Charity

An environmental charity will receive a £135,000 funding boost under a river ‘pollution penalty’ imposed on two house-building companies. The sanction has been announced by the Environment Agency (EA) following an investigation into repeated pollution of Pitty Beck, near Bradford. Keepmoat Homes Ltd, a company that specialises in building residential housing and owns the site
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A £10m fund for charities that deliver suicide prevention services has been made available by the government. The latest round of funding from the Suicide Prevention Grant Fund is now open for applications from charities that work in England. The scheme first ran from 2021 to 2022 and led to the investment of £5.4m in
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An Islamic charity has said it “rejects violent extremism and hate crime” after its government funding was paused over accusations of homophobia and misogyny. The Green Lane Mosque and Community Centre (GLMCC) in Birmingham was awarded a grant of £2.2m from the Youth Investment Fund at the beginning of August. But on Friday, the Department
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A leading outdoor education charity has revealed its next chief executive. The Ernest Cook Trust has announced that Ed Ikin will take up the top job later this year.  Ikin is currently the director of Wakehurst, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s wild botanic garden in Sussex, and co-founded Kew’s Nature Unlocked programme, which researches the
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The British Museum’s director, Hartwig Fischer, said today that he would step down from his role over the theft of multiple precious items from the museum’s collection. In a statement, Fischer described his presence at the museum as “a distraction”, a little over a week after multiple thefts reported to management in 2021 were made
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The chief executive of Acevo has today accused the Home Secretary of using the Charity Commission’s statutory inquiry into Care4Calais to make “an irrelevant and politically motivated point about charitable purpose”. Following the publication of the regulator’s statutory inquiry findings into the refugee charity yesterday, Suella Braverman told The Telegraph newspaper that some charities “are
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A lack of appropriate governance structures and properly defined roles allowed the former chief executive of the refugee charity Care4Calais to dominate the organisation without challenge, the Charity Commission has reported today. In the findings of its statutory inquiry, which concluded today, the regulator criticised the former trustees of the charity for serious historic misconduct
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The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has appointed Mari Jones at its chief operating officer. Jones joins the charity after a 16-year career in telecoms, most recently as emerging channels director at BT. She has several family members who live with sight loss, including her 10-year-old son, Finn. Jones said: “With deep lived
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A military charity has suspended its operations after experiencing “reputational damage” that has “made operating very difficult”, according to its chair of trustees.  The Portsmouth-based charity Forgotten Veterans UK announced on Facebook that it had been “extremely difficult for the charity to run effectively” in recent months.  The Charity Commission opened a regulatory compliance case
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A woman has been jailed after raising £34,000 for people affected by the Australian bushfires but only donating £10 to charity.  Cambridgeshire Constabulary said that in 2020, Kerry Palin, 27 and of Rushden, Northamptonshire, started an “equestrian-themed online auction on Facebook” which she claimed was to raise money for charity. The page exploded in popularity
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The daughter of the record-breaking fundraiser Sir Captain Tom Moore received payments of thousands of pounds to her private company for work in the name of the Captain Tom Foundation, it has been claimed.  BBC Newsnight reported that Hannah Ingram-Moore’s family company was paid “thousands of pounds” for her involvement in the 2021 and 2022
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The Charity Commission has announced statutory inquiries into two connected charities because of concerns about potential misconduct or mismanagement. Investigations have been launched into the Jewish education charities Dalaid and the Schwarzschild Foundation, which both operate out of the same building and share trustee Maurice Levenson. Levenson is also the chair of Dalaid, according to
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The Bone Cancer Research Trust has appointed Will Burchell as its new chief executive. Burchell, who joins from the same role at the Nottinghamshire Deaf Society, succeeds Mat Cottle-Shaw, who has become chief executive at Rotherham Hospice after eight years at the trust, the last almost two as chief executive. The Bone Cancer Research Trust,
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Charities have welcomed a decision by the Mayor of London to boost cash support to change their vehicles to ensure they are compliant with the expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone scheme. Sadiq Khan announced last week that he would increase the funds available under the associated scrappage scheme by £50m to £160m. As
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The conservation charity the Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust is set to receive a donation of almost £24,000 from a farming business that was found to be illegally spreading waste sludge.  The Environment Agency said J E Hartley Ltd, of Thorganby, near York, had submitted an enforcement undertaking after repeatedly spreading waste sludge on its own
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