The government is to publish improved guidance to make it easier for people to organise voluntary events in their communities, removing inconsistencies and confusion highlighted by a review of existing guidance.
The Budget statement announced on Wednesday 20 March 2013 has included that from April 2014, every UK business and charity will be entitled to a £2,000 Employment Allowance towards their bill for National Insurance contributions.
The South West Forum is undertaking a final evaluation for the Big Lottery funded EMFAN project on behalf of One East Midlands. As part of the evaluation we are running a survey for all EMFAN members. We would be grateful if you could complete the survey by Friday 19 April.
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs has issued further guidance for charities on how to make gift aid claims online using its upcoming Charities Online Service.
Locality is opening a new programme of support and grants, with £9.5million funding available to help communities create neighbourhood plans, on 1 May.
Community How To, a joint project from Online Centres Foundation and Nominet Trust, aims to help VCS organisations find digital tools to help them with their work and to share ideas and tools with others.
The Charities Aid Foundation has launched a year-long cross-party Parliamentary inquiry into Growing Giving in a bid to source ideas on how to boost young philanthropy, workplace giving and giving in older age.
