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Charity and Voluntary Sector
CO: Charity trustees can now apply to set up a new form of charity – Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) – which will make it easier for people to set up & run a charity and protect them from being personally liable if the organisation runs into financial problems.
BIG: Hundreds of children with mobility issues are to get support to gain new skills & confidence during residential breaks as part of a nationwide Lottery good cause roll-out recently. 64 projects share in £14.8m from the Big Lottery Fund’s Reaching Communities programme which aims to help those most in need and build stronger communities.
10 DS: Downing Street has named Magic Breakfast and Friends of the Elderly as its 2 charity partners for 2013 and DS staff will pledge time throughout the year to support the charities’ work:
* Magic Breakfast provides free, healthy breakfasts to school children, boosting attendance, punctuality, concentration & behaviour
* Friends of the Elderly reaches out to older people at risk of loneliness and isolation
DCMS: A consultation on whether to change the minimum amount of proceeds that a Society Lottery has to return to good causes will be launched in 2013 the Culture Secretary Maria Miller announced recently.
The consultation is a response to the changing lottery market, including the increasing use of professional lottery managers’ and umbrella schemes, such as the Health Lottery, which promote several lotteries under one banner.
The consultation is a response to the changing lottery market, including the increasing use of professional lottery managers’ and umbrella schemes, such as the Health Lottery, which promote several lotteries under one banner.
The consultation will explore ways of ensuring that the market delivers the maximum benefit to good causes, including those supported by the National Lottery and will look at whether there is a case for changing the minimum percentage of proceeds that society lotteries are required to apply to their good causes, which is currently set at 20%.
TPT: 10% of young people feel they cannot cope with day-to-day life, warns The Prince's Trust Youth Index, which reveals that young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) are more than twice as likely to feel unable to cope as their peers.
