Charity

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

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