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Shelter workers have suspended their strike to allow a ballot on a new offer from the charity.  After protracted talks at the conciliation service Acas, Unite the Union suspended the strike as “an act of good faith”, a spokesperson for the union said. The strike began on 5 December over the charity’s imposition of a

Action for Children has appointed from within to fill its chief executive vacancy on a permanent basis, it announced today. The charity named Paul Carberry, who has worked for it for 28 years and is the current national director for Scotland. He will take up the chief executive role in March – succeeding Melanie Armstrong,

Charity leaders have rounded on Twitter after it suddenly dissolved the volunteer group which advised it on user safety, including hate speech and child abuse. The Trust and Safety Council, formed in 2016 and which included approximately 100 independent, human rights and other organisations, was disbanded on Monday via email. Alex Holmes, deputy chief executive

Seven per cent of people working for environmental charities in the UK are from Black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds, new research shows. One in 14 of those working for environmental organisations in the UK identify as BAME, compared to the national average of 14 per cent across the wider charity sector, according to the

A Sheffield charity is set to make almost half of its staff redundant in an attempt to survive the cost-of-living crisis.  Heeley City Farm announced it would be seeking to make 18 of its 40 staff members redundant to keep the charity open. In an announcement posted on the charity’s Twitter page, Dave Clarson, chair

WaterAid recorded its highest-ever income last year despite falling funding from the government. The international development charity raised £91.9m in the year to the end of March 2022, according to its latest accounts. This is slightly higher than in 2019, when WaterAid brought in £91.4m. The accounts, published last week with Companies House, show that

Transgender support charity Mermaids has named an interim chief executive – two weeks after it became the subject of a Charity Commission statutory inquiry. Lauren Stoner began her stint by writing a letter to supporters on the charity’s website, promising to work hard to ensure it was a “trusted source of support and advice” for

The voluntary sector and the public are being asked to comment on proposals that would give the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) wider powers to investigate organisations and their trustees. The Charities (Regulation and Administration) (Scotland) Bill contains a number of clauses that would give OSCR more legislative strength – including tighter rules

Arts Council England (ACE) has today rebuffed an MP’s suggestion during a Commons hearing that parts of its latest £1bn round of spending were “politically motivated”. The body’s chief executive, Darren Henley, was before a DCMS committee in the midst of controversy over millions of pounds of grant aid being taken away from London and

More than 20 jobs are at risk after a mental health charity announced it needs to raise £200,000 by the end of the year to remain open. Sea Sanctuary, which is based in Cornwall, warned that its closure could be “catastrophic” for its beneficiaries. The charity said in a statement that it had been hit

‘Frazzled’ charity leaders are worrying about recruitment and retention as well as exhaustion, according to new research. A new report published by the research charity IVAR identified three main concerns that charity leaders in the UK share. They are continued social and political volatility, difficulty in recruiting and retaining staff and exhaustion across the sector

Greenpeace has taken the rare step of revealing the number of supporters who have cancelled their regular contributions in the past month, as part of a fundraising campaign to prospective donors. In an email seen by Third Sector, Deborah McLean, the organisation’s fundraising director, says that “sadly, 2,352 people have had to cancel their regular

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, has officially stepped down from a charity he founded and its chief executive has also left after concerns were raised over his salary. Hunt founded the healthcare charity Patient Safety Watch in 2019 and served as one of its trustees until November, when he left the organisation after

The Charity Commission has appointed an interim manager to investigate a religious charity embroiled in controversy over a social media post that appeared to praise the Taliban. Dar ul Uloom Islamia Rizwia (Bralawai) has been the subject of a statutory inquiry by the regulator since November 2021. The inquiry is looking into the trustees’ potential

A judge today deferred his decision in Kids Company’s case against the Charity Commission after being told its founder Camila Batmangelidjh’s reputation had been “tainted” by the regulator. Mr Justice Charles Bourne is considering whether to allow a judicial review into an inquiry report by the commission which examined Kids Company’s sudden collapse in 2015.

A peer who was a charity chief executive has put the spotlight on funders – urging them to “dig deep” to help organisations navigate through the cost-of-living crisis. Baroness Young of Old Scone issued an “admonition to funders”, calling for greater financial support for charities in the coming months. In a speech at the NPC

The charity Samaritans today said “our only agenda is reducing suicide” after a row broke out on social media over its tweet about trans and non-binary suicide rates. The Charity Commission said it was investigating a complaint made against the voluntary organisation in connection with a Twitter post that said “trans people have higher rates

A judge will decide this week whether to allow a judicial review into the way the Charity Commission handled its report into Kids Company. Kids Company closed abruptly in 2015 after a series of media reports alleging financial mismanagement and safeguarding failures. In February this year, the commission published a long-awaited inquiry report into the

More than 30 staff lost their jobs at the transport charity HCT Group collapsed at the end of the summer, a new report reveals. HCT’s work included running transport services for children with special educational needs and operating red buses for Transport for London before it went into administration in September. The charity recorded an

Friends of the Earth has become one of the first third sector organisations to move to a four-day week. Employees will work five hours fewer each week and receive the same pay, the organisation said, in a move it hoped would make staff “more energised and focused”. Adrian Cruden, head of people at Friends of

A religious group has been accused by the Charity Commission of a catalogue of accounting failings and conflicts of interest, including one that it called a “criminal offence”. Beth Yosef Foundation was removed from the register of charities in June at the end of a six-year statutory inquiry that included a host of missed deadlines

The racist abuse faced by a charity boss at Buckingham Palace is further evidence that black people are made to feel they “do not belong” in the voluntary sector, a campaigner has said. Ngozi Fulani, chief executive of the domestic violence charity Sistah Space, was questioned about “which part of Africa” she was from when

A UK charity has filed a serious incident report with the Charity Commission after one of its backers went bankrupt last month. The Charity Commission told CNBC that Effective Ventures Foundation filed the report related to “the collapse of FTX”, a US cryptocurrency exchange whose philanthropic arm, FTX Foundation, had funded the UK charity in

A gang of smugglers used a dissolved religious charity as a front to help them traffic 400kg of cannabis into the UK in fruit and vegetable cans, a court heard. The three men used Birmingham-based Vision Christian Ministries as a delivery address in 2017 for the consignments from Jamaica that were valued at £2m if

The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into governance and management at the transgender rights charity Mermaids. The regulator said it was looking into “newly identified issues” found after it started a compliance case into the charity in September.  A statutory inquiry allows the commission to use all its available legal powers. Mermaids said

St Andrew’s healthcare spent £1m on redundancy payments as staff numbers fell by 10 per cent last year, its latest accounts show. The organisation, one of the country’s largest charities, also saw income fall by 8 per cent. A critical inspection by care regulators contributed to the drop in income, according to St Andrew’s’ latest

People would prefer local charities and social enterprises to tackle issues in their communities rather than national bodies, polling has found. Data from research by Big Society Capital shows that about six in 10 people back local groups to address problems such as homelessness and poor transport links, rising to two-thirds of adults under 34.

The government recovered nearly £900,000 last year from the liquidation of Kids Company’s assets, seven years after the charity was wound up. The figure is revealed in the 2021/22 accounts for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which were published today. Kids Company, which received £46m in public funding over 20 years, closed

A treasurer who caused “torment” by stealing more than £100,000 of donations meant for Cancer Research UK has been jailed for 40 months. Ian Smith pocketed money that was raised over several years by Clacton’s Relay for Life volunteers, through activities including sponsored car washes and auctions. Smith, 54, of London Road, Clacton, had previously

UK, Reading. November 29, 2022 – IGEL, provider of the managed endpoint operating system for secure access to any digital workspace, today announced that it is major technology partner supporting the annual Crisis for Christmas campaign to help the homeless – the 12th year it has helped the charity. Since 1967, Crisis has supported the