Charity

Oxfam GB raised more than £370m last year as it partially recovered from the financial impact of the pandemic. The charity’s accounts for the year to March 2022, published today, show that its income was £373m, up 8 per cent compared with 2020/21. This is still substantially lower than the charity’s record income of £434m

A man has been ordered to repay nearly £2,500 to Macmillan Cancer Support after admitting to defrauding the charity for more than a decade.  Richard Bramley, aged 56, received a suspended jail sentence when he appeared before Boston Magistrates Court on Monday. He pleaded guilty last month to collecting donations for Macmillan as part of

An environmental charity has received a £25,000 payout from a waste firm following the contamination of groundwater at its site. The Environment Agency ordered that a payment be made to Rockingham Forest Trust, a local organisation based in Northamptonshire, after the waste management company Augean South discharged harmful chemicals in groundwater next to its treatment

Unite members at the homelessness charity Shelter have voted to go on strike in a row over pay. The union said that Shelter needed to “put their house in order” as it prepared to announce which days will be affected by industrial action. Unite balloted its 450 members at Shelter last month after describing the

Two equal rights charities face a nervous wait for a tribunal ruling that could herald significant changes to Charity Commission registration rules. The judge has finished hearing arguments in the case brought by the trans youth charity Mermaids against the LGB Alliance. But no date has yet been set for the ruling, which might not

Cats Protection is the charity most likely to receive a legacy gift from one of its supporters, new research shows. The Legacy Potential Premier League Table 2022-23, produced by the research company Fastmap and the consultancy Freestyle Marketing, ranks charities by their potential to generate gifts in wills from existing supporters. Cats Protection replaced last

Stuart Andrew MP has been named as the new minister for civil society. Andrew will be responsible for charities as part of his role at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, according to the government website.  Andrew, the Conservative MP for Pudsey, Horsforth and Aireborough in Yorkshire, worked as a charity fundraiser before

The Charity Commission has disqualified a former trustee at the charity for professional footballers as part of an ongoing inquiry.  The regulator said Darren Wilson was initially suspended from his role at the Players Foundation but had since been banned. The decision means Wilson cannot work as a trustee or senior manager at any charity for

The charity behind Parkrun recorded its highest-ever income last year. Parkrun Global raised £5.6m in the year ending in January 2022, boosted by the one-off acquisition of the company running its events in Australia. The organisation’s latest accounts, published today by Companies House, show that the deal was worth £1.4m to the charity. As a

A manager at a Scottish cancer charity has been arrested and charged after an investigation into financial irregularities at the organisation. Police Scotland confirmed that 59-year-old Lindsay MacCallum, who worked for Rainbow Valley, was arrested last month. A spokesperson for Rainbow Valley said the charity had supported the police investigation. Rainbow Valley has spent about

Arts Council England is tripling the number of ethnic minority-led organisations it funds in the next three years as part of an overhaul of its grants programme. Big-name beneficiaries including the Royal Opera House will have their funding cut as ACE endeavours to invest more money in the arts outside London. Today ACE announced that

The Vegan Society is to cut 16 jobs after admitting it had been “too ambitious” and was “unable to balance its books for 2023”. The charity made the shock announcement to staff in a Zoom team meeting yesterday. In an internal email seen by Third Sector, Steve Hamon, chief executive of the charity, told staff

A charity shop manager who stole thousands of pounds of charity money after falling victim to an online romance scam has been spared jail. Claire Starkey, 47 and of Strathlorne Close in Tranmere, Merseyside, stole just under £4,000 from one of Wirral Hospice St John’s charity shops between January and March this year, Liverpool Crown

Government, regulators and the media must rethink their approach to philanthropy and encourage more effective charitable giving, a parliamentary group has warned. A paper from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Philanthropy and Social Investment says reform of philanthropy would help make charities more nimble. It says the UK is one of the world’s most generous

The leader of Christian Aid in Scotland is taking a 12-month sabbatical to become the next moderator of the Church of Scotland General Assembly.  Reverend Sally Foster-Fulton, who has led the poverty relief charity since 2016, will take over from the current moderator, the Rev Iain Greenshields, next May.  The post involves acting as an

The government must work with charities “as a matter of urgency” to ensure the sector is not further damaged by the inflation crisis, a committee of MPs has said. The politicians argued that local charities and other civil society bodies faced “an existential threat” as the cost-of-living situation worsened. The recommendations are included in a

Multi-Year Campaign to Launch with Multiple Non-Profit and Consumer Products Partners NEW YORK – Paramount Consumer Products and Nickelodeon today announced the launch of SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Sea Change, a brand-new global ocean conservation and sustainability initiative. Through partnerships with several non-profit organizations, SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Sea Change aims to help remove and divert five

Eating disorders education hub to be launched‘There is a glaring gap where treatment of eating disorders should be in the UK. I know, as I loved exercise too much, combined it with under-eating, and lost the ability to perform for the last three years and jeopardised my health into the bargain. I wouldn’t have done

Opera Philadelphia, Tequila Rock Revolution, Donn T, and More Top Talent Playing Fundraiser #ForEveryChild – Concert, Dinner, and Silent Auction Tickets on Sale Now Malvern, PA – October 26, 2022: Rajant Corporation, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, will host the third annual “World Music Benefit” for UNICEF. The star-studded event raises awareness and

Membership of England’s largest umbrella organisation for the voluntary sector grew by more than 1,000 in 2021/22, its annual accounts have revealed today. But NCVO had to dig into its reserves to “ensure continued service delivery” after posting a larger-than-expected £718,000 deficit. The annual report and financial accounts for the year ending 31 March 2022

The Scottish government has been warned to expect a wave of strikes unless charities are given the money to fund significant pay rises for their staff. Unison has written to ministers to say that recent votes for industrial action at charities were the “tip of the iceberg”. The organisation, which is Scotland’s biggest union, is

There is confusion over the identity of the next charities minister after Lord Syed Kamall left the post. Kamall, a Conservative peer, was appointed as a minister for civil society, heritage, tourism and growth last month by then-Prime Minister Liz Truss. But the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport website says Lord Kamall left

The National Trust is set to face fierce opposition at its AGM as “anti-woke insurgents” vie for election to its ruling council. Campaign group Restore Trust has submitted two resolutions and is promoting seven candidates for the National Trust’s election. Restore Trust-backed candidates include former fund manager and Tory donor Philip Gibbs, conservative historians Jeremy

A ballot closes on Friday to decide whether 450 workers at homelessness charity Shelter will take strike action. The ballot follows an imposed three per cent consolidated pay increase in April and a one-off £1,500 cost-of-living payment. Unite the Union called the pay rise “insulting”, while Shelter said the one-off payment meant non-management staff would

Legacy income will reach a record £4bn by the end of the year – but charities are still waiting for £300m that is “stuck in the system”, experts have said. The latest research from Legacy Foresight, using data from 82 charities, forecasts that legacies will be worth £4bn in 2022, an increase of 14 per

A “vital” committee supporting small charities should be up and running by the end of this year, the National Council for Voluntary Organisations said. The NCVO and Foundation for Social Improvement announced six months ago that they would create a small charities advisory group to maintain some of the work previously carried out by the

The Charity Commission has frozen the accounts of a religious charity over issues including potential links to an extreme right-wing organisation. The Saint George Educational Trust, based in Hampshire, had already been investigated by the commission over its association with far-right groups. The commission announced today that it had opened a statutory inquiry over serious

A woman has been jailed for stealing almost £94,000 from a cancer charity where she had worked for 27 years. Paula Tribbeck, 48, said she was addicted to taking the money after police found countless invoices stuffed in bags in the back of a wardrobe at her house, Southampton Crown Court heard. The court was

Charities should drop “flaky” measurement systems as they try to show their impact, a think tank boss has said. Dan Corry, chief executive of NPC, told his organisation’s annual conference that a focus on social return on investment, through which charities attach a cash value to the outcomes achieved thanks to investment in their projects,

A third of funders in London have increased the value of their charity grants or plan to do so as the cost of living crisis bites, according to a survey. Foundations in the capital are reacting to a “genuine sense of desperation” among the charities they support, the survey says, as inflation and energy prices