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Impact investing continues to rise up the agenda. It was a hot topic at Davos with TPG’s Rise Fund (co-founded by Bono) getting airtime. New impact funds are coming on stream weekly – in the …

Impact investing is in many respects the issue of the day. Tony Blair, commenting on the fallout for the Labour Party after the General Election, stated, ‘We have to be the policy innovators, those seeking …

We’ve had a week of talking about growth. This is what the economy is finally doing, as the Chancellor pointed out in his Autumn Statement; but living standards aren’t growing at all, the opposition responded. …

The UK should make more of a fuss about its philanthropists. Private donors give away billions of pounds every year, from the armies of people with monthly direct debits for chosen causes to the mega-rich …

One of the first obstacles people face when they plan giving away some of their wealth is the difficulty of getting started. We certainly hear a lot of that at NPC: individuals put money into …

At the start of October I was fortunate enough to be invited to the launch of Beth Breeze and Theresa Lloyd’s Richer Lives: Why rich people give. Focused on the motivations and giving practices of …

I was contacted recently by a friend who has quit her job in investment banking to travel solo on her motorbike from London to Cape Town. She wants to devote at least a month of her …

The ‘Giving Green Paper’ was launched during the good will period between Christmas and New Year and achieved some media coverage as a result, but interestingly not much response from the charity sector. The paper’s …