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The following news stories are drawn from the www.thirdsector.co.uk website.

A third of Scottish councils claw back surpluses from charity contracts

Thu, 11 Mar 2010

Report by SCVO and Voluntary Action Scotland also finds more than half of local authorities do not offer three-year funding regularly

We can't estimate the cost of removing charity music exemption, says Office of the Third Sector

Thu, 11 Mar 2010

But it says the original estimate was of a worst-case scenario that would never happen

Give us the right figure on removal of music exemption, NCVO tells the Government

Thu, 11 Mar 2010

Charities minister Angela Smith tells Commons £20m figure is out of date

Nick Hurd: Charity Commission spending on recruitment is 'extravagant'

Wed, 10 Mar 2010

Regulator spent £450,000 in 2008/09

Angela Smith: charities are not there to deliver services on the cheap

Tue, 09 Mar 2010

Third sector minister addresses mass meeting organised by Unite

Charity income from wills 'has fallen by 3.4%'

Tue, 09 Mar 2010

New research by Legacy Foresight points to £66m drop in 2009

Increase in VAT rate 'could mean £1bn bill for charities'

Tue, 09 Mar 2010

Warning from Charity Tax Group

Call for a common accounting standard

Tue, 09 Mar 2010

Overseas aid finance charity Mango says NGOs can't show how their money is spent abroad

'Racism' blamed for decline in funding for ethnic minority charities

Tue, 09 Mar 2010

Survey shows that forty-five per cent have had funding cut since recession began