By Jay Kennedy, Director of Policy and Research, DSC — Policy, Policy, campaigns & research —
Don’t shoot the messenger
A great frustration of the current political crisis is that pressing social problems are pushed on to the back burner,...
By Mairéad Bailie, Researcher, DSC —
In the news last week...
The latest happenings in the charity sector.
By Jay Kennedy, Director of Policy and Research — Policy, Policy, campaigns & research —
Campaigners hail new Labour Party commitment to increase grant funding
In its new Civil Society Strategy launched today, the Labour Party commits to increase grant funding for charities and establish...
By Jay Kennedy, Director of Policy and Research — Policy, Policy, campaigns & research —
Change is afoot with charity accounting – trustees take note!
There was a consultation on how the SORP is governed last year, and the results are out. Jay Kennedy, Director...
By Jay Kennedy, DSC Director of Policy and Research and Daniel Ferrell-Schweppenstedde, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, DSC —
Don’t eat the bad fruit from the Garden Bridge tree...
...the failure of ‘a’ charity is not a failure of ‘charity’. One high-profile failure pushed by big name backers simply...
By Daniel Ferrell-Schweppenstedde, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, DSC —
More regulation isn’t the answer to everything...
... and charities are drowning in it. Our already heavily regulated sector has been subjected to a blizzard of new...
By Daniel Ferrell-Schweppenstedde, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, DSC —
The Chancellor’s spring statement is written in chalk…and it’s raining outside
We had a look at Philip Hammond’s spring statement, which was labelled by some as a ‘non-event’ in the run...
By Judith Turner, Senior Researcher, DSC and Mairéad Bailie, Researcher, DSC —
News Release: System for reporting on gender pay gap data is massively flawed
New research by the Directory of Social Change (DSC) reveals massive difficulties in finding accurate and transparent figures on the...
