Sector leaders recognised in King’s Birthday Honours
The chief executives of the Charity Retail Association and the community organisation support charity Locality were among those to receive awards in the King’s Birthday Honours.
Robin Osterley and Tony Armstrong have both been appointed OBE in the list, which includes a host of voluntary sector figures.
Alex Beard, the chief executive of the Royal Ballet and Opera, and Rufus Norris, former chief executive of the National Theatre, were both knighted.
There were CBEs for Peter Dawson, former director of the Prison Reform Trust; Jo Berry, founder of Building Bridges for Peace; and Nick Massey, chief executive of the community foundation Forever Manchester.
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Voluntary sector’s workplace culture is ‘surviving, not thriving’, Mind chief warns
Speaking at the Third Sector Conference in London, Sarah Hughes told delegates that the sector was facing an “era of disgruntlement”, with challenges such as poor trust, a failure of communication between leaders and the workforce and no shared definition of equity.
She said that although many charities invested in their anti-racism and equity journeys in 2020, no organisation “really understood what properly making a commitment of that nature meant”.
She said: “We underestimated the depth of repair that was required. I think all of us grossly underestimated what it meant to properly have those conversations.”
She added that while some charities have continued this journey, including Mind, it is “not an easy path to stay on”.
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£200m charity launches first fundraising appeal in more than a century
St Andrew’s Healthcare, which was founded in 1838, has launched its For Hope in Every Life campaign in a bid to fund new services and research.
The appeal is the charity’s first fundraising appeal for more than a 100 years and the charity said it was the UK’s first fundraising appeal designed to transform the lives of people with complex mental-health needs at scale.
The charity had an income of £217.8m in the year to the end of March last year but only £120,000 of this came from donations and legacies, its accounts show.