WAND UK is pleased to offer FREE dancing programme at Fatima Community Centre from 26 February 2020.
Please see below for more information.
The ultimate guide for charities and organisations working on the front line, supporting those living in poverty or with complex, multiple needs.
“With its straightforward navigation, this guide helps you to quickly and easily identify appropriate grant-giving charities, including smaller local organisations.” Tina Willis, Casework Teamleader, UNISON Thereforyou
Click on the links below for top tips from DSC.
Creating the organisational culture you want
Delegation: things as a manager you should not be doing
Valuing evaluation: ten top tips
Our crowdfunding campaign to support free training in the local community is live and ends on 4th March.
Please see the campaign page and rewards at https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/the-square-boxing-club
We’re offering lots of great rewards at heavily discounted prices. e.g. a taster class for £10.
For info, our first free community training sessions with the Community Actions project start this week for children and will run for 6 weeks every Thursday (details on above campaign link).
DSC’s first catalogue of the year features publications, research and in-house learning and development, and this version includes brilliant training courses brand new for 2020. Click below to view or download your own.
Five new year – and new decade – resolutions for legacy fundraisers
Inside the Complete Fundraising Handbook
Choosing a fundraising consultant: ten top tips
At our recent seminar looking at what’s on the horizon for charities in 2020, we highlighted the changes to the IR35 tax rules that are expected to come into effect on 6 April this year. IR35 governs the tax treatment of pay to consultants supplying their services via an intermediary. The changes will apply to all medium and large sized private sector organisations, including charities and not-for-profit bodies.
On 7 January the Government launched a review amid confusion about how and when the new rules will apply, and concerns that organisations could be exposed to unexpected increases in costs and a shortage of skills. However, the changes are still scheduled to become law in April this year. So what should charities be doing now to prepare? Click here
The following information was taken from the UK Civil Society Almanac 2019:
- £22.9 billion was raised directly from the public during 2016/17
- £15.8 billion was given by the Government
- £4.8 billion was given by the voluntary sector in the form of Grants
- £2.5 billion was given by the private sector
And,
- £0.5 billion was given by The National Lottery.
Organisations with an income of over £1 million are fewer in numbers but account for more than 80% of the sectors income. Consequently, it is these larger organisations that continue to grow.
That said there has been growth in income driven by grants between 2001 and 2017 whereas monies overall coming from Government have plateaued.
So hooray to Grant funders!
And, monies from local government have also been falling while income from central government has grown slightly.
By Nigel Jacques, Sobus Organisation Developement Officer
We’re expecting a new research report from the Charity Commission on charity pay any day now which has the potential to create yet another negative media storm about charities. Are you ready? Click here
At Z2K, we have a well-established tribunals project, which gives us the capacity to represent around 500 people a year at tribunal. Since 2016, we have seen an increase in the numbers of disabled and unwell Londoners coming to Z2K for help with their disability and sickness benefits that have been stopped by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Our fully co-ordinated scheme connects pro bono lawyers from nine different law firms to low income Londoners who are in need of tribunal representation when they are denied their disability benefits – Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
Website tribunal@z2k.org
sobus
20 Dawes Road, London, SW6 7EN
Telephone 020 7952 1230
Email info@sobus.org.uk
Registered Charity No.1071089
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Sobus is a new Community Development Agency for Hammersmith & Fulham. It has been created through the merger of the Community and Voluntary Sector Association Hammersmith & Fulham (CaVSA) and the Fulham Community Partnership Trust (FCPT). Building on the strengths of both organisations, sobus aims to provide a wider range of support services for local charities, community groups, social enterprises and start up businesses.