on' from examining the behaviour of the banks, when the limp-wristed agreements on better regulation have been so blatantly minimised - precisely because the general public does not seem to care. Well I do."
Sian Edwards comments on Bash the footballers?
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Training
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Figure this...
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289 The number of voluntary sector organisations sub-contracted in the Work Programme.
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