We’ve heard a lot over the past few weeks about the proposal to limit tax relief for major donations to charities.  That is a big topic at this week’s Giving Summit in Whitehall:

Despite promises by the UK coalition government of a new Big Society, unleashing the potential of charities and volunteers, many charities in the UK have recoiled in horror from recent budget proposals that they deem harmful to their fundraising operations.

. . . The summit meeting, attended by the Institute of Fundraising and other groups, has been discussing a range of issues affecting charities, including the tax relief cap.

You can read more here.

Editorialists at The Guardian revisit the 16 social entrepreneurs who were part of the Big Society launch to ask them what they think of the program two years later.  You can read their comments then and now here.