Charity

Charities running community buildings face a fresh financial crunch in March when their energy deals change, research has warned. About half of community groups running village halls and other local buildings will have to renew their energy tariffs in two months’ time, the analysis says. But they still do not know what support will be
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King Charles’s charity has been urged to perform “proper due diligence” if it continues work on a major property development in Bahrain despite the country’s human rights violations. Amnesty International UK said that the Prince’s Foundation has a responsibility to “avoid complicity in human rights violations”, after the Daily Mail reported that the charity would
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One of the country’s largest social care charities has named its new chief executive. Jim Kane took over the top job at Community Integrated Care yesterday. Kane, who has been the charity’s chief financial officer since 2019, will succeed Mark Adams, who stepped down last September.  CIC supports about 3,500 people a year across England
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What is it with the 2020s? First, 2020 gave us the heartbreak and disruption of Covid-19. Then, 2021 kept the pandemic coming – leaving charities to deal with falling income and rising demands. Would 2022 provide relief? Sadly not. Russia invaded Ukraine, unleashing death and displacement. The war also contributed to the highest inflation in
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Twenty charities across the UK have been recognised by receiving a special Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Volunteering Award. Charities including the British Youth Council, LGBT Youth Scotland and The Social Mobility Foundation were selected for a one-off addition to the annual Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service that celebrates their work to empower young people.
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The brain injury charity Headway has announced the appointment of its new chief executive following the retirement of Peter McCabe, who served in the role for 20 years. Luke Griggs accepted the leadership role this month after a three-month stint as interim chief executive. He said: “It is an absolute honour to be given the
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Income at the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action remains stable despite a budgeted deficit at the beginning of the year, according to its latest accounts.  Navca’s annual return for the year ending in March 2022 shows that the membership body’s income recorded a slight decrease to £1.36m, compared to £1.54m the previous year. 
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Charity Commission investment guidance invites trustees to “wilfully, recklessly or negligently disregard their obligations”, the regulator has been warned.  A letter to the commission, seen by Third Sector, sets out concerns about the regulator’s CC14 investment guidance, which the commission clarified in November after a High Court ruling in April.  The letter, sent by the
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Parkrun Global has formally ended a clause that paid its founder hundreds of thousands of pounds while he sat on the charity’s board. Paul Sinton-Hewitt, who established Parkrun’s weekly running events and became a trustee when it registered as a charity in 2017, received more than £350,000 between 2018 and 2022. The payments were possible
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