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Call for Marketing Excellence Awards entries
The deadline for the Chartered Institute of Marketing Awards 2010 entries is Friday 8 October 2010 September 2010 |
Defunct church misses out on legacyPamela Schroder was a devotee and the only minister of the 'Church of the Good Shepherd’, which seems to have been a breakaway sect from the Roman Catholic Church. September 2010 |
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Eating into reservesReserve levels appear to be falling, according to new research from NCVO, which suggests that one in three operating charities have no funding at all in reserve. September 2010 |
Equality – uncertainty still reigns over the exceptions available to charitiesIan Davies explains why recent sex discimination legislation has created even more problems for charities aiming at certain groups of beneficiaries and remain surprised at the lack of clear guidance September 2010 |
Give us your ideasAs part of the £6.2bn savings challenge announced by the Treasury in May 2010, the Office for Civil Society (OCS) will be making £11m savings from its 2010/2011 budget. September 2010 |
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Housing market takes a wobbleThe Nationwide and Halifax house price indices suggest that the rally in UK house prices has petered out over recent months September 2010 |
Unemployment - the good and the bad newsThe latest official Labour Force statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) would suggest that employment levels have stabilised in the three months to June 2010, with unemployment falling by 49,000, employ-ment rising by 184,000, with 68,000 of them being full-time jobs. September 2010 |
Write back...Penelope Blackwell, director of fundraising, Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland September 2010 |
Commission publishes new finance guidanceThe Charity Commission has published four updated sets of financial guidance for charities and their advisers covering risk management; financial difficulties and insolvency; reserves and internal financial controls. August 2010 |
Community loses village hall after £1m legal battleThe Breedon on the Hill Community Association (BOTHCA) has lost its multi-million pound battle with the Leicester County Council (LCC) over the use of a village hall attached to St Hardulph’s Primary School. August 2010 |
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Employment in voluntary sector continues to riseLatest Labour Force Survey figures for the first quarter of 2010 show that the voluntary sector now employs 778,000 people, an increase of 6.5 per cent over the last year. This is in contrast to the public and private sectors which have shown a decrease of 0.5 per cent and 2.3 per cent respectively. August 2010 |
Here today, gone tomorrow?US philanthropists Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have persuaded 40 of America’s high net worth individuals to sign up to the Giving Pledge where the billionaires publicly agree to give away most of their wealth during their lifetime or relatively soon after their deaths. August 2010 |
New guide to SRI from EIRIS and CFDGA new guide: Socially Responsible Investment – A practical Introduction for Charity Trustees was published in June to help the increasing number of trustees who are adopting or updating responsible investment strategies on behalf of their organisations. August 2010 |
Unemployment in focusHistorically UK unemployment has been a laggard indicator of activity, companies have held on to their workforce as long as they could into the downturn but then been reluctant to hire when conditions improve, relying instead on overtime and extra shifts. August 2010 |
Write back ...Jay Kennedy, director of policy, Directory of Social Change August 2010 |
A runaway train?A disagreement between two active members of the 6024 Preservation Society Limited, a charity established in 1963 to purchase, restore and operate the ex-Great Western Railway steam locomotive, King Edward I, has resulted in a libel action. July 2010 |
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Charities keep up manpower investment in hard timesThe top 500 charities show no signs of cutting salary costs despite economic climate. July 2010 |
Cumbersome vetting scheme on holdThe vetting and barring scheme introduced by the Labour government has been halted and will be remodelled by its successor. July 2010 |
People-centrism: Alive and wellCharities have kept up their training investment despite the recession as they prepare for greater demands on their services July 2010 |
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Public still in the dark about 'big society'With the ‘big society’ emerging as a central theme in the coalition government’s approach to public services, new research suggests it’s time they started to tell society exactly what they mean by it. July 2010 |
