{"id":93,"date":"2006-12-30T20:43:35","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T20:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2006-12-30T20:43:35","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T20:43:35","slug":"admin-costs-are-dead-apparently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Admin costs are dead&#8221;, apparently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a title=\"Intelligent Giving blog\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/intelligentgiving.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/admin-costs-rip.html\">Intelligent Giving<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ADMIN COSTS ARE DEAD. With the new accounting system enforced by the Charity Commission (&#8220;SORP 2005&#8221;), which nearly all charities are now observing, it is now impossible to work them out &#8211; and we will have to drop them from our site in the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>The change represents an over-reaction (presumably an uncontested one) by the voluntary sector&#8217;s lobbyists. Clearly the public wasn&#8217;t consulted about the new SORP; but the public wants at least *some* clue of how much is spent on support costs. Now it won&#8217;t have anything to go on at all.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pyrrhic victory and a big shame: it won&#8217;t increase the public&#8217;s confidence in charities; it will just make people more suspicious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t really got anything to add to this &#8211; I&#8217;m still in holiday-mode so haven&#8217;t looked into this any further. I&#8217;ll try and find out more in the New Year, but thought it was interesting enough to post now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Intelligent Giving: ADMIN COSTS ARE DEAD. With the new accounting system enforced by the Charity Commission (&#8220;SORP 2005&#8221;), which nearly all charities are now observing, it is now impossible to work them out &#8211; and we will have to drop them from our site in the New Year. The change represents an over-reaction (presumably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}