Charity

The Fundraising Regulator has opened a 12-week public consultation on proposed changes to the Code of Fundraising Practice.  The consultation, which runs until 1 December, invites anyone with an interest in fundraising by UK-based charities and third-party organisations to have their say on the code.  The regulator said the review would include amending existing rules,
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Two youth charities based in the North East of England have merged in an effort to strengthen their support for youth across the region. NE Youth, which runs youth programmes across 12 local authority areas, has today added the Northumbria Coalition Against Crime (NCAC) to its portfolio of services. Six staff and 30 volunteers have
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A children’s reading charity has announced the appointment of its new chief executive. Bookmark confirmed Emily Jack took over from Graihagh Crawshaw-Sadler from 1 September. Crawshaw-Sadler stepped down in July and is moving on to be the chief executive of the teacher training charity Now Teach. Jack is a qualified teacher and has worked with
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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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