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Haemochromatosis UK has appointed its interim chief as its permanent leader. Jonathan Jelley took up the long-term post at the healthcare charity, which supports people affected by the genetic condition haemochromatosis, last week. He has been the charity’s interim chief executive since August last year, after its former chief executive, Neil McClements, stepped down. A

Oxfam GB trustees ‘acted in good faith’ in ousting former chief, review finds An independent review into governance processes at Oxfam GB has concluded that trustees “acted in good faith and within their powers”, after the charity’s former chief Halima Begum was forced to stand down at the end of last year. A statement issued

The joint administrators of the social care charity William Blake House have completed the sale of its residential and assisted living services to a fellow charity. Camphill Milton Keynes has assumed responsibility for the services, with all 72 employees transferring as part of the transaction, which was secured for an undisclosed sum. William Blake House,

The Charity Commission’s annual report shows it received a record number of applications for charitable status, while complaints about charities also rose significantly Originally Posted Here

Caroline Mason has shaped the grantmaker into a foundation that is ‘at the forefront of the way that modern funders operate’ by Emily Harle Originally Posted Here

A charity established to strengthen a family of frontline poverty relief charities will close later this year after “successfully fulfilling” its founding mission. Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul Services was established in 2012 to strengthen a family of six charities serving people experiencing poverty, exclusion and disadvantage. Its member charities are: St

A quarter of charities have been directly affected by societal division, including vandalism, protests and changes in the level of support they receive, the Charity Commission has found. The regulator commissioned the polling company BMG to survey a representative sample of almost 3,000 trustees in February in a bid to understand how their charity had

The charity’s board expressed ‘huge regret’ that the events surrounding Halima Begum’s departure ‘played out in public’ Originally Posted Here

A Welsh substance abuse charity has opened a new detox facility after buying the building from another charity. Adferiad moved into the building in Llandudno this week and said the new site would create “70 high-quality jobs”. The building, which has been renamed Parkland Place Llandudno, contains 40 beds that will support people affected by

Income at the veterans charity Help for Heroes rose by more than £4m last year, mainly due to a rise in legacies, latest figures show. The charity recorded an income of £22.8m according to its latest accounts, for the year to the end of September 2025, up from £18.7m in the previous 12 months. Help

A hospital charity has merged into a larger counterpart to coincide with a new NHS trust. Southmead Hospital Charity last week completed its merger into Bristol and Weston Hospitals Charity. The union followed the merger of University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust and North Bristol NHS Trust to create the Bristol NHS Foundation

The more than 30-year-old model for how the National Lottery operates is “showing its age”, the culture secretary has said. The government has opened a 12-week call for evidence on how National Lottery good causes funding should be spent. Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, said nobody had asked if lottery funding was being spent the

A former charity worker who lied about her cancer diagnosis has been jailed for two years after providing false employment references to make financial gain. Claire Alderton, 48 and of Portsmouth, Hampshire, was sentenced at a hearing in Portsmouth Crown Court last month after pleading guilty to creating the fake references. Alderton was offered the

The culture secretary is removing herself and her department from the social media platform X because it “favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”.  Lisa Nandy said the platform was not healthy for democracy and communities and that she would stop using her own account as well as instructing the Department for Culture, Media and

A closing children’s charity has expressed disappointment at “inaccurate and damaging” allegations regarding trustee pay. The Suffolk Parent Carer Forum this week said it was closing with “great sadness”, also citing a loss of funding from the Department for Education. The charity is run by parents, carers and family members who provide support to children

NCVO ‘will create conditions for civil society to thrive’, chief promises Speaking at the online launch of the membership body’s new strategy, Kate Lee said charities were facing an “operating environment that is becoming increasingly hostile to civil society”. She said the strategy, which has been developed following an extensive consultation exercise involving more than

Christian Aid and an agency committed nine breaches of the fundraising code related to a vulnerable individual, including ignoring “no cold calling” signage, an investigation has found. The Fundraising Regulator this week published investigation findings from a 2024 complaint about Christian Aid and the fundraising agency Gather Campaigns. The organisations had taken details from a

The chief executive of the financial education charity Money Ready is to take up the top job at TaxAid. Leon Ward will leave Money Ready in October after three and a half years to join TaxAid, which provides free tax advice to people on low incomes. Money Ready said Ward had led the organisation through

Gift Aid paid to charities rose by 10 per cent last year, official figures show. Estimates published by HM Revenue & Customs show that £1.88bn was paid to 67,650 charities in the year to April 2026, up from £1.71bn in the previous 12 months. It was part of slightly more than £5bn of relief in

Scotland’s membership body for the voluntary sector has set out “important early steps” for the Scottish government to develop a relationship with charities. The Scottish Council for Voluntary Action said the involvement of John Swinney, Scotland’s First Minister, would be critical to delivering positive change for voluntary actions across the country. This follows members of

A grantmaker that closed to applications for three years while it restructured has rebranded. The Tudor Trust closed to applications in April 2022 in what was initially expected to be a one-year hiatus, but the closure was extended as the funder worked towards becoming an anti-racist organisation. It announced last year that it would award

Income at St John Ambulance decreased by £5m, mainly due to the sale of a “prime property” in the previous year, latest figures show. The charity recorded an income of £101.8m according to its latest accounts, for the year to the end of December 2025, down from £106.8m previously. Income from charitable activities fell by

The Charity Commission has disqualified the former sole trustee of two connected charities Originally Posted Here

Philippine Nguyen has been appointed as the next chief executive of Creative Folkestone. Nguyen will join the Kent-based creative arts charity in early September and succeeds Alastair Upton, who will leave in July after 14 years in charge. Upton does not yet have any firm plans for what he will do after leaving the £3m-a-year

Multi-factor authentication is not the “silver bullet” for a charity’s digital security that it used to be, a cybersecurity expert has warned. Speaking during a panel discussion at the Charity Finance Group conference in central London last week, Paul Salter, senior information security consultant at the IT company Smartdesc, said charities needed to find more

An Essex man has been jailed for almost five years after fraudulently claiming more than £1m in Gift Aid in connection with a sports club he set up. Abdul Muttakin Robbani, 54 and of Chelmsford, was this week sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court to four years and eight months in prison after admitting submitting 60

An inquiry into a £200m healthcare charity, CRUK chief urges charities to be ‘more courageous’ in growing their funding and long-awaited ‘soft opt-in’ guidance has been published Originally Posted Here

Charities need to beware of “double harming” staff who report racism, leaders have urged. Sanjiv Lingayah, director of Reframing Race, told delegates at Third Sector’s annual conference that when someone reports racism, the charity often “closes in” and makes the person who raised concerns the “problem”, rather than the racism itself. “This kind of double

The Charity Commission will take no further action after assessing concerns into a claim by the Reform UK leader Nigel Farage that an anti-extremism charity had endorsed Andy Burnham. The regulator last month assessed concerns after the Reform UK leader sent a letter to the commission alleging the Hope Unlimited Charitable Trust breached charity law

It provides a step-by-step approach to support charities to consider whether using soft opt-in is the right fit for them, their supporters and beneficiaries Originally Posted Here