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The Charity Service is a UK-based grant-making charity and Donor Advised Fund Sponsor with decades of experience in the charitable sector. We support donors to understand and achieve their philanthropic goals. We also run our successful Greater Manchester Grants Programme which provides over £100,000 worth of funding to charities based in the Greater Manchester region. …

Trustee Q&A with David Newns

In the fourth of a series of Trustee Q&A blogs, we speak to David Newns, who joined the board of The Charity Service in 2022. Can you tell us about your background and professional career? I graduated in Business and Administration from Bradford University in 1969. I then worked in industry all my salaried life, …

Anonymous Giving Through a Donor Advised Fund

This blog post is about anonymous giving in particular the reasons donors might want to remain anonymous, how a Donor Advised Fund (DAF) can help and how we balance that with our values of transparency, trust and openness. What is a Donor Advised Fund (DAF)? A DAF is a philanthropic fund held by a registered …

Open and Trusting Philanthropy

Philanthropy is about power as well as money. Who makes the decisions about where funding can have the most impact? In a conventional funding model, funders can often tightly restrict the areas they want to fund, meaning that charities are less able to be responsive to their beneficiaries and use their knowledge and experience to …

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