Finance

Oh benevolent chancellor! How grateful for these crumbs we are!

The announcement in the Queen’s Speech that there would be new legislation to claim top-up payments broadly equivalent to gift aid received a fairly mixed response. Writing on the Guardian’s Voluntary Sector Network, NAVCA’s chief executive Joe Irvin called on sector leaders to be more positive and supportive of good news such as this.

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In diamond jubilee year let’s create a network of ‘Elizabeth’ parks

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Never mind Plan B, let’s get Plan A right

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Development banks for the local economy

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One giant step for humankind

Finance

Buying for good

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The big sobriety

Finance

Seeding and scaling

Communities Finance Regeneration

Survival of the fittest

Government is offering more, not less, support for business. But by focusing on businesses that are already winning, its policy is inherently cold-hearted, argues Elliot Forte

It has been almost six months since the government closed the Business Link advisory service. While that is a relatively short time in the history of small business policy, it is time enough to make some early observations.