A CIPFA-developed online platform aimed at helping global not-for-profit organisations get to grips with varying financial reporting methods has been launched today.
The government should transform the prospects of the UK’s poorest towns and cities through its industrial strategy, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Just eight men hold the same wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population, Oxfam has found in a report that aims to put rampant global inequality into perspective.
Charities and voluntary groups have direct insight into the lives of the people and communities they support. The government’s devolution drive must not bypass them
Community assets transfers are gathering pace as councils seek to offload maintenance costs. But communities need support and some funding to make them a success
Charities are coming under increasing scrutiny over their governance and fundraising tactics, just as they are taking on more vital work once performed by public organisations
The collapse of Kids Company shows why scrutiny of public funding for charities needs to improve. The government’s role must be to encourage better, more sustainable organisations into the future
An “extraordinary catalogue of failures” by both government and regulators led to the collapse of high-profile charity Kids Company last year, MPs said today.
Local government funding cuts could be a ‘silent killer’ for small charities and leave them unable to compete with national organisations, think-tank New Philanthropy Capital has warned.
The Public Accounts Committee has concluded that government funding of the closed charity Kids Company was a “failed and expensive experiment” that must never be repeated.
According to Tolstoy in the opening of Anna Karenina, happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. With so many ways to be unhappy, it’s no surprise that the...
Bankrupt charity Kids Company received at least £46m in public funding over the last 15 years despite evidence that officials raised concerns about its financial management and sustainability...
The National Audit Office has announced it is to investigate the grounds for government funding awards to the closed charity Kids Company, and how the grants were monitored by Whitehall.
