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Ian Theodoreson, chair of the Charity Finance Group, opened the umbrella body’s 2012 Annual Conference, ‘Inspiring Financial Leadership’, by pulling no punches on the Government’s policy agenda for the sector. Two years on from the formation of the coalition, charities are facing major challenges. Mixed messages and an unclear policy agenda are not helping.

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Lord William Wallace of Saltaire, Cabinet Office spokesman in the House of Lords, told sector leaders yesterday that he "hopes" the government is making progress on delivering for civil society.

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One of the major barriers to building a healthy and thriving civil society is the almost complete withdrawal from community activity of the “natural elite” such as solicitors and City bankers, Lord Phillips of Sudbury said yesterday.

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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 Roger Singleton, a former board member of the now-defunct Capacitybuilders, has expressed doubts over whether its £150m funding of infrastructure bodies actually helped frontline charities during its six-year history.

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Gareth Thomas won some senior charity sector support yesterday after criticising coalition ministers for not representing or listening to sector concerns well enough.

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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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The government’s Big Society initiative is failing to bolster cuts because it is not sufficiently engaging poorer communities, the young and ethnic minorities, an independent audit has warned.

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