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28 Feb 19
CIPFA will continue to provide secretariat support for charity accounting rules after being awarded the contract for a further three years.
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26 Feb 19
Children’s services in England are at “breaking point” as funding has been slashed by nearly a third since 2010, charities have warned.
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15 Feb 19
Steps must to be taken to protect more people from falling into poverty in the wake of a no-deal Brexit, poverty charities have urged.
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12 Feb 19
Calls for a multi-billion-pound cut in the UK’s foreign aid budget and the abolition of the Department for International Development are a “recipe for disaster”, NGOs have warned.
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24 Jan 19
The UK is giving £2.5m to support the United Nation’s peace process in the war-torn country of Yemen.
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11 Jan 19
Central government does not have “sufficient oversight” of social care needs assessments across England, an NGO has said.
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10 Jan 19
Whitehall can learn from town halls on how to open up contracts to non-profits, says Charlie Wigglesworth of Social Enterprises UK.
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8 Jan 19
A social work charity has been given £45m in government money to train 900 children’s social workers over the next three years.
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23 Nov 18
Most large charities are not reporting their reserves accurately and may have an “incomplete understanding” of what they are, a watchdog has warned.
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9 Nov 18
The UK is giving £50m to help stop mothers and babies dying in childbirth in developing countries.
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15 Oct 18
Penny Mordaunt has proposed plans to change the rules on aid to include millions of pounds from private investment and “reduce the ask on the public purse”.
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8 Oct 18
The government must inspect financially struggling councils to ensure they are fulfilling their social care duties, an umbrella group for disability charities has urged.
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26 Sep 18
Almost four out of ten small charities are submitting inaccurate financial information, a watchdog review has found.
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18 Sep 18
Four of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies could be avoiding paying about $3.8bn in corporate tax, Oxfam has warned.
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3 Sep 18
Charities have been reprimanded for failing to use their accounts and annual reports to communicate clearly and transparently with the public.
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31 Aug 18
A series of aid programmes will be set up to stem the flow of money obtained unlawfully or immorally in developing countries, the UK government has announced.
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17 Aug 18
The government’s recently published civic society strategy was light on detail, says the RSA’s Ian Burbidge. Plenty of commissioners were already doing innovative, forward-thinking work without it....
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16 Aug 18
The proportion of young people who think it is important to go to university has declined gradually over the past five years, according to figures released by an educational charity today.
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10 Aug 18
Mark Norbury of UnLtd reflects on the laudable ambitions included in the government’s long awaited Future of Civil Society Strategy.
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10 Aug 18
Funds from dormant bank account and inactive charitable trusts will be released to fund a range of community-focused and led initiatives, according to the government’s Civil Society Strategy.
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6 Aug 18
Families rely more on food banks over the summer holidays because children do not have access to free school meals, according to an anti-poverty charity.
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31 Jul 18
More of the money donated to international charities – including from governments around the world - should go towards making it easier to whistleblow against charity sector abuse.
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18 Jul 18
Facts and figures from the July 2018 edition of Public Finance magazine on immigration caps, the riddle of the Lords, and the ethnic diversity gap in UK charities
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29 Jun 18
Penny Mordaunt has pledged to help Commonwealth veterans living in poverty through the British aid budget, in a speech at a think-tank yesterday.
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22 Jun 18
The way the UK spends its international aid budget will be “reset” to help the world’s poor and win back the trust of “sceptical” British taxpayers, Penny Mordaunt has said.
28 Feb 19CIPFA will continue to provide secretariat support for charity accounting rules after being awarded the contract for a further three years.
26 Feb 19Children’s services in England are at “breaking point” as funding has been slashed by nearly a third since 2010, charities have warned.
15 Feb 19Steps must to be taken to protect more people from falling into poverty in the wake of a no-deal Brexit, poverty charities have urged.
12 Feb 19Calls for a multi-billion-pound cut in the UK’s foreign aid budget and the abolition of the Department for International Development are a “recipe for disaster”, NGOs have warned.
24 Jan 19The UK is giving £2.5m to support the United Nation’s peace process in the war-torn country of Yemen.
11 Jan 19Central government does not have “sufficient oversight” of social care needs assessments across England, an NGO has said.
10 Jan 19Whitehall can learn from town halls on how to open up contracts to non-profits, says Charlie Wigglesworth of Social Enterprises UK.
8 Jan 19A social work charity has been given £45m in government money to train 900 children’s social workers over the next three years.
9 Nov 18The UK is giving £50m to help stop mothers and babies dying in childbirth in developing countries.
15 Oct 18Penny Mordaunt has proposed plans to change the rules on aid to include millions of pounds from private investment and “reduce the ask on the public purse”.
8 Oct 18The government must inspect financially struggling councils to ensure they are fulfilling their social care duties, an umbrella group for disability charities has urged.
18 Sep 18Four of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies could be avoiding paying about $3.8bn in corporate tax, Oxfam has warned.
31 Aug 18A series of aid programmes will be set up to stem the flow of money obtained unlawfully or immorally in developing countries, the UK government has announced.
17 Aug 18The government’s recently published civic society strategy was light on detail, says the RSA’s Ian Burbidge. Plenty of commissioners were already doing innovative, forward-thinking work without it....
16 Aug 18The proportion of young people who think it is important to go to university has declined gradually over the past five years, according to figures released by an educational charity today.
10 Aug 18Mark Norbury of UnLtd reflects on the laudable ambitions included in the government’s long awaited Future of Civil Society Strategy.
10 Aug 18Funds from dormant bank account and inactive charitable trusts will be released to fund a range of community-focused and led initiatives, according to the government’s Civil Society Strategy.
6 Aug 18Families rely more on food banks over the summer holidays because children do not have access to free school meals, according to an anti-poverty charity.
18 Jul 18Facts and figures from the July 2018 edition of Public Finance magazine on immigration caps, the riddle of the Lords, and the ethnic diversity gap in UK charities
