Third Sector Articles

The recently published ‘big society audit’ is the first major independent attempt to measure how far, in practice, a genuine transfer of power from government to civil society has taken place in the two years since the term emerged as a theme for the coalition...

It’s jubilee year! Yes, 25 years since the instigation of payroll giving, that remarkable means by which you can donate to charity from your earnings and not pay tax on that sum.    In that time Britain’s employees have contributed £1.2bn to charities of their choice...

Financial services bills do not normally arouse great interest within the third sector of charities, social enterprises and voluntary organisations – but in 2012 a brief few days of hope in the bill committee has ended with extreme disappointment. Amendment 72 to the...

Bill Clinton recently wrote a piece in the Financial Times entitled ‘Charity needs capitalism to solve the world’s problems’; do I dimly remember Marx saying something similar about how socialism needed capitalism in order to work, too? The point the former president...