Recruitment / people

National disability charity Livability has appointed Philip Roethenbaugh as its new Director of Fundraising and Communications. He joins from children's advocacy charity Voice.

The voluntary sector workforce has shrunk by 8.7% in the past 12 months according to analysis of the Labour Force Survey by Skills - Third Sector, the skills and training charity.

Fundraising recruitment specialists the Kage Partnership report that fundraisers at all levels in the London area secured an average salary increase in 2011 of 1%.

Fourteen philanthropists have been recognised with knighthoods or CBEs in the 2012 New Year Honours list.

The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has created a new role of Director of Social Investment and appointed Stephanie Sturrock to it.

Health charity Diabetes UK has appointed Paul Amadi as Director of Fundraising and he will take up his post in January 2012.

Fundraising shopping website easyfundraising.org.uk has appointed Dennis Campbell as its Partnerships Director, a new role at the company.

Alisa Fleishman has joined Sparks, the children's medical research charity, as head of events fundraising.

Redmond Mullin, who played a huge part in shaping fundraising as we know it today, has died.

Mick Aldridge has stepped down as Chief Executive of the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association (PFRA), the self-regulatory body for all forms of face-to-face (F2F) fundraising activity conducted i