The National Trust has hit back at a “paid-for” campaign group that the charity says is seeking to influence its governance. The charity accused Restore Trust, a private company that this weekend accused the National Trust of “forays into controversial social activism”, of spreading misleading information about its work. In an opinion piece published by
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A volunteer at the Christian poverty charity St Vincent de Paul has been sentenced to four months in jail for stealing more than £8,000 from the organisation. Barbara Allen, 64, of North Shields, Tyneside, had been volunteering with the organisation for more than a decade when the wrongdoing was uncovered in 2017, Newcastle Crown Court
The membership body Care England has called for immediate government action after figures showed the sector was facing a £2bn uplift in energy prices over the past year. The charity, which represents independent providers of adult social care, said the government must act to prevent a “widespread catastrophe” within the sector. It said figures released
The National Trust has hit back at a campaign group that the charity says is “seeking to subvert” its governance. The charity accused Restore Trust, a private company that this weekend accused the National Trust of “forays into controversial social activism”, of spreading misleading information about its work. In an opinion piece published by The
The disability charity Sense has formed a partnership with a grant-maker for the first time in its 60-year history, in an effort to help beneficiaries cope with rising inflation. Sense has created a £500,000 Cost of Living Support Fund and partnered with Turn2Us to distribute grants. Richard Kramer, chief executive of Sense, told Third Sector
Charity campaigners will release new anti-racism guidance next month amid concerns that conversations about race and discrimination have become “stifled” in recent months. Lena Bheeroo, engagement and equity manager at the global development umbrella charity Bond, told Third Sector she hoped the framework would bring “motivation and momentum” to anti-racism work at aid charities at
Household-name charities should play a larger part in sector lobbying, a think tank has argued. Leah Davis, head of policy and external affairs at NPC, said advocacy work was “too dispersed” across the sector to influence government most effectively. In an essay exploring the relationship between charities and the government, published today, Davis welcomes the
The RSPCA has paid tribute to a senior inspector who died after working at the charity for nearly 50 years. Mike Butcher, a chief inspector at the RSPCA, died last week due to complications after a long battle with cancer, the charity said. A colleague said Butcher had “worked tirelessly” to protect and rescue abused
UK charities and community interest companies helping people with digital and financial skills are being invited to apply for grants of up to £150,000 from the Santander Foundation. The grant-maker said the Financial and Digital Empowerment Fund, which is in its second year, will support 12 organisations through grants awarded over three years. Charities can
UK charity staff are paid an average of 7 per cent less per hour than equivalent staff in other sectors, new research has found. Analysis by the think tank Pro Bono Economics, published today, shows that voluntary sector workers faced a collective “wage penalty” of nearly £1.5bn in 2019 compared with workers elsewhere in the
A former Foreign Office diplomat has been appointed as the chief executive of a £1m-a-year prison rehabilitation charity. Sian Williams will join Switchback in October. She succeeds Alice Dawnay, who founded the charity 15 years ago and announced her departure in May. Williams joins Switchback from Toynbee Hall, where she is director of policy and
The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland has resolved a 10-year inquiry into a charity that made outstanding loans worth millions of pounds to businesses linked to a trustee. The CCNI called its investigation into Victoria Housing Estates Ltd “one of the most complex and prolonged” cases it had ever conducted. The inquiry was closed after
The grant-making charity founded by the controversial steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta is expected to continue its work despite growing questions about his business empire. The GFG Foundation, which was established in 2017 as a grant-maker supporting training for engineers, is funded exclusively through donations from Gupta and his wife. Companies House documents show the couple
Employees have donated more than £1.6bn to charities through the Charities Aid Foundation’s payroll giving service over the past 35 years. CAF said its service had supported about 40,000 charities since 1987 and worked with donors at 2,000 companies in the UK. Payroll giving schemes enable employees to make donations from their salaries before income
A poverty charity has been removed from the register after the regulator found three brothers “abused their position” as trustees. The Charity Commission accused David, Sidney and Michael Chontow, the only trustees of their charity Achiezer, of exploiting the organisation for personal gain. A seven-year statutory inquiry concluded that Achiezer, which had objects of making
The animal welfare charity Mayhew has appointed Sherine Wheeler as its next chief executive. Wheeler, who has been a consultant and strategic adviser since last year, is the long-term successor to Caroline Yates, who last year moved to become the charity’s head of international projects and relations after 14 years in the top role. Wheeler
A Scottish charity has been forced to cancel its 50th anniversary event after supporters said the cost-of-living crisis meant they could not afford tickets. Perth & Kinross Association of Voluntary Service said it started planning a Golden Anniversary Ball in 2020 but dropped the event this week. Supporters told the charity they were “reluctant to
A housing charity that featured in a BBC Panorama documentary this week has said it is reviewing all aspects of its governance and compliance work. The programme alleged that the founder of My Space Housing Solutions used the charity to inflate the value of properties before he sold them on for private profit. The charity
The charity sector must prepare for “an all-hands-on-deck crisis” as inflation bites, experts said today. Economists at the charity think tank Pro Bono Economics issued the warning after official figures showed inflation rose to its highest rate for 40 years. Jane Ide, chief executive of Acevo, told Third Sector that rising costs had charities “over
One of the country’s biggest social care charities has spent about £1m from its reserves so far this year to cover Covid-19 absences. Community Integrated Care said it had been forced to fund growing levels of sick pay from its reserves since the government closed a scheme that covered those costs. CIC warned that other
The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into concerns that a banned trustee is still working for his charity. Alan Blacker, a founding trustee of the Joint Armed Forces Legal Advocacy Service, was disqualified from sitting on any charity board in 2020 after being convicted of dishonestly claiming benefits. Blacker applied for a waiver
The Disasters Emergency Committee’s appeal to support people in Afghanistan has raised more than £50m. The charity, which brings together 15 major humanitarian charities to respond to major emergencies around the world, launched the appeal on 14 December last year. The DEC said its appeal was supporting hundreds of thousands of people in Afghanistan, where
More than half of charities are struggling to fill staff vacancies, new research has found. Analysis by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development found that 53 per cent of charities were trying to find staff for “hard-to-fill vacancies”. This was a higher proportion than all sectors apart from education and transport providers, and above
Parkrun’s founder has resigned from the charity’s trustee board and joined the senior management team, as the organisation overhauls its governance. Paul Sinton-Hewitt, who organised the first Parkrun event in 2004, was a founding trustee of Parkrun Global when it became a charity in 2017. Parkrun Global confirmed that he would now sit on the
One-third of Comic Relief staff are being affected by a restructure intended to help the charity implement a new strategy. The charity has begun a month-long consultation with 55 of its approximately 165 staff over a reorganisation that will result in the loss of some jobs alongside the creation of others. Comic Relief said it
Cash donations to the Natural History Museum more than doubled in 2021/22, as it continued to recover from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The latest accounts for the museum, which is an exempt charity, show it received £6.3m in public donations in the year to March 2022, up from £2.6m in 2020/21. The figure
The cancer support charity Look Good Feel Better has appointed a new chief executive. Mark Flannery, executive director of income generation at St Gemma’s Hospice, will take up his new role next month. Before joining St Gemma’s he worked for the Skills Network, which provides advice and training. He succeeds Sarahjane Robertson, who left Look
Charities have been encouraged to strengthen their bullying policies to deal with unacceptable behaviour in the voluntary sector. In a statement today, the Charity Commission said it expected trustees to handle issues arising in their charities, but warned it would “intervene where there are concerns that trustees are not complying with their responsibilities”. The regulator
A charity linked to Cancer Research UK has apologised after a prospective researcher was told their application had been rejected because they were Russian. The Glasgow-based Beatson Institute, which specialises in the biology of cancer, said it had apologised to the researcher after a “misunderstanding” caused by complex visa rules and international sanctions. The charity
Institutional racism was “allowed to fester” at the global health charity Wellcome, a report has found. An evaluation of its anti-racism programme, released by the UK’s richest charity, found that “limited progress” had been made since the work started in 2020, with some staff worried that the agenda had lost momentum. One in five black
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