Archive - 2002

The Charity Finance Directors' Group (CFDG) has given an enthusiastic welcome to the Strategy Unit Report 'Private Action, Public Benefit'.

The New Opportunities Fund (NOF) and Community Fund are engaged in merger discussions. Voluntary sector publishing and training organisation The Directory of Social Change argues this represents a threat to the independence of a key source of charitable funding.

Warren Tranquada and John Pepin explain the lessons that should be applied when an organisation creates a new nonprofit or for-profit spinoff.

Children's charity NCH has won lottery funding for the first time for one of its lead projects.


NCH recently reviewed its policy on applying for lottery funding, with particular reference to the current position of the Methodist Church.

This review of policy means that NCH's Caerphilly Children's Centre is to be

Online donations can be made not only via a charity's Web site but also by the various online giving sites, such as AllAboutGiving.org.

This year, £13,000 alone was given to the BBC Children in Need campaign through Charities Aid Foundation's AllAboutGiving.org. Over 300 people made donations online at the site to children's charity.

Charities Aid Foundation has published the first edition of an e-mail newsletter for users of its AllAboutGiving.org Web site.

No ban.

Red Cross has not banned Christmas

In response to misleading and inaccurate reports in the media, Sir Nicholas Young, Chief Executive of the British Red Cross, explains about Christmas decorations in British Red Cross shops.

The Giving Campaign has announced two new staff members.

Phillip Mind joins The Giving Campaign as Campaign Manager for Strategy and Operations on secondment from the Treasury. His key role will be to lead the Campaign in raising financial advisers' awareness of tax-effective giving and developing planned giving products.

Since launching its online payroll giving option in August 2002 Diabetes UK has attracted 23 donors from 23 companies.

Diabetes UK teamed up with Bmycharity.com to offer online payroll giving from their Web site, thereby enabling employees and members of company pension schemes to start giving tax-efficiently directly from their pay.

David Hart has been appointed National Co-ordinator at REACH to focus the charity's volunteer matching service on people with disabilities.

REACH recruits managers and professionals with time to give and places them as part-time, expenses-only volunteers with voluntary organisations needing their career expertise. The service is free both to volunteers and voluntary organisations.