Month: April 2024

The Charity Commission has concluded inquiries into two charities where trustees “were responsible for mismanagement” by not submitting annual reports on time. The Islamic Education Centre and Mosque, based in Sunderland, and the Children Care Centre in London were subject to statutory inquiries in February and June 2022 respectively. The IECM submitted its accounts late
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Penny Wilson has announced she is stepping down as chief executive of Getting on Board. The charity, which supports people from underrepresented backgrounds to become trustees, initially appointed Wilson as its operations director in 2017. She was promoted to co-chief executive in 2017 and became the sole chief the following year. Wilson will leave the
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A record more than 38,000 wills included gifts to charity last year, pushing the total donated to a new annual high.  The legacy notification company Smee & Ford said there were 38,178 charitable estates recorded in Engand and Wales in 2023, the highest number since it started tracking sector data in 2012.  The company said
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Two women have been jailed for defrauding and laundering more than £634,000 from estates of the deceased, including money intended for charities. Laurna Porter, 69, and Julie Atkins, 68, both of Tamworth, were sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court yesterday to four years and 30 months in prison respectively.  Porter admitted fraud by abuse of position
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The palliative care charity Sue Ryder has appointed James Sanderson, a current national director for NHS England, as its new chief executive. Sanderson, who has been the national director of community health services, personalised care and palliative and end-of-life care for NHS England since 2015, will take up the reins at the charity in August. 
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The number of employees donating to charity through payroll giving has declined by 13 per cent since 2020, new research has found. The Charities Aid Foundation has warned that charities are “missing out on millions” through payroll giving, as its new research shows that the number of employees donating through the scheme and the total
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A hospice charity is “under threat and in urgent need of a lifeline” due to a £1m hole in its finances, its chief executive has warned. Prospect Hospice, which is based in Wroughton, Wiltshire, said it costs £8.5m a year to run the charity. The charity said it had reduced the number of beds in
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Hassun El-Zafar has been appointed director of the educational charity Edinburgh Science, succeeding its current chief who has led the charity for nearly 30 years. El-Zafar is currently the senior producer for public programmes at the science charity the Royal Institution of Great Britain. He is also a non-executive director for the Union of Justice,
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Norfolk’s vast sandy beaches are its chief draw for visitors: even on the busiest summer day there is always space for games, kite-flying or a family picnic in the dunes. Boating, crabbing, digging for cockles and wading in creeks provides hours of entertainment for all. But there’s much more to Norfolk’s coast than its beaches.
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Every day of the week, 24-hours a day, there’s always something going on in the city that never sleeps. From big-name museums to meander through, architectural wonders to gawk at, galleries to see, and neighbourhoods to explore, you’d have to live seven lives to experience all the best things to do in New York. Below
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Copenhagen always ranks highly in surveys of the world’s best cities, and little wonder. Size certainly helps: it’s big enough to have world-class museums, restaurants and attractions; small enough to make them easily accessible. Then there’s its unerring ability to blend quaint and cool: one minute you’re in Indre By or Christianshavn, strolling along a
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Some things are non-negotiable – first-timers really shouldn’t leave Copenhagen without at least once strolling along the waterfront at Nyhavn or succumbing to the twinkly charms of Tivoli amusement park. But there are plenty of other experiences to keep you happily busy too, from picnicking on board a little boat as you float through the city’s
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Summer might be the time we all shop for shades, shorts and sunscreen, but it’s also the perfect time to grab a new scent. We’re not just saying that to make you buy another bottle of the smelly stuff. There are some very good reasons for switching to a different, lighter cologne for men as
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Completed college? Your bank account has taken one hell of a beating and so has your liver, but you’ve made it to graduation—and for tha, you should be really proud. But before you sign-off from your studies and start earning some proper coin, there’s just one more blowout to complete before you embark on a
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