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Charity Commission Interim Manager appointment

23rd March 2014

Helen Harvie, in her role as Charity Consultant to Barlow Robbins LLP is appointed by the Charity Commission as Interim Manager to Kingsway International Christian Centre…

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SROI NETWORK launch new website to aid social value commissioning

22nd March 2014

The Social Value Act 2012, which was executed on 8 March 2012, has been established to focus and encourage commissioners to consider social value in commissioning decisions. [read more…]

The Charity Commission has delayed the conversion of companies into CIOs

19th March 2014

The Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) legal form grants an organisation the benefits of charitable status and also confers limited liability and legal personality but is not required to register with Companies House or comply with company law.

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The Charity Tax Group raise concerns about proposed Laws relating to ‘tax-avoidance charities’…

17th March 2014

The Charity Tax Group (CTG) has suggested that there could be ‘unintended negative implications” for the wider charity sector of the proposed changes to the law to prevent charities being established to avoid tax.

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Ex-DfE chief suggests small schools ‘could close to save cash’…

16th March 2014

Sir David Bell, former chief civil servant, has suggested that they should consider axing small schools following concern that they are a drain on the public finances. Mergers requiring schools to federate under an executive head teacher and closure of small primary schools to create better value-for-money, therefore freeing cash for universities, is part of the suggested way forward. Lifting the ring-fencing of the school budget would also focus the Headteachers, who Bell suggests have “taken their foot off the efficiency pedal”. [read more…]

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