The Giving White Paper sets out three core strands of activity where the Government want to work with partners to make giving as easy as possible, make giving as compelling as possible and give better support to those that provide and manage opportunities to give – be they charities, community groups or others.  

Measures include:
- £30m to support infrastructure
- moves to enable cashpoint donations
- a 'giving summit' in the autumn aimed at generating new fundraising ideas
- a £10m Social Action Fund to support new models that incentivise people to give, such as ‘complementary currencies’ that offer people credit for volunteering.
- a year-long campaign to promote payroll giving- 'challenge prizes’, which will reward schemes that encourage volunteering using mobile phones. 

The paper says government ministers will also give one day a year to volunteer at a charity or voluntary group of their choice. 

Banks and cashpoint providers have unanimously agreed to work together to enable donations to be made at ATMs by 2012, the paper says. 

The government will invest £700,000 through the Social Action Fund in Philanthropy UK, which offers advice on effective giving to aspiring philanthropists. It is run by the Association of Charitable Foundations, the paper says.

A further £1m will be given to the youth charity YouthNet to support its Do it website, which links people to volunteering opportunities. 

The paper says the government will also offer space on government-run websites, starting with Directgov, to promote online giving services from today. 

The government is also considering how online peer review systems such as the holiday review website TripAdvisor could be used to help volunteers "build up personal reputations and testimonials to create ‘giving CVs’… and may prove more powerful and much less bureaucratic than conventional checks and balances", it says. 

The £30m local infrastructure fund, which will be delivered by the Big Lottery Fund, will support the development of "more efficient local hubs to offer better-integrated support services for front-line civil society organisations", the paper says. "The types of activity supported will include: developing new services and redesigning existing ones; establishing new partnerships, alliances, mergers and/or shared back-office provision; staff training for new roles; and purchasing expert advice and support,". 

To download a copy visit the Cabinet Office Website: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/giving-white-paper