Social investment is a rapidly developing field attracting considerable policy interest, but as yet little research, and the ESRC and the Skoll Centre are sponsoring four interdisciplinary seminars to explore...
The Government has pledged £515m of investment for the third sector in a combined Comprehensive Spending Review and Pre-Budget Report, confirming the funding plans originally outlined in the Third Sector...
Screenwriter Richard Curtis will be honoured at this year’s BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards with the humanitarian award for his commitment to philanthropy.
London Funders, the membership organisation working with funders and investors that support London’s third sector, has appointed its first Director, Gaynor Humphreys.
A fund that aims to enable a greater number of charities to develop their organisational and operational capacity and achieve long term sustainability has been launched by The Cranfield Trust.
The "Nobel Prize for Philanthropy," the Carnegie Medals programme will this year, on October 17th, honour four of the world’s most prolific philanthropists – the Heinz family, the Mellon family,...
Impetus has announced its ninth investment in IntoUniversity, a charity dedicated to supporting young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to aspire to and achieve a university place.
The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has rejected the proposal made by a coalition of sector umbrella bodies to the Government's consultation on Gift Aid.
Two hundred and fifty eight charities have benefited from grants of over £4.9M given by the Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales in the last quarter to September.
A new report on the future of philanthropy in the UK states that community foundations will need to increase their endowments by £2.5bn over the next 20 years if they...