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UK charity body urges approval for total-return and mixed-motive investments
The UK’s Charity Law Association (CLA) has recommended that trustees should be free to invest on a total-return basis without seeking prior Charity Commission approval. As part of its submission to the government’s Charities Act …
Working together to make a difference
Last November youth unemployment in the UK broke the 1 million barrier. As the recession rumbles on, the job market continues to shrink, and public spending cuts – to youth services, post-16 education and training …
View from the bridge: ACF conference looks to challenging times
The opening plenary of the UK’s Association of Charitable Foundations’ 2011 conference on 18 October was called ‘view from the bridge’. And the view was very much what we might have expected to see: what …
Beware consensus: we’re all venture philanthropists now!
On 21 September I attended an event in London to launch Beyond money: A study of funding plus in the UK. The study, written by the Institute for Voluntary Action Research and commissioned by Barrow …
Gathering support for scheme that supplements public provision with private initiative
The UK Minister for Civil Society has announced that four local authorities will run trial social impact bond schemes, offering contracts to charities and social enterprises to tackle what he calls ‘the pointless cycle of …
TSRC finds civic activism unevenly distributed – signs of a not-so-big society?
What does the typical UK volunteer look like? The Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC), a collaboration between the Universities of Birmingham and Southampton, thinks it has a good idea. Based on a two-year research project …
Getting more out of payroll giving
Payroll giving is one of the easiest ways for people to give regularly to charity. But it is also something that a lot of countries are really bad at, particularly us Brits. In the US …
