Hello and welcome to today's Guardian Voluntary Sector Network daily digest, where we bring you the latest comment, news, views and analysis from the sector.
• On the network today, Zoe Amar discusses five characteristics of the top 30 charity chief executives on social media. She advocates being approachable and talking to stakeholders as some of the things charity chiefs can do in order to engage with their audience via social media.
• Continuing the topic of yesterday's Q&A on charities and social investment, the Big Lottery Fund's new chief, Dawn Austwick, has argued charities must not fear social investment. Austwick, told ACEVO's annual conference yesterday that charities were in a unique position to capitalise on the more altruistic section within the social investment market.
• Meanwhile, the Charity Commission has told Silverdale Village Institute in Lancashire to allow a representative of a local youth group onto its board as its governing document dictates. A spokeswoman for the regulator said: "We have written to the trustees of the institute to emphasise their duty to abide by the governing document of the charity, which outlines the right of the youth group to appoint a representative to the trustee board."
• Finally, in recent news, SCVO have published a roundup of their 70th AGM at the John McIntyre Centre, Edinburgh. To find out the full news from the event, visit their website.
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