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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

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

A total of 57 grants will be awarded to frontline delivery charities over the next two to three years Originally Posted Here

The Charity Commission has ordered a Muslim charity that shared a video supporting Hamas to take action on its social media use after finding misconduct and/or mismanagement by the charity’s trustees. The Al-Manar Centre Trust runs a mosque in Cardiff and in January 2024 the regulator became aware of a video shared on the charity’s

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,

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

The National Trust is could cut about 550 jobs in a bid to save £26m following the rise in employer National Insurance contributions. The conservation charity also cited the National Living Wage rise which, alongside the employer NIC increase introduced in April, had added more than £10m to the National Trust’s annual wage bill. The

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,

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

The Charity Commission received a record more than 9,800 applications for charitable applications, according to its latest annual report. The regulator received 9,836 applications in the year to the end of March 2025, a 9 per cent increase from the 9,008 received in the previous year. More than 5,000 organisations were registered as charities with

The Charity Commission has a convening role to play in re-energising philanthropy, its chief executive has said. Speaking on a panel at the Giving and Impact Summit in London yesterday, David Holdsworth said the commission existed not just to enforce, but to enable. He said the commission held convening power and must “act as the

The union Unite, which conducted the research, says the government must take steps to stamp out sexual harassment in the workplace Originally Posted Here

Public trust in charities has remained “consistently high” over the past year, new research shows.  The Charity Commission has today published the findings from its annual public survey of more than 4,000 people, which was carried out in January by BMG Research.  The study found that when people were asked to rate their trust in

The Telegraph newspaper reported the property was gifted with the condition that it would be used in perpetuity as a retirement home but the charity says this is not the case by Dami Adewale Originally Posted Here

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

The move offers exciting possibilities for cross-sector partnerships, increased participation and community-led artistic co-creation, the charities say Originally Posted Here

The retailer Aldi has extended its partnership with the Teenage Cancer Trust for four years and increased its fundraising target to £20m. Aldi UK has raised more than £12m for the charity since the partnership began in 2017 with an initial target of £15m by 2027.  But the retailer, which announced it had passed £11m

The Charity Commission also disqualified its former chair, saying an ‘inflammatory’ sermon showed he ‘lacked the good judgement expected of a trustee’ by Dami Adewale Originally Posted Here

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

A carers support charity is set to close after it decided not to bid for a council contract to provide services in the region, the charity has announced. Swindon Carers Centre will begin a phased wind-down in the coming months and officially close at the end of December after 28 years of supporting carers. The

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 headquarters redundant, sell its head office and move its operations to

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

Liverpool’s annual Pride festival and March in Pride events are set to go ahead after being saved by an LGBTQ+ charity. The LCR Pride Foundation, which originally organised the events, announced last month they would be cancelled this year due to “substantial financial and organisational challenges”. But the events will now proceed after Sahir House,

The Fundraising Regulator has urged charities to prepare for when the “soft opt-in” is introduced for electronic marketing.  The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 received royal assent last month and the measures are expected to be introduced in the coming months.  The legislation will enable charities to send direct marketing messages via email, text

St John Ambulance reduced its workforce by more than 300 as it cut staff costs by more than £12m last year, latest accounts show. The first aid charity’s total headcount dropped from 1,726 in 2023 to 1,418 last year, according to its accounts for the year to the end of December 2024. St John Ambulance

The charity says its VAT declaration was rejected; British Gas says it is working with the organisation to resolve the matter by Dami Adewale Originally Posted Here

Saskia Konynenburg will take up the role after Sarah Elliott leaves at the end of July Originally Posted Here

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

Women’s Aid to close live chat service and cut jobs in bid to save £1m | Third Sector

The venture philanthropy fund The Fore will raise its maximum unrestricted grant funding by 50 per cent from autumn this year. The increase will raise its maximum amount of unrestricted grant funding from £30,000 to £45,000 for charities with an annual turnover of less than £500,000. The uplifted funding, which can be spread over one to