Due to Falling Donations from the UK Population, Charities are Increasingly Targeting the Commercial Sector to Maintain the Levels of Funding they Need.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c24667) has announced the addition of Charity Funding Market Assessment 2005 to their offering. In 2005, two major pieces of legislation that will radically alter the way charities are administered are to come into effect. The first is the Charities Bill, the report stage of which is provisionally scheduled for 12th October 2005, and the second is the Community Interest Company (CIC CIC circulating immune complexes. CIC Circulating immune complexes. See Immune complexes. ) Regulations 2005. The main objective of the Charities Bill is to build public confidence in charity giving by tightening regulation. This Bill affects England and Wales England and Wales are both constituent countries of the United Kingdom, that together share a single legal system: English law. Legislatively, England and Wales are treated as a single unit (see State (law)) for the conflict of laws. , as charity law is devolved in Scotland and Northern Ireland Northern Ireland: see Ireland, Northern. Northern Ireland Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland occupying the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland. Area: 5,461 sq mi (14,144 sq km). Population (2001): 1,685,267. . Scotland introduced its own Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Bill in November 2004. The definition of a charitable organisation is also changing, with a responsibility to show interests in public benefit, the definition of which is being considerably widened. However, a further development in organisations serving the community is the creation of a new legal entity --the CIC. From July 2005, new companies may register as CICs with Companies House in the usual business forms -- as a private company, limited either by shares or by guarantee, or as a public limited company (PLC) but with restrictions on the way funds may be distributed. While not enjoying the same kind of tax breaks as charities, regulation of CICs is intended to be lighter than that of charities. However, the restrictions include capped dividends to shareholders and `asset locks', which ensure that profits are distributed not to members but rather to the community. Both of these measures -- along with the `make poverty history' emphasis taken by the Prime Minister to the G8 Summit in July 2005 -- indicate that the current Government places a great deal of importance on creating strong frameworks for giving for both governments and individuals. However, research commissioned exclusively for this report shows that the percentage of the population making donations to charity has dropped considerably. In 2003, 80% of the adult population had given to charity in the previous 12 months. In 2005, this figure had dropped to 66%. Furthermore, this figure could be much lower if those giving only to the tsunami appeal were discounted. There are also fewer responding to television appeals: just 22% of respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. agreed that they usually make a donation in response to a television appeal in 2005, compared with almost half in 2003. Charities, especially charity umbrella organisations such as Charities Aid Foundation The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) is a registered UK charity. Its Head Office is located at West Malling, Kent. Its role is to provide services and assistance to UK and international charities and their donors, as well as to promote donation to charity generally. (CAF CAF - constant applicative form ), are doing all that they can to make giving as easy as possible for donors and to provide as much reassurance REASSURANCE. When an insurer is desirous of lessening his liability, he may procure some other insurer to insure him from loss, for the insurance he has made this is called reassurance. that their donations are being spent wisely. The research shows, however, that these are not particular issues for donors -- they know how to give. This research supports the sector's own findings, that is to say charities are increasingly targeting the commercial sector to maintain the levels of funding they need, as well as working more closely with government, especially those charities working in the social services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales sector. This is the future for the industry. Incomes overall have shown yearly increases to the point where the sector is now worth almost GBP GBP In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the British Pound. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 37.1bn (June 2005). Company profiles: - Actionaid - Beatbullying Ltd - Breakthrough Breast Cancer Breakthrough Breast Cancer is the United Kingdom's leading breast cancer charity committed to fighting breast cancer through research, campaigning and education. Its essence comes from the thousands of people who are committed to a single vision - - Charities Aid Foundation - The Fairtrade Foundation - The Vodafone Group Foundation For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c24667 |
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