Charity and Voluntary Sector

CAB: As the new payday lending customer charter is launched, Citizens Advice Bureaux across the country are releasing new figures demonstrating a worrying increase in the number of serious debt cases relating to payday loans. The Citizens Advice service has seen a 10-fold increase in the proportion of clients receiving casework help with multiple debts which included a payday loan debt in the last 4 years.
Press release & links ~ CAB - Power to cap costs and limit rollovers for payday loans is long overdue
 
DCMS: Cultural organisations – particularly outside of the capital – have been given a series of practical measures to improve fundraising in a report published last week.   Philanthropy Beyond London is the second in a series of 3 independent studies commissioned by Government looking at new ways of boosting arts philanthropy.  The first report, on legacy giving, was published earlier this month.
 
The report makes 19 recommendations, including the introduction of “friends” schemes and for CEOs to make fundraising leadership one of their key priorities.
Press release & links
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