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On July 24th 2007, a letter by Diana Leat on philanthropy and giving was published by the Financial Times.  Read the full article here.

The gifts of Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Paul Omidiyar,  and the UK’s own Tom Hunter, among others, make head line news across the world; and politicians of all persuasions, and throughout the world, are philanthropists' new best friends. More money going to support good causes and the most disadvantaged in societies globally is indeed good news – but there is more, and less, to achieving sustainable social change than money.

The Carnegie UK Trust's Annual Report is now available to download.  The report focuses on the four key areas of our work:

• enhancing the research and development capacities of foundations, to become more effective in supporting progressive social change.
• strengthening the voice of young people in decision making.
• helping rural communities to become more sustainable, with a stronger voice in determining change.
• analysing the role of civil society and building a strong participative and representative democracy.

The incoming Minister of the Third Sector speaks at the Inquiry/NCVO event. Nick Cater of Third Sector online writes:

Charities and campaigners are key partners in government plans to transform society and its citizens, according to Phil Hope, the incoming third sector minister.

Hope admitted he was updating his “slightly 1990s view of the sector” to incorporate its decade of expansion under Labour and declared his confidence in its future. He also suggested business could be a far greater funder of charities.

“You can go, and are going, where government cannot go,” Hope told the NCVO and Carnegie UK Third Sector Foresight conference on the future of civil society in London yesterday, his first official engagement in his new post. “We cannot do what we want to do in transforming lives without partnership with the sector. Social change and putting civil society at the heart of government is what we are all about.”

Dunfermline’s Double Literary Celebration 

Charlie McConnell, Chief Executive of the Carnegie UK Trust, today unveiled details of the stunning international line up of authors and wide range of activities making up the Carnegie Children’s Book Festival, to be staged in Dunfermline from 25 – 26 August 2007.