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The City of London Corporation’s charity, the City Bridge Trust, has approved substantial extra funding to support work with hard-to-reach young people, by awarding £1...

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Click here to download the article in printer-friendly PDF The Charity landscape is changing. Pressures of the economic climate, together with an increasing number of charities means there is effectively...
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Click here to download the article in printer-friendly PDF Social investment is about using repayable finance to make a positive difference to people’s lives and the communities in which they...
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Two major donations prompted by the Catalyst Arts programme, designed to help organisations get more money from private sources in the face of swingeing cuts in statutory funding to arts...

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Migrants are boosting donations for UK charities thanks to a “remittance culture,” say academics who found that families sending money abroad were more likely to give to British charities than other UK...

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Impetus Trust is one of three organisations awarded a £17.5m contract to extend the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP), Health Minister Dr Dan Poulter announced on 4th April. The...

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Four projects with a track record of improving the lives of thousands of people in the UK will receive more funding, Nick Hurd, UK Minister for Civil Society announced on...

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Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude calls today’s launch (Friday July 29th)  of the Big Society 'Bank' a ‘world changing moment’. It will be known as Big Society Capital (BSC) and its first...

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Professor Cathy Pharoah, of the Centre for Charitable Gving and Philanthropy  addressed how philanthropists might engage with Big Society at the Southwark Forum on 23rd June based on her  paper Private...

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The creation of the Big Society Bank, which will act as an engine for the nascent social investment market, could be delayed until next year.

Sir Ronald Cohen, independent adviser to...

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