Finance

100 years of pioneering philanthropy

In the centenary year of the Carnegie UK Trust, chief executive Martyn Evans looks back over its 100 years of innovative social change and argues for the need for greater partnerships to tackle today’s social issues.

Q. Andrew Carnegie’s purpose in establishing the Trust in 1913 was ‘the improvement of the wellbeing of the masses of the people of Great Britain and Ireland’. How has the trust stuck to and developed this purpose in the last 100 years?

Communities Finance Good Local Economics

Lessons from Holland: Helping citizens with debt management pays off

Communities Finance Good Local Economics Housing Local Government

Roads or housing? Which is your priority?

Communities Economic Development Finance Local Government

10 Ideas for Change: Local growth and resilience

Communities Finance Good Local Economics Regeneration

Making community economic development mainstream

Communities Finance Good Local Economics Regeneration

Nurturing strong communities, the ABCD way

Communities Finance Good Local Economics Regeneration

A new framework for local involvement

Communities Finance Good Local Economics

The growth of enterprising community libraries

Communities Finance

£475m National Fund dispute grows

The Attorney General has announced that he will seek to close down the National Fund, one of the richest charities in the UK, and spend its £475m assets on paying off the national debt.

The National Fund was set up with £500,000 in 1928, by an anonymous donor – believed to be Stanley Baldwin, who would later become Prime Minister – with the intention of paying off the national debt following the First World War.