Month: February 2024

Slightly more than half of charities say their fundraising income at least held up over the past year, research has found.  A survey of decision-makers from 202 charities shows 55 per cent of charities maintained or increased their fundraising income over the past year. The 2024 Charity Pulse report, published by the fundraising technology provider

The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into a spiritualist charity because of “disputing trustees” and a failure to file its accounts on time.  The commission said it was investigating the charity behind the London Spiritual Mission, which runs spiritualist services from its venue in Notting Hill, because “disputing trustees have been unwilling or

A Catholic priest who has chaired a sports body for the past 32 years has been appointed its chief executive.  The National Association of Karate and Martial Arts Schools, an independent, not-for-profit organisation based in Kent that governs traditional and modern martial arts, said the Reverend Joe Ellis had become its chief executive on a

A charity committed to ending gender-based violence has gone into liquidation following a “period of operational and financial difficulty”, Third Sector has learned. Against Violence & Abuse, which was registered as a charity in 2010, offers training, resources and consultancy work to improve UK services for survivors of violence against women and girls. The charity

The incoming chief executive of Unlock has withdrawn from the role before taking it up.  The charity, which supports people with criminal convictions, announced on 18 January that Andrew Henley would join it as chief executive on 1 February.  But Unlock said in a statement yesterday that Henley would no longer be taking up the

Unite says it is taking a housing charity to arbitration after it refused to recognise the union in pay negotiations. The union said the Leeds-based housing support charity Gipsil had said it would recognise union members but would not sign an agreement that allows collective bargaining over pay. The union said it would take the

Jo Elvin is to step down as chief executive of Children with Cancer UK after almost two years in the role.  The former editor of Glamour magazine, who joined the charity in April 2022, said she would leave at the end of February “to pursue fresh challenges”.  The charity said Elvin would “remain on hand

Oxfam GB will stop using financial services provided by Barclays because of the bank’s “continued financing of fossil fuels”, the charity has said.  Oxfam, which has used services provided by the bank for about 15 years, said it wrote to Barclays in December to say it would stop using its foreign exchange services with immediate