Corporate gift aid would be worth more than �230m to charities

Corporate gift aid would be worth more than �230m to charities: Gift aid on corporate donations would be worth more than �230m a year to charities, a new report by the research consultancy nfpSynergy shows.

The sum is based on figures from the NCVO’s Civil Society Almanac 2014 showing that �933m was given in corporate donations and gifts in kind in 2011/12. If charities had been able to claim gift aid on this, it would have been worth an extra �233m to the sector, making corporate donations worth a total of �1.7bn.

University fundraising workforce needs to 'at least double' by 2022

University fundraising workforce needs to 'at least double' by 2022: The number of fundraisers working for UK universities and colleges will need to “at least double” if the sector’s ambition to raise �2bn a year by 2022 is to be achieved, according to research by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

HEFCE said its report, An emerging profession: the higher education philanthropy workforce, is the first to take a detailed look at the fundraising workforce in universities and colleges.