The Big Hire: Julie Bentley
The new chief executive of Action for Children will start her new job on 1 August
Record number of groups given the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service
The 250 voluntary groups include 27 from Greater Manchester
CCNI appoints interim manager to Northern Ireland youth charity
The regulator has opened a statutory inquiry into Rehabilitate Youth Ireland because of concerns about its finances and governance
Blockchain: what charities really need to know
Don't have a clue about digital public ledgers? Then read on (subscriber only)
Charities can bid for share of £200k to recruit interns
The Jack Petchey Foundation will choose 10 charities, each of which will get about £20k to cover the cost of one-year internships at living-wage levels
Digital inclusion is failing older people, report says
Published by the Centre for Ageing Better, it says people over 55 make up 94 per cent of non-users of the internet, but digital-inclusion approaches tend not to cater for them
Charities are 'behind the curve' on blockchain, report warns
The paper, from Charity Futures, says the sector should link up with technologists in a taskforce to investigate the potential of the technology behind bitcoin
Favour bids by charities that pay a living wage, commissioners told
The paper from the Living Wage Foundation also says grant-makers should champion fair pay by ensuring funded projects pay a living wage
Leaflets promoting Fundraising Preference Service arrive in GP surgeries
Seventy-six thousand of the awareness-raising leaflets, mainly aimed at older people, have been distributed by the Fundraising Regulator
Focus on understanding donors' lives rather than sending them information, legacy fundraisers told
The advice comes from a paper summarising the findings of 160 research papers on how and why donors leave gifts to charity in their wills