Union report highlights 'unacceptable' level of bullying
4 July 2008
Almost half the members of trade union Unite who work in the voluntary sector have experienced bullying in the past two years, research has suggested.
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4 July 2008
Almost half the members of trade union Unite who work in the voluntary sector have experienced bullying in the past two years, research has suggested.
4 July 2008
All charitable private schools will pass the Charity Commission's new public benefit test, according to the chair of the Independent Schools Council.
4 July 2008
Campaigners are to lobby financial institutions in a bid to help charities access hundreds of millions of pounds of assets left to them in supporters' wills.
3 July 2008
Futurebuilders is to establish a £10m fund to help charities deliver more offender management services.
3 July 2008
The Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland today launches a drive to recruit a board of commissioners for the province's forthcoming Charity Commission.
Compact compere - Richard Corden wants to establish what people mean by 'statutory force'.
The sale of part of the ECT Group raises fundamental issues for the rest of the sector. Helen Warrell reports.
The sector has been hit hard by the Legal Services Commission's policy of issuing fewer, larger contacts for advice services. Are the changes driven by the needs of clients or the necessity to cut costs? John Plummer reports.
"For many, the Compact can be bureaucratic and hard work. For me, it means collaboration."
John Knight, assistant director, policy and campaigns, Leonard Cheshire Disability