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Ged Devlin retweeted
Peter Alexander Jobson in session with Riley & Coe Tomorrow Wed 20.11.24 from 9pm x Get Some x Love Pete xx
Links to my music: peteralexanderjobson.co.uk/
Not seen a lot of coverage in the sector press on this, but just know @Hargraver would have had an angle! 👇🏻
Naomi Campbell banned from being charity trustee theguardian.com/fashion/2024…
Ged Devlin retweeted
'Halifax isn’t necessarily the most affluent area, and on paper this should just not work. But that’s why economists don’t organise live music events.' Could have been a car park. Thankfully it isn't @ThePieceHall. theguardian.com/uk-news/arti…
Working with partners @KeyFund @TheSocialInvest & @resonanceltd we’ve been working on delivering the £300m fund improving local youth facilities across the country
There is a section on the Youth Investment Fund
Key Fund are proud to have allocated over £50m across 90 sites, predominantly in the North West, Yorkshire, and the Humber
The @KeyFund 2023 / 2024 Impact report is here - stats and figures behind Key Fund’s investments, as well as the people making a difference in their communities
#socinv combinestudio.dev/key-fund/
…. The evidence in this investigation meant that the level of misconduct and/or mismanagement was serious enough to warrant this action.”
The Charity Commission statement;
“As a fair, independent and evidence-led regulator, we only disqualify someone from serving as a trustee or a senior manager in a charity when the evidence gathered means it is proportionate and lawful to do so…..
Captain Tom’s daughter and her husband banned from being charity trustees theguardian.com/uk-news/arti…
Ged Devlin retweeted
Guardian reporting that Captain Tom's daughter has been banned from being a charity trustee.
Good moment to re-up this 3.5 years ago. It was trade press, as so often, which ignored the fawning and saw the failures.
civilsociety.co.uk/news/capt…
Q: Captain Tom Foundation: Why is there no decision on charity?
A: quite normal for complex or high-profile statutory inquiries to take longer than 2 years bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxxx…
(Noted it’s not a direct comparison with direct, retail investment in charities and social enterprises, and why I’d still like to see a successor to SITR, one of the few policy interventions we’ve seen that was solely for the social economy in the past decade)
See also @nicktemple1 ‘s take here 👇🏻
I think it’s a great point on how @TheSocialInvest (and others) have used existing schemes to get cash to social enterprises, such as the government's guarantee scheme
It does seem such an odd rule, the risk-to-capital / asset backed stuff. And as ever, not much guidance so lots of arbitrary decisions
So if I remember correctly Dave ( & I might not be) they’d already removed Community Energy for SITR by the 2016 date, so it was a non-starter?