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Men may have ruled the political panel, but women packed the punches from the audience in the Civil Society Question Time debate, says Niki May Young.

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Sir Nicholas Young, chief executive of British Red Cross, has said the whinging of the voluntary sector to government can get depressing.

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Baroness Hayter, the new spokeswoman for the shadow Cabinet Office team in the House of Lords, has criticised NCVO for not lobbying on behalf of the voluntary sector when the Welfare Reform Bill was going through Parliament.

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Acevo is restructuring ahead of its move into the NCVO building at King’s Cross this summer, and making three staff redundant.
 

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Attitudes to publicly funded charities are hardening, Acevo head will say in anniversary speech

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Plans for a cap on tax relief for donations come under fire at Admiralty House, where Treasury minister David Gauke and charities minister Nick Hurd face sector representatives

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Sector representatives met Treasury ministers in what Acevo deputy chief executive Peter Kyle calls a sometimes 'heated' meeting

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Letter from the Acevo chief to communities secretary Eric Pickles says the move will damage the Right to Bid scheme

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The independence of the Charity Commission has been called into question by Sir Stephen Bubb who says the regulator should have piped up against government claims of tax avoidance through dodgy charities.

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The drinks reception of the Giving Summit has been scrapped, but the Summit will go ahead as sector leaders suggest the networking soiree may have been untenable due to the friction over the donations tax relief cap.

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