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Charities and collaboration: an alternative to merger?

As we’ve seen from recent reports from the Charity Commission, despite feeling the effects from the economic downturn, very few charities are considering merging. Why?

Reactions to the White Paper on Giving

The Government published its White Paper on Giving this morning, 66 pages of proposals to boost givin

Another chance to have your say about the future of cheques

If your charity is concerned about moves to phase out cheques by 2018 and the impact it could have on donations, you have another opportunity to express these as the Commons Treasury Select Committee

A new focus for UK Fundraising's Facebook page

What is the purpose of UK Fundraising's page on Facebook?

2011 Budget – what NFP organisations need and what they are likely to get

David Pinches

Whilst all sectors of society – families, pensioners, students, trade unions and businesses – are fearful of the measures that George Osborne will outline in his budget on 23rd March, it is arguably t

Apple phones do not support donations - sign the petition

Beth Kanter has recently flagged up something really basic: problems with sending donations via Apple iPhone device!

No face to face fundraising here, thank you

That's the message in the MS Trust's comment in the fundraising news section of its website last month.

Collected views on The Big Society

Crowd blur - photo: Victoria Peckham on Flickr.com

I'm confused by the new government's Big Society initiative, not least because it has had to be "launched" twice within a few months.

An alternative approach to Gift Aid reform

New Gift Aid was introduced by the then Chancellor, Gordon Brown, as part of his ‘Get Britain Giving ‘campaign.

Part 1: Fundraising is not for wimps

At first, I felt dreadfully sorry for the fundraiser (as reported in Third Sector a few days ago) who was so upset by abusive phone calls from members of the public that she quit not just her job but left the whole charity sector. It’s not the first time that I’ve heard about a member of the public being so obnoxious that they’ve reduced a fundraiser to tears. In fact, it happened to someone I know just a couple of days ago.

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