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Demanding times: how trusts that make grants to individuals are responding to rising social need
Several years of recession, deep public sector cuts and a squeeze on funding for charitable services are taking their toll on vulnerable people – so how are grantmakers that support individual beneficiaries reacting to the changing environment?
Learn more£150m Olympics cash could be returned to Lottery good causes by 2014
Our Big Lottery Refund campaign is starting to bear fruit – a recent letter we received from sports Minister Hugh Robertson MP confirms that up to £150 million may be paid back to lottery distributors from the Olympic Lottery Distribution Fund by 2014.
Learn moreRecent news
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- News item: Linking Volunteer Recruitment to PR
Recent reports
- If the cap doesn't fit, give it up, George! [pdf document]
- DSC Response to the Review of the Charities Act 2006 [pdf document].
- Big Society in the Middle East: Could Big Society be both cause and cure of the Arab revolutions? [pdf document].
- Additional analysis of the research evidence on individual giving (submitted by DSC in response to the Giving green paper March 2011) [pdf document].
- DSC response to the Government’s Giving green paper consultation (March 2011) [pdf document].