Charity

The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into a charity set up by a Saudi billionaire amid claims it took donations intended for one of the Prince of Wales’ charities.  The regulator said today it had opened the probe into the Mahfouz Foundation, which has charitable aims including the promotion of the history and

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Almost two-thirds of workers in the aid sector have experienced racism, according to new research. A report by a working group at the Racial Equity Index, a volunteer-led group that was established to hold the global development sector accountable in dismantling forms of systemic racism, sets out to understand “the state of racism in the

A charity is attempting to distance itself from a trustee it allowed to continue working after he admitting paying for sex with a 16-year-old. Kenneth Lowry, 48, a trustee at the Community Emergency Response Team UK, was sentenced in February to a two-year community service order, 40-day rehabilitation order and a month’s curfew, after he

Together for Short Lives has been named as the next charity partner for the supermarket Morrisons. The partnership, which will begin in February, is expected to raise £10m for the charity over three years. The charity, which had an income of £4.4m in the year to the end of March 2020, said the partnership would

An accounts assistant has been jailed for four years after he fraudulently diverted almost £120,000 from a charity into an online bank account he set up in his mother’s name. Jaswant Singh Kang, also known as Jake Kang and Jake Elliott, of Marina Close, Bournemouth, was convicted of two counts of fraud by false representation.

Tracey Bleakley, chief executive of Hospice UK, is to step down at the end of the year. Bleakley, who has been with the umbrella body for the past six years, will become chief executive designate of the Integrated Care Board for Norfolk and Waveney’s Integrated Care System, as part of the ongoing reforms to the

The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland has been given a list of recommendations to improve its handling of statutory inquiries after an independent inquiry into two highly contentious cases. The CCNI’s actions in its inquiries into the lifeboat charity Lough Neagh Rescue, which took place between May 2013 and January 2015, and the Disabled Police

The Charity Commission has written to the trustees of an animal charity after claims were made that it acted improperly in its pursuit of private prosecutions. Manchester Crown Court judge Nicholas Dean criticised Animal Protection Services earlier this month after finding dozens of pet owners might have suffered miscarriages of justice after being unfairly prosecuted

The National Lottery Community Fund will make £16.3m in grant funding available to social enterprises that have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The Social Enterprise Support Fund will offer grants of between £10,000 and £100,000 to eligible organisations in England. The funding will be distributed by five social enterprise support agencies to help organisations

The sight loss charity Sight Scotland has appointed Craig Spalding as its next chief executive.  Spalding, who is director of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, will also become head of Sight Scotland’s sister charity, Sight Scotland Veterans He succeeds Mark O’Donnell, who announced in the summer that he would step down after four years

More than half of Brits think charities are bottomless pits that are too corporate and have lost their humanity, new research indicates.  A report published by the creative company the Good Agency in partnership with the pollsters YouGov asked more than 4,000 people about their beliefs, giving and preferences. It also includes insight from a

[embedded content] The Royal British Legion has hit back at critics of its latest Poppy Appeal campaign video after it attracted negative comments on social media. The video depicts a family and friends of different ethnicities coming together to reflect on why people still observe two minutes’ silence on Remembrance Day and its significance for

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The chief executive of The Prince’s Foundation has resigned from his post after claims he helped secure an honour for a Saudi Arabian businessman. The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator contacted the foundation in September following reports that Michael Fawcett, Prince Charles’ former aide, helped secure a CBE for Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz.

Strange times call for disruption at all levels, according to the chief executive of the training and publishing charity the Directory of Social Change. Debra Allcock Tyler was speaking at the DSC’s online conference yesterday about how charities could navigate a changing policy sphere and determine the most efficient campaigning strategy and channels for any

About one in three people at the National Lottery Community Fund has witnessed or personally experienced bullying, harassment or discrimination, a government-commissioned inquiry into the grant-maker has found.  The report, which was commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport after it became aware of allegations of a culture of bullying at the

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A London-based charity had to involve the Metropolitan Police in a banking dispute after an HSBC customer refused to return money he had been sent by mistake. Theo Gavrielides, chief executive of the community charity Restorative Justice For All, made a typing error when transferring £5,000 from the charity’s current account to its savings accounts

The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation will put £10m towards an experimental investing pilot aimed at producing financial returns that have a positive societal and environmental impact. The grant-maker will take the money from its investment portfolio and target investments that have a clear and articulated social or environmental purpose that aligns with its impact goals. The

The women’s and girls’ charity Agenda has appointed Indy Cross as its next chief executive. Cross, who is head of communications at the criminal rehabilitation charity Spark Inside, will succeed Jemima Olchawski, who has become chief executive of the Fawcett Society. Agenda said Cross had almost 20 years’ experience in the voluntary sector and has

Funders are being urged to be brave in their support for decolonising work after a membership body released new guidance for museums to address the legacy of British colonialism. The Museums Association, a charitable membership body that “advocates for museums without fear or favour from governments or funding influences”, yesterday published the guidance, called ‘Supporting

The Charity Commission has criticised a charity that transferred the ownership of a school it ran to one of its trustees.  The regulator today published its report about its inquiry into Avicenna Global, which was registered as a charity in 2013 with objects of the advancement of education with a focus on the works of

An animal charity has denied claims it acted improperly after a judge criticised its “perverse” and “over-zealous” use of private prosecutions. Manchester Crown Court judge Nicholas Dean criticised Animal Protection Services and said dozens of pet owners might have suffered miscarriages of justice after being unfairly prosecuted by the charity and Parry & Welch, a

A coalition of more than 50 charities has launched a new service with £3m in funding to help pre-empt climate emergencies.  The financial service, which was launched today at the climate change summit COP26, aims to support the voluntary sector in tackling the climate crisis.  The service launches with commitments of £3m, including £1m from

More than 50 charity umbrella bodies have launched a new body aimed at increasing collaboration and engaging better with the government.  The Civil Society Group, which has been launched today with 55 members including the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, the chief executives body Acevo, the Chartered Institute of Fundraising and the Small Charities Coalition,

The charity tribunal has rejected two appeals seeking to overturn decisions made by the Charity Commission. The regulator welcomed the judgment upholding its decision to appoint new trustees to the Birmingham-based Mohiuddin Trust. The regulator made the decision as part of its statutory inquiry into the charity, which was set up to advance of Islam

The voluntary sector research consultancy nfpSynergy has been sold to two long-standing staff members for an undisclosed sum.  Joe Saxton, who co-founded the firm in 2002, said he and his family had this week signed a deal to sell the company to co-directors Cian Murphy and Tim Harrison-Byrne.  In a blog on the nfpSynergy website,

The Bank Workers Charity has appointed Ed Holloway as its next chief executive.  Holloway, who is executive director of digital and services at the MS Society, is the long-term successor to John Mallalieu, who left the BWC in September 2020 after three years to become chief executive of the Leeds United Foundation. Alison Seabrooke covered

A Court of Appeal ruling involving a Christian fostering charity has highlighted how the approval of one regulator does not serve as a defence to potentially discriminatory practices, lawyers have warned.  Cornerstone recruits and supports carers for children in local authority care who need to be fostered and in some cases adopted.  Part of the