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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The sight and hearing loss charity Deafblind UK has appointed Nikki Morris as its new chief executive. Morris will be replacing Steve Conway, who retired at the end of 2022 after leading the charity since 2018. Prior to joining the organisation, Morris worked as deputy chief executive and director of operations at Big C Cancer
A conservation group could be evicted from its home over a row about taking children walking over a frozen lake. Forestry England said it would not renew the Rewild Project’s licence to work on its land after the community interest company organised the walk in December. The licence expired at the end of 2022. The
A second charity has turned down a £10,000 donation from funds raised to support an alleged victim of gang rape who has since been convicted of inventing the ordeal. Women’s Community Matters, a charity that helps victims of sexual and domestic violence in Barrow, was one of two organisations due to share £20,000 raised for
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
A children’s home run by the country’s biggest autism charity has been barred temporarily from taking in any more young people after a highly critical Ofsted inspection. Inspectors warned that children are “at risk of serious harm” in the home, which is run by the National Autistic Society, and issued a “notice restricting accommodation”. The
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
The Charity Commission has opened a regulatory compliance case into the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God over potential safeguarding issues. This follows claims by former members of the church’s youth group that they were shown pictures of dead bodies “as a warning of what happens to those who leave the church”, the Guardian
The Charity Commission has opened a compliance case into the Campaign Against Antisemitism. The commission confirmed that it was “assessing concerns” about the charity, but did not go into further detail about the allegations made. This is the second time the regulator has opened a compliance case into the CAA. In 2018, the commission intervened
The Trussell Trust posted a £16.4m deficit last year as it handed out £28m to help food banks cope with surging demand, its accounts show. The value of grants made by the Trussell Trust increased almost seven-fold between 2021 and 2022, and were shared between 400 food banks across the UK. Food banks have been
Charities could benefit from up to 2.5 million new volunteers in 2023, according to “hugely positive” new research. A study from the think tank Pro Bono Economics shows that one in six (17 per cent) people aged 11-34 in the UK who are not currently volunteering said that they planned to start in the new
Former Acevo boss Vicky Browning is among dozens of charity sector figures recognised in the 2023 New Year Honours list. Browning, who led the umbrella body for charity chief executives between 2017 and 2022, was made an OBE and said she was “chuffed” to be recognised. Ian Green, the outgoing chief executive of the Terrence
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
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.
Charities are working with the lights off, limiting how far staff can drive and raiding their reserves as the economic crisis deepens, new research has found. Pro Bono Economics and Nottingham Trent University collated responses from 780 third sector organisations to produce a bleak report that warns of reduced services and potential charity closures. Pro
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
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.
Press Release This December Orange Genie held a reverse advent calendar event to support the most vulnerable in their local community United Kingdom, December 2022 In the first three weeks of December 2022, Orange Genie staff have been taking part in a reverse advent calendar event, the proceeds from which they have donated to a
The regulator has today issued advice to the voluntary sector’s trustees on dealing with the cost-of-living crisis – including what to do if a charity needs to merge or close. The Charity Commission’s end-of-year document is direct about the challenges that are ahead in 2023 and offers advice on how to face and deal with
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
Charities will have to answer a new set of questions in their 2023 annual return, the regulator has announced. The updated questions, announced on Wednesday, are a result of a feedback form completed by charities following the consultation launched by the Charity Commission, which ran from 9 June to 1 September. The changes to the
Military charity Help for Heroes has distanced itself from former patron Jeremy Clarkson amid an ongoing row about his abuse of the Duchess of Sussex. The charity said it wrote yesterday to Clarkson, who was a founding patron of Help for Heroes in 2007, and ruled out working with him again in the future because
The number of people donating to charity in November was down by nearly four million, new figures show. According to the Charities Aid Foundation’s latest UK Giving research, which tracks household donor behaviour, 3.8m fewer people gave to or sponsored someone for charity last month. The research shows that 36 per cent of individuals made
A care charity has been ordered to pay more than £40,000 to 12 former employees, after a tribunal upheld claims of unauthorised deductions from wages. Multicultural Elderly Care Centre, based in Glasgow, was ordered to pay £40,620 shared between the former employees, following an employment tribunal judgement published last week. This follows a ruling from
Former Kids Company chief executive Camila Batmanghelidjh is set to face the Charity Commission in court after a judge gave permission for a judicial review of the inquiry into the organisation’s closure. Mr Justice Charles Bourne ruled today that she had an “arguable case”, having considered her complaints about the regulator’s review at a High
New limits have been placed on how personal data is shared between charities and the Home Office. The updated government policy, which came into force last year and was first reported in The Guardian newspaper this week, comes after years of wrangling over how personal data collected by charities delivering contracts with the Home Office
The social care charity Turning Point raised more than £140m in 2021/22 as it grew for the third year in a row. It turned over £142.3m last year, a record for the charity and an increase of nearly £11m on 2020/21. Turning Point spent £140.1m, up sharply on £128.3m the year before, and recorded an
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
One of the country’s largest foundations has announced plans to uplift grants to help charities during the inflation crisis. The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation said today that it would spend £7.4m to increase funding to many existing grantees “in recognition of the extraordinary rise in the cost of living over the past year”. The scheme will
Charities have urged the government to rethink changes to a multimillion-pound loan scheme amid fears that they will be unable to access financial help in the new year. The government-backed Recovery Loan Scheme, which was established in April 2021, requires applicants to generate more than 50 per cent of their income from trading. Charities are
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