Want to raise a lot of money from the public? The answer, according to Sir Stuart Etherington the chief of Britain’s voluntary sector trade body, the NCVO, speaking at a conference in London on Thursday morning, is to set up a charity featuring “a Labrador driving a life boat”. Most giving, he argued, is not […]
Britain’s Coalition Government gave another hint today about its Big Society big idea that it hopes will win over the voters, with the launch of an £80 million ($130 million) match fund to get philanthropists to start giving to the arts. Though the fund is a good idea, the government is still tinkering at the edges and more major […]
There’s a bit of a ‘phoney war’ feeling in Britain at the moment. Whichever party (parties?) takes power after the general election that will be held some time before May 6th, the parlous state of the nation’s finances will demand a complete re-egineering of government. Yet we won’t know what our politicians have planned until […]