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Cabinet Office: Phil Hope, Minister for the Third Sector, and Dame Suzi Leather, Chair of the Charity Commission, have jointly published, for consultation (closes on 31 March 2008), a package of proposals to increase various financial thresholds for charities.  

 

If implemented, these measures will enable thousands of registered charities to meet their accounting & reporting obligations in a simpler & less expensive way, freeing up resources for up to 75% (125,000) of registered main charities and helping ensure they are not disproportionately burdened by regulation.

 

In addition both the Cabinet Office and Charity Commission published their second annual simplification plans that set out a number of measures to reduce the burden of red tape on charities by 2010.

Press release ~ Financial Thresholds in the Charities Acts - Proposals for Change ~ Simplification Plan ~ CC – Simplification Plan ~ Charities Act 2006

 

BIG: The winner of the Big Lottery Fund £50 million prize is Sustrans: Connect2, which is a UK-wide project that will create new cycling and walking routes to improve local travel in 79 communities across the country.
Press release ~ Sustrans: Connect2 ~ The People's 50 Million lottery