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The Big Lottery Fund has announced that projects throughout England now have the opportunity to apply for repeat and on-going activities under Awards for All in a pilot scheme running until the end of March 2013.

The Disclosure and Barring Service, a new organisation formed from the merger of the Criminal Records Bureau and the Independent Safeguarding Authority, has been launched.

The government has rejected Lord Hodgson’s recommendation to allow large charities to pay their trustees without authorisation from the Charity Commission and will also not abolish National Exemption Orders for house-to-house collections before an alternative system is devised.

Small and medium sized charities reported deficits of more than £300million in 2011, compared with an overall surplus of £325million in 2007, according to an analysis of the latest accounts by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF).