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BIG allocates £100m to youth unemployment projects
The Big Lottery Fund is to spend £100m on projects involving charities, businesses and the public sector that aim to help young people that have been out of work for at least a year.
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Community interaction should be one of our five-a-day, says ResPublica
Meetings of community groups or neighbourhood gatherings should be treated as one of our 'five-a-day', according to a new report from think tank ResPublica that will be launched today by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles.
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Government forms international aid agreement with faith groups
The government and the Church of England have set out the principles for future collaboration between the Department for International Development and faith groups working internationally towards development.
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National Trust launches appeal for White Cliffs
The National Trust has launched an appeal to raise £1.2m to protect a famous stretch of Kentish coastline, the White Cliffs of Dover.
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Big Issue Invest and TSELF merge
Big Issue Invest and TSELF have today announced they are joining forces to create one of the UK's largest social investment intermediaries - freeing up £8m of investment funds.
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Commission to consult on public benefit guidance
The Charity Commission has today launched a three-month consultation on its revised public benefit guidance for charities, including a new online platform that features a blog for responses.
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Charity Legal Survey 2012
In our inaugural legal survey, conducted for Charity Finance magazine, Diane Sim highlights the frontrunners in the charity legal market.
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"This is achievable but we should be careful when saying that Africa could graduate from external support in the years to come... Africa may fulfill the MDG goals and other internationally-agreed targets for development but this does not indicate that the continent is self-sufficient in a sustainable way... Africa will never graduate from food support soon unless it has the chance to have transformed governance."
Satenaw comments on African countries could graduate from external assistance soon, says One
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