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					<title><![CDATA[Minister to investigate Labour-leaning Catz Club staff]]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/852558/Minister-investigate-Labour-leaning-Catz-Club-staff/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[New Cabinet Office minister Liam Byrne has agreed to investigate the roles played by two people with Labour Party connections in the funding of childcare charity Catz Club by Futurebuilders England.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Charities stand to lose millions in Iceland banks crisis]]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/852552/Charities-stand-lose-millions-Iceland-banks-crisis/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Three charities fear they have lost reserves totalling £25m in the wake of the banking collapse in Iceland.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Charity Commission considers flagging up 'captive charities']]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/852544/Charity-Commission-considers-flagging-captive-charities/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[The Charity Commission has said it will consider a call from MPs to flag up on its new online register charities that receive a high percentage of their income from a single source.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[No dodging accounts for small charities under OSCR proposals]]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/852087/No-dodging-accounts-small-charities-OSCR-proposals/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[All English and Welsh charities that operate in Scotland will have to submit annual accounts to the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator even if they are not required to file them with the Charity Commission under new cross-border regulation proposals.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Big Lottery Fund's £30m grants to overhaul council buildings]]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/852036/Big-Lottery-Funds-30m-grants-overhaul-council-buildings/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Thirty-eight voluntary sector organisations are set to receive a share of £30m of funding to take over disused local authority buildings.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Sketch: Charity Commission's new register]]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/851438/Sketch-Charity-Commissions-new-register/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[As the Charity Commission goes in to bat with its new register, a man from the crowd bowls a googly.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Tribunal calls for more free help]]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/851437/Tribunal-calls-free-help/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Alison McKenna, president of the Charity Tribunal, has called for more charity lawyers to offer pro bono help to appellants to the Charity Tribunal.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Charities protest at red border for overdue accounts]]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/851436/Charities-protest-red-border-overdue-accounts/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[Charities among the nearly 5,000 publicly shamed by the Charity Commission's new online register have labelled the system unfair.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Bubb and Lewis: 'no more secrecy']]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/851429/Bubb-Lewis-no-secrecy/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[The chair and chief executive of Futurebuilders England have spoken out against secrecy agreements on the loans it makes to third sector organisations.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Commission reveals public benefit test guinea pigs]]></title>
					<link>http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/channels/Policy/rss/article/851428/Commission-reveals-public-benefit-test-guinea-pigs/</link>
					<description><![CDATA[The Charity Commission has announced a list of 12 voluntary sector organisations that will be the first to be subjected to tests that determine whether they operate for the public benefit.]]></description>
					
					<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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