As Jonathan Lewis heads for pastures new, financial director Darren Garner steps in as interim chief executive of Social Investment Business; Scottish charities are set to embrace OSCR's online register; and Catholic Care is not prepared to let its case to allow it to discriminate against same-sex adoption drop.
Jonathan Lewis will be stepping down from his chief executive role at the Social Investment Business and its parent charity the Adventure Capital Fund to take up a new job in July.
Over half of Scottish charities intend to submit their accounts online with the Office of the Scottish Regulator when the service becomes available in the Autumn, while a small minority (18 per cent) have indicated they will not.
Catholic Care (Diocese of Leeds) has applied for leave to appeal the latest decision against it in the long-running case sparked by the Charity Commission's refusal to allow it to prevent gay couples from using its adoption services.
The Charity Commission has concluded a five-year investigation into the Association for Reaching and Instructing Children in Africa, which had failed to improve financial controls, including the signing of blank cheques, despite instructions from the Commission.
The Information Commissioner's Office has found two charities in breach of the Data Protection Act after the charities' unencrypted laptops containing sensitive information were stolen.
The Charity Commission must not be put off from trying to create a standard format by which charities can report their spending by the complexity of the task, a charity chief executive told the Commission's chair and CEO last week.
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Dame Suzi: Commission and sector must try to devise admin cost index Finding a fair way to report how much of each pound donated to charity is spent on the cause is the "holy grail of charity information" and a task the Charity Commission and the sector ought to attempt, Commission chair Dame Suzi Leather has said.
Obama and Cameron announce VSO and Peace Corps partnership Civil society was brought to the forefront of the political agenda last week as President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron announced a partnership to strengthen volunteering in the global fight against poverty.
Trustees' Week to return in the autumn The Charity Commission and Charity Trustee Networks - now merged with Small Charities Coalition - are joining forces again this year to run Trustees' Week, set to run from Monday 31 October to Sunday 6 November.
