UIA Insurance Limited (UIA), the only specialist affinity insurer to the non-profit sector, has re-branded in response to independent customer research into its values.
The new brand is designed to reflect UIA's mutual status, experience and distinctive position within the non-profit sector.
Rupert Moyle has joined the VAT team at accountants and business advisors PKF. He brings specialist knowledge of the registered social landlords and charity sectors.
Rupert joins PKF as VAT manager and is based at the firm's London head office, where he will work with clients in the charity/housing sectors on all issues related to indirect tax. PKF has 400 clients in these sectors.
The Dickens £10 note will not be legal tender from after today.
The Bank of England will withdraw the £10 note with a portrait of Charles Dickens on the reverse from tomorrow. If your charity still has any of these notes they should be paid promptly into a bank, Post Office or building society.
Charity Logistics has invited the Association of British Insurers (ABI) to substantiate its claim that ABI members, providing cover for charities, are "losing money hand over fist from this kind of work."
The Charity Finance Directors' Group has given a big welcome to the proposals for futurebuilders and its much needed investment in capital projects.
CFDG particularly welcomed the plans to devote 80% of futurebuilder funds to capital investment. CFDG has argued that investment in efficiency and capital projects has for too long been under funded.
The results of Charity Logistics' recent survey - "Risk Management Club for the VCS Sector: Feasibility" was presented today at the Association of British Insurers' voluntary sector Action Day.
The free charity pen beloved by many direct marketing fundraisers could disappear following a ruling on VAT.
HM Customs and Excise is to require suppliers to charge VAT on pens to charities who insert them in fundraising direct mail packs. This will probably make this model too expensive for charities to continue to use.
The Charity Finance Directors’ Group has today (23rd June) launched the Charities Resource Network (CRN), an innovative database driven information website (www.thecrn.org.uk) which seeks to strengt