Charity

NSPCC has introduced a policy whereby candidates for jobs at the children’s charity will receive interview questions ahead of time. The initiative, introduced as part of the charity’s equality, diversity and inclusion commitments, is being rolled out after consultation with the NSPCC’s “lived experience groups”, its EDI trustee Sheanna Patelmaster, who is also a strategy

NGOs are a “far cry” from the organic, democratic organisations society needs to make the calls that anti-racist movements must, Amnesty International UK’s racial justice director told an event today. Speaking on a pre-recorded panel entitled ‘Reclaiming Anti-racism’ which was scheduled to be streamed as part of today’s BAME Online conference, Ilyas Nagdee, who is

St John Ambulance continues to experience challenges retaining and recruiting staff and volunteers, two and a half years after facing allegations of bullying. According to its accounts for 2022, published by Companies House this week, more than 4,000 people joined the first aid charity as volunteers in 2022, but a comparable number also decided to

Proposals to abolish inheritance tax must take into account the risk that charities may lose out on legacy fundraising income, the charity legacy consortium Remember a Charity has warned. Earlier this month, The Guardian newspaper reported that Downing Street is holding talks about making the scrapping of inheritance tax part of its manifesto for the

The Charity Commission has closed its regulatory compliance case into a foundation set up by the UK’s second-richest man, saying it is satisfied that the charity’s activities further its purposes. The regulator opened its case in January into the Jim Ratcliffe Foundation, a sport and conservation charity, after allegations – published in The Guardian newspaper –

Stuart Dean is to join Leonard Cheshire as its new chief financial officer, two months after the Charity Commission launched an investigation into the disability charity’s “challenging financial situation”. Dean, who starts at the charity in September, joins from England’s health and social care regulator the Care Quality Commission, where he spent eight years designing

The supermarket chain Morrisons has raised £5m for children’s palliative care charity Together for Short Lives in just over a year. Morrisons and Together for Short Lives began their partnership, which aims to raise funds for children’s hospices, in February 2022. Staff at Morrisons stores across the country raised funds at events such as in-store

Charity donations by UK millionaires in the second quarter of this year were less than one-third of their value during the previous quarter, according to research from The Beacontree Collaborative. A quarterly survey of 300 to 500 high net worth individuals carried out by the market research firm Savanta found that the median level of

The Charity Commission has opened inquiries into two connected charities funding educational institutes in Israel amid “significant concerns” of poor financial management, including the use of pre-signed blank cheques. The regulator said it had opened statutory inquiries into the Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust and The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust, which each

Augmented reality, artificial intelligence and new communications channels will all shape mass participation fundraising over the next decade, according to a new report from the mass participation events agency Massive. The Ten Years of the Massive Top 25 report, released today, acknowledges that many charities will struggle to match the private sector in leveraging these

The Royal Society for Blind Children has appointed Julie Davis as its next chief executive. Davis will join RSBC, which supports blind and partially sighted children and their families, in October, after more than three years in the top job at the international development charity Hope for Children.  She succeeds Sue Sharp, who announced in

St Mungo’s has agreed to talks today with Unite the Union after the trade union accused the homelessness charity of undermining the strike undertaken by hundreds of its workers by using agency labour. A spokeswoman for St Mungo’s said the meeting would go ahead and that the charity was committed to bringing an end to

The children’s mental health charity Place2Be has expressed concern at not being told by police that one of its employees had been charged with serious sexual offences, resulting in it to continue employing him for more than a year. Morgan Prior was hired by the charity in April 2021, a month after he was charged

The Natural History Museum has rebranded, overhauling its logo, digital platforms and onsite visual identity to better engage audiences.  The charity, which will mark its 150th anniversary in 2031, has also launched a strategy focused on delivering a future in which both people and the planet thrive, and said the rebrand would match its ambitions.

A charity founded by the widow of Roald Dahl has denounced the late children’s author for his “undeniable racism” and issued an apology for antisemitic comments he made. The Buckinghamshire-based Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, which was founded in 2001 by Dahl’s film producer widow Felicity Ann Dahl, acknowledged the author’s antisemitism in a

An “accounting error” was one of the reasons for the downfall of Coventry City of Culture Trust, according to a new report from the National Audit Office. The report, published on Tuesday, outlines the reasons the charity collapsed in February after receiving £22.8m in funding from the Departure for Culture, Media and Sport and its

Income at the veterans charity Help for Heroes has stabilised after two years of decline, the latest figures show.  The charity’s annual accounts, for the year to the end of September 2022, show it recorded income of £18.9m, up slightly from £18.5m in the previous 12 months. Income at the charity was £26.9m in 2018/19

Peter Babudu has been appointed as the new executive director at Impact on Urban Health, part of Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation. He joins the not-for-profit organisation, which aims to address how living in cities impacts people’s health, from the Youth Endowment Fund, where he has spent four years as the assistant director of research

Help Musicians, which supports professional musicians across the UK in times of crisis, has appointed Sarah Woods (pictured) as its new chief executive.  Woods, who has served as interim chief executive at the charity since May and takes the reins with immediate effect, succeeds James Ainscough, who left the charity earlier this year to become

The children’s charity Coram has defended a decision to more than double the rent for a nursery it helped create in north London, despite the nursery’s claims that it may now be forced to close. The Thomas Coram nursery school, an early years centre for children aged two to five in Camden, north London, will

HM Revenue & Customs is offering £5.5m to voluntary sector organisations to help people who need support with their tax affairs. HMRC said the funding, which will be worth £1.8m a year from 2024 to 2027, wlil be available through its Voluntary and Community Sector Grant Funding programme.  Bids can be submitted between 24 July

A mental health charity that closed this year after a last-ditch fundraiser fell short has been ordered to pay £14,500 to an employee dismissed because of her ill health. Sea Sanctuary, which was based in Cornwall, was found by a tribunal to have discriminated against Ms F Wilkinson. The three-person tribunal, whose report was published

Nearly three quarters of charities do not feel prepared for the “opportunities and challenges” of artificial intelligence, according to this year’s Charity Digital Skills Report. Published today, the report includes the results of a flash poll of 100 UK charities, asking them a range of questions about AI. The survey revealed that 73 per cent

A UK charity has named a Middle Eastern princess as a director. Turquoise Mountain Trust’s appointment of Princess Dana Firas of Jordan was revealed in an email update from Companies House. The £9.2m charity, formed by the then Prince Charles in 2006, exists to “revive historic areas and traditional crafts, to provide jobs, skills and

The future and the past are orange for a £6.7m medical research charity which has today revealed its new look. Muscular Dystrophy UK has undergone a brand refresh to “help reach and support more of the 110,000 people in the UK living with one of over 60 muscle-wasting and weakening conditions”. And it has recruited

Yorkshire Water will hand over £235,000 to a wildlife charity for polluting a beck – taking the total it has given to the organisation to almost £1m in two years. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust will get the latest donation following an investigation by the Environment Agency, which found that the water company had illegally polluted a

A new guide has been published to dispel “the top 10 myths that abound” about the charity sector. The guidance from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, published today, covers how charities are run, carry out their work, are funded and staffed, and whether they are liable for tax or their vulnerability

The Charity Commission today moved to silence “false and misleading” claims about the ongoing closure of the Islamic Centre of England’s London headquarters. The regulator released a statement saying the mosque could not be reopened because the charity had “problems in securing the necessary insurance”. It added: “The commission is aware of various reports and

Charities and their donors have benefitted from a significant year-on-year increase in tax relief, with the 2022/23 total hitting almost £6bn. The sum includes a 19 per cent rise in Gift Aid, with HM Revenue & Customs paying charities £1.6bn in the last financial year. But there are concerns about payroll giving, as the total

One of the UK’s fastest-growing charities has appointed a new number two to “take fundraising to the next level”. Last month, Islamic Relief Worldwide reported 2022 income of £234m – up from £183m in 2021 and £130.3m in 2019. Now it is targeting even greater growth and today announced the appointment of Zia Salik as