The new coalition government’s plans to strengthen civil society through its Big Society programme are beginning to take shape, though it is clearly no longer top of the agenda. This...
Olga Alexeeva is leaving the Charities Aid Foundation where she is head of global trustees to set up a new charity that will focus on developing philanthropy...
Traditionally, growing bigger organisations and projects has been seen as a mark of success, but should size really be the main aim for those seeking to achieve social change? Guest...
The ninth annual Absolute Return for Kids (ARK) fundraising gala dinner earlier in May raised an impressive £14.1m in one evening, though down from a peak of...
Social return on investment (SROI), which calculates the social value of project outputs from the beneficiaries’ point of view and assigns them a cash value, could be facing crunch time,...
The new culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has issued a call to arts-loving philanthropists to step in and fund the gap that government cuts will inevitably create as a result of...
Philanthropy UK's regular column on ‘Green Giving’ for 2010 is a response to the superordinate challenge that climate change and other environmental issues present to us all. Though Philanthropy UK is cause...
Hong Kong based Chinese billionaire businessman and K.B.E. Sir Ka-shing Li is donating £5m to Oxford University, which adds to the £800m already raised by the ...