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Poll Positions - a Challenge for Charities
On the day Parliament voted to trigger June’s general election, the Electoral Commission announced that it had fined Friends of the Earth...
Jon Benjamin
Apr 19, 20172 min read


Another Fine Mess
The charity sector has hit the headlines again with the fines levied on 11 household name organisations by the Information Commissioner’s...
Jon Benjamin
Apr 5, 20172 min read


You've never done enough!
“You’ve never done enough.” That was the somewhat startling closing message from a senior charity lawyer at a day-long seminar on...
jonbe3
Mar 11, 20172 min read
A Fundraising Preference Service? Have your say.
Sometimes it can almost seem as if charities are bracketed with bankers and estate agents in the category of those who engage in sharp...
jonbe3
Mar 2, 20162 min read
Call yourself a charity trustee?
With high profile cases like the Kids Company debacle in the news and claiming the scalp of chair of the trustees Alan Yentob, few would...
Jon Benjamin
Jan 5, 20162 min read
Kids Company and beyond
Jo Coleman considers how charities can improve their governance in the light of the Kids Company closure. As 2015 draws to a close, trust...
Jo Coleman
Dec 24, 20154 min read
Get the message right and your supporters will 'opt-in'.
There’s the old joke about the man shipwrecked on a desert island who tells his fellow survivors not to panic. The charity he gives money...
Jon Benjamin
Dec 13, 20152 min read
Losing our religion?
The Supreme Court’s recent decision to recognise the Church of Scientology as a religion, and therefore to allow one of its chapels to be...
jonbe3
Dec 15, 20133 min read
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