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Ayrshire Cancer Support has appointed Karen McIntyre as its next chief executive following the retirement of its previous boss. McIntyre joins the Scottish charity from Bridges Programmes, a Glasgow-based charity that supports refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to improve their employability. She succeeds Sandra McCall, who is retiring later this year after 15 years with
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Antibiotic Research UK has changed its name to AMR Action UK, as part of a rebrand designed to amplify its voice and engage a wider audience. The charity, which supports patients with drug resistant infections, has updated its logo and website to reflect the name change. The new logo features a graphic of three silhouettes
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The employment and training charity Home to Work has changed its name to Goodlives to better reflect the growing number of services it offers, the charity said. Goodlives supports service users in Copeland, Cumbria, with training opportunities to aid their transitions from unemployment to being work ready. The charity offers free courses in woodwork, upcycling,
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Revealed: The charities most frequently mentioned by MPs on X The Royal British Legion was the charity most frequently mentioned by MPs on the social media platform X over the past year, new research showed. The data, which was collected by the political monitoring consultancy PoliMonitor and covers the period from 4 July 2024 to
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The Charity Commission has published updates to its complaints procedures to make the processes clearer to customers, the regulator has said. The commission has also updated its customer engagement policy to make it clearer what it expects from customers and how the regulator handles unacceptable behaviour. As part of the updates to its complaints procedure,
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Antibiotic Research UK has changed its name to AMR Action UK, as part of a rebrand designed to amplify its voice and engage a wider audience. The charity, which supports patients with drug resistant infections, has updated its logo and website to reflect the name change. The new logo features a graphic of three silhouettes
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The charity tribunal has upheld the Charity Commission’s decision not to register a community interest company as a charity due to concerns about its purposes. The appeal was filed to the First-Tier tribunal by Babatunde Ojo on behalf of the Green Management Solutions Foundation in June 2024, following the regulator’s refusal to register the organisation
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Case opened after complaint claims charity plots secret head office sale The Charity Commission has opened a compliance case into the international aid charity Penny Appeal after concerns were raised about alleged governance and financial mismanagement. A whistleblowing complaint, seen by Third Sector, alleges the charity is looking to make all staff at its Wakefield
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More than 60 Marie Curie staff are at risk of redundancy following the permanent closure of a hospice inpatient unit due to “significant financial deficits”. The end-of-life charity’s 26-bed unit in Woolton, Liverpool, initially stopped taking admissions in July 2024 because of “staffing challenges”, the charity said. A spokesperson for Marie Curie North West said
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Local authorities have been urged to avoid damaging the “microbiome” of the voluntary sector by valuing the smallest organisations and ensuring they are not excluded from decision-making. The local infrastructure body Navca and the University of Exeter conducted a joint workshop last month which highlighted the need to further support the microbiome, or the group
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