Strategy and planning, Government and the Voluntary Sector, Management & leadership —
Charity Commission chair: sector leaders call for party political neutrality in the appointment process
ACEVO has coordinated a letter from ten charity sector organisations, including DSC, to the chair of the DCMS Select Committee....
ByRebecca Eddington, Researcher, DSC —Fundraising, Management & leadership, Government and the Voluntary Sector —
DSC policy update - week commencing 26 October 2020
DSC Researcher, Rebecca Eddington, rounds up the policy news from around the sector.
ByJay Kennedy, Director of Policy and Research —
Another round of disinformation from the Charity Commission leadership
Sitting through the Charity Commission’s AGM today, I veered between despair, fury, resignation, uncontrollable laughter, and feeling like it was...
ByJay Kennedy, Directory of Policy and Research, DSC, and Daniel Ferrell-Schweppenstedde, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, DSC —
Don’t eat the bad fruit from the Garden Bridge tree...
...the failure of ‘a’ charity is not a failure of ‘charity’. One high-profile failure pushed by big name backers simply...
ByDaniel Ferrell-Schweppenstedde, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, DSC —
More regulation isn’t the answer to everything...
... and charities are drowning in it. Our already heavily regulated sector has been subjected to a blizzard of new...
ByMairéad Bailie, Researcher, DSC —
In the news last week...The Charity Commission launches its Digital Code of Practice
In the news last week (besides from all the Brexit madness), the Charity Commission launched the final version of the...
ByDaniel Ferrell-Schweppenstedde, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, DSC —Policy, campaigns & research, Policy —
Are we talking about the right approach to fix the Charity Commission’s budget?
An independent and well-resourced Charity Commission is crucial for the well-being of the charity sector. But the Commission has seen...
ByJay Kennedy, Directory of Policy and Research, DSC, and Daniel Ferrell-Schweppenstedde, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, DSC —Policy, campaigns & research, Policy —
New toolkit revealed to question charity regulator’s political independence
Following regular and widely-held concerns about the party-political bias of the previous Charity Commission Chair William Shawcross, and the subsequent...
