Charity

Charities will be able to partner with businesses to get free support during the coronavirus pandemic. The National Business Response Network has been launched by Business in the Community, a charity set up by Prince Charles to champion responsible business. The network will seek to identify community needs during the Covid-19 pandemic and match them

The National Lottery Heritage Fund has unveiled a £50m emergency fund to support heritage projects in crisis as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The funder’s past and current grantees, or those still under contract from previous grants, can apply for grants of between £3,000 and £50,000. Latest headlines A survey by the NLHF of

The National Trust will furlough about 11,200 staff because of the coronavirus pandemic. The charity said in a statement that 80 per cent of its approximately 14,000 staff would be furloughed because of a loss of revenue caused by the charity’s closure of its attractions amid the Covid-19 crisis. The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme enables

St John Ambulance will need to start borrowing money from August if the coronavirus pandemic continues into the summer, the charity’s chief executive has told MPs. Martin Houghton-Brown told a virtual meeting of the Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee yesterday that the charity had sufficient reserves to last until August, but would need

The supermarket chain Morrisons has pledged to donate £10m worth of stock to local food banks by the end of July. The supermarket said it planned to help restock food banks by producing extra food at its food-making sites, which will run for an extra hour each day to help meet the additional demand. It

(New York, NY — April 1, 2020) Today, CARE and the International Rescue Committee published a Rapid Gender Assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic based on secondary data analysis undertaken between 12-20 March, 2020. The analysis was undertaken to explore the current and potential gendered dimensions of COVID-19 and highlights the ways in which women, girls

Legacy income could fall by up to 9 per cent this year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the charity consortium Legacy Foresight. Legacy Foresight’s updated legacy market forecasts estimate a likely fall of between 3 and 9 per cent over the next year, although it still expects legacy income to grow

The government has failed to work sufficiently closely with the charity sector on a coronavirus rescue package and is treating the ongoing financial crisis in the sector as an “academic exercise”, the chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations has told MPs. Speaking in a virtual meeting of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Catalyst Housing has awarded Oxford charity Leys Community Development Initiative (Leys CDI) £20,000 in anchor match funding to help future proof the vital facility. The Blackbird Leys-based charity is trying to raise £73,000 to tackle poverty, deprivation and social isolation in the local community, and the demand for these essential services has grown as the

The Charities Aid Foundation has launched an emergency fund worth at least £5m that will give grants to small charities affected by the coronavirus pandemic.  CAF said the new fund would offer grants of up to £10,000 to groups including charities and social enterprises with incomes of less than £1m.  It said in a statement

Barnardo’s is set to furlough as many as 3,000 of its 8,000-strong workforce to help the charity survive the coronavirus pandemic, its chief executive has said. Speaking on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning, Javed Khan said the children’s charity was doing so after losing £8m of its £25m monthly income overnight because

Charities in Scotland that are in financial difficulty as a result of the coronavirus pandemic are being invited to apply for a share of a £20m emergency fund. The Third Sector Resilience Fund, delivered by the social enterprise agency Firstport, Social Investment Scotland and the Corra Foundation, will provide grants of between £5,000 and £100,000

More than 560,000 people have signed up to be NHS volunteers during the coronavirus pandemic. The government had targeted the recruitment of 300,000 volunteers to help the NHS cope with the pandemic, but has already almost doubled its target, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, said on Twitter. This included 400,000 people signing up to volunteer

Big Society Capital is to launch a £100m emergency loan fund to help charities deal with cash-flow problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic. BSC said its Emergency Liquidity Facility would allow trading charities and social enterprises to borrow money for working capital or to help with cash flow. Further details about the scheme will be

A local politician has raised fears that small charities will be excluded from the government’s £10,000 small business grants scheme, aimed at supporting organisations through the coronavirus outbreak. The government had announced that small businesses would be eligible for grant funding of £10,000 to help them weather the Covid-19 pandemic. But a letter from Richard

(New York March 26, 2020) – CARE’s analysis of INFORM Global Risk Index data has found that the world’s ‘highest risk’ countries have three times higher exposure to epidemics, such as COVID-19, but also have a six times higher risk in terms of their access to healthcare compared to the world’s lowest risk countries. Somalia, Central African

Two former party leaders and another two former charity ministers have written an open letter calling for emergency funding to help the charity sector survive the coronavirus crisis. In a letter published in The Daily Telegraph newspaper, Ed Miliband, a former leader of the Labour Party who was also Minister for the Third Sector between

The Charity Finance Group and the Small Charities Coalition have called on the government to rethink its small business grant fund after it emerged that small charities would not be eligible. The government had announced that small businesses would be eligible for grant funding of £10,000 to help them weather the Covid-19 pandemic. But only businesses that

The emergency appeal to raise funds for charities affected by the coronavirus pandemic has raised more than £11m in its first week. The National Emergencies Trust, which launched the appeal last Wednesday evening, said it had begun distributing the first tranche of funds to local charities through community foundations across the UK. The funds include

Oxfam GB is to furlough about two-thirds of its 2,100-strong UK workforce because of the coronavirus pandemic. The charity said today that the affected staff, most of whom work in its trading arm, would be sent home until at least 1 June. Last weekend, Oxfam closed all of its UK stores, which bring in about

An appeal for volunteers to support the NHS during the coronavirus outbreak that was launched yesterday evening has reached 170,000 sign-ups overnight. Matt Hancock, the health secretary, last night announced the move to recruit 250,000 volunteers to help the NHS. The volunteers are being asked to help the NHS support the 1.5 million people who

The Prime Minister has said the government is considering a “package of measures” to support the voluntary sector as it faces potentially catastrophic falls in income because of the coronavirus outbreak. Major voluntary sector bodies have been increasing the pressure on the government in recent days to provide urgent financial aid to the sector in

Charity leaders have increased the pressure on the government to take immediate action to support charities that are faced with losing billions of pounds of income over the coming weeks because of the coronavirus outbreak.  On Friday, a group of major charity umbrella bodies launched the #EveryDayCounts campaign, which is calling on Rishi Sunak, the

Press Release Newbury, Berkshire, 24th March 2020 – Local charity Greenham Trust will match any donations made by the public and local businesses via its online appeal up to a huge sum of £100,000! This will generate a fund of £200,000 to be distributed through local charitable and voluntary organisations that are offering support to

Tributes have been paid to Danielle Atkinson, head of individual giving at Plan International UK, who died in the early hours of yesterday morning.  Fundraisers and colleagues described Atkinson, who was 46, as “funny, feisty and fabulous”, “a brilliant fundraiser” and a “lovely person”. Twitter users have been paying tribute to her using the hashtag

(Amman, March 24, 2020) — As the first case of coronavirus is confirmed in Syria, CARE is deeply concerned about the health and safety of over three million people in Northwest Syria, over half of whom are internally displaced and live in crowded camps. With the inability to test for the virus, many more cases in

A group of more than 100 MPs and peers from a number of parties has called on the government to provide urgent funds for the voluntary sector in the face of an estimated loss of more than £4bn of income over the next few weeks. The National Council for Voluntary Organisations said on Friday that

The supermarket Asda has donated £5m to the food charities FareShare and the Trussell Trust to help meet demand for basic supplies during the coronavirus pandemic. The donation will help both charities deal with an expected significant increase in demand in the weeks ahead caused by the ramifications of the spread of Covid-19, the supermarket

As is so often the way in moments of crisis, the charity sector is on the front line of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on everyday life in the UK. According to Jane Ide, chief executive of the infrastructure umbrella body Navca, the impact could prove fatal for many civil society organisations.

The National Citizen Service Trust narrowly missed its participation targets, the latest accounts show. The trust’s accounts for 2018/19, which were published yesterday, show that 99,674 government-funded participants took part in NCS programmes in the 2018 calendar year, against a target of 100,000. The total number of summer programme participants was 85,938, against a target