The Charities and Not For Profit Group monitors the important developments in the sector and provides a commentary where appropriate.
The latest web and press news in the sector appears below;
- Charities Commission: About the Charities Act 2011
- Charities Commission: Review of the Charities Act 2006
- Charities Commission: Public benefit workshops
- Charities Commission: Charity standards endorsed
- Charities Commission: 'Show your impact', regulator tells charities
- Charities Commission: New Risk Framework published
- Charities Commission: Industrial and Provident Societies
- Charities Commission: Public benefit guidance update
- Charities Commission: New mobile website makes donating safer
- Charities Commission: Charities Act 2011
- Charities Commission: Commission publishes new Strategic Plan
- Payroll giving is easy (Originally published in PayrollWorld)
- Does the decision in Reed provide an opportunity for charities to receive a refund of VAT on the cost of temporary workers? (Originally published in Charities Management, Early Summer 2011 edition)
- The tax dimension of charities having fit and proper people (Originally publishing in Charities Management, Autumn 2010 edition)
- Key legislative and regulatory matters to be addressed (Originally published in Charities Management, Autumn 2008 edition)
- The implications of the Equality Act 2010 for charities (Originally published in Charities Management, Late Autumn 2010 edition)
- Mergers, acquisitions and restructuring (Originally published in Charities Management, Early Summer 2010 edition)
- Considering charity risk (Originally published in Charities Management, Early Summer 2010 edition)
- Consulting on the future of care (Originally published in Charities Management)
- Charities commission: Report published into charities awarded grants by Big Lottery Fund
- Charities commission: Commission publishes investment guidance for charities
- Charities commission: Charity Commission statement on the Upper Tribunal's decision
- Charities commission: Charity review project launched
- Charities commission: Equality Act and charities
- Charities commission: Commission publishes inquiry report on Crescent Relief
- ICAEW 2011 Everybody Counts Awards
- Third sector finance: Effective fraud prevention requires input from charities, says NCVO report
- Civil society: NCVO working group calls for regulators to consult with the sector on fraud
- Charities commission: 'Show your impact', regulator tells charities
- Charities commission: Trustees should be honest about charity spending
- Charities commission: Endorsement of Community Matters VISIBLE Standards 2011
- Third sector: Larger charities 'will not benefit from new charitable incorporated organisation legal form
- CTG: CTG Welcomes the publication of the consultation on the VAT cost-sharing exemption
- Charity Commission: Commission calls on charities to become more independent
- BSI: New guide to sustainable development of communities
- ASB: Tentative decisions over future of FRS and delay to implementation for publicly accountable entities
- HMRC: A new incentive for charitable legacies
- Charities Commission: Helping small charities avoid problems
- Charities Commission: Charity networks help raise standards
- Charities Commission: Model Governing Documents Updated
- Charities Commission: Fraud update
- Charities Commission: Trustees Guidance on holding, moving and receiving funds
- HMRC: Revised Guidance on Audits by HMRC Charities
- NCVO: Policy analysis of the Giving White Paper
- NCVO: Charities could be marginalised by the Government’s Health Reforms
- NCVO: Tribunal considers issue of charities and public benefit
- CTG: CTG Welcomes new EU VAT study
- Deloitte Survey on Annual Reports
- Charity Commission: Wildife Aid Report Published
- Charities Commission: Insurance Guidance for Charities has been revised
- Charities Commission: Future of UK Accounting and Charities SORP (a second podcast released)
- Charities Commission: Exempt Charities: updated guidance on recent changes
- NCVO: Charity Forecast Survey
- Charity Commission: Charitable Incorporated Organisation
- FRC: Draft accounting standard for public benefit medium-sized entities is published
- Charities Commission: A second podcast on the future of charity reporting from ACCA
- Charities Commission: Latest public benefit assessments findings published
- Deloitte Budget comment - charities and charitable giving
- FRC: Proposals for a Public Benefit Entity Standard for Tier 2 Entities
- Charity Commission: Advises Housing Associations on the Governments new affordable rents social housing product
- Charity Commission: Charity Commission releases report after £2.5m charity fraudsters jailed
- Deloitte UK: Potential of corporate responsibility for third sector has yet to be realised
- Charity Commission: Publishes report on Iqra Inquiry
- Charity Commission: Charity regulator sets out initial conclusions on future strategy
- HMRC: Online filing of Company Tax Returns: managing the transition
- CTG: The Charity Tax Map
- Big Lottery Fund: The first awards from the Transition fund