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The Wood Family Trust (WFT) invested £7.5m in two Rwandan tea factories alongside Lord David Sainsbury’s Gatsby Foundation in December last year, its 2012 Annual Report revealed last month.

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Social investor Allia this week launched the first social impact bond (SIB) offering to retail investors.  The SIB for Essex County Council aims to improve the life outcomes of 380...

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Registration of charities in Northern Ireland should begin this autumn after Royal Assent was granted on the bill to amend the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 last month. 



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Stewardship, the UK charity that promotes generous and tax efficient giving to churches and charities , this month published four papers that explain changes in the way that Gift Aid operates...

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Arts Council England (ACE) last month awarded £2m over three years to the Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy Consortium to professionalise arts fundraising across England and promote the arts as a...

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The idea that charitable giving is a simple matter compared with making money has been attacked by international philanthropists and entrepreneurs from Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates.

Perhaps philanthropy is...

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Today the Treasury launched a  consultation on a range of measures it believes will increase take-up of the system that allows UK income taxpayers to make regular donations, tax free,...

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29 January 2013

The world has been changed and made much smaller by social media. Through Facebook, billions stay connected by sharing photos, introducing new products, sharing ideas, and discussing...

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The current top-down approach to strategic philanthropy limits its overall effectiveness, leading to a widening disparity between the amount of money invested in communities and what is actually being accomplished....

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