Tag: Charity Commission

The Charity Commission is consulting with charities, sector organisations and the public to develop new guidance for charities when they use social media. The regulator is seeking views on its new draft guidance, which is intended to help trustees use social media appropriately and with confidence. The new resource is designed to help trustees understand their responsibilities and manage the risks; it encourages them to adopt a social media policy for their charity and outlines what can be included in the policy. It also aims to help trustees understand what…

The Charity Commission should use its “soft power”, alongside the sector’s infrastructure bodies, to help improve the grant-making process for charities and funders, according to a major new report. New research for the Law Family Commission on Civil Society, carried out by Pro Bono Economics, found that the process by which charitable trusts and foundations award grants in the UK was beset by “short-termism”, “sub-optimal processes” and the “reproduction of wider social inequalities”. The report recognises the rich diversity of the grant-making community, from foundations with multimillion pound endowments, to…