Charity

A preferred candidate for the role of permanent chair of the Charity Commission has been chosen, the government has revealed. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has confirmed that interviews for the role, which had been delayed, have now taken place and said it will announce the identity of the person it wants to take up the position

The national poverty charity Turn2Us has revealed a new brand and strapline chosen to better reflect its purpose. The charity said its new look and refreshed strapline – “Tackling financial insecurity together” – would help it offer support to greater numbers of people affected by financial insecurity, while tackling the symptoms and causes of poverty.

Amnesty International will close two offices in Hong Kong by the end of 2021, after warning that a national security law is putting the charity’s employees at risk. An office focused on human rights education in Hong Kong will cease operations at the end of October, while a regional office that forms part of the

Rachael Maskell, the shadow charities minister, has questioned why there has been a delay in the government appointing a new permanent chair of the Charity Commission. The Labour and Co-operative MP for York Central asked culture secretary Nadine Dorries about the delay in a written parliamentary question at the end of last week. Baroness Stowell,

The Alzheimer’s Society’s overall income broadly held up last year thanks to an almost 25 per cent rise in individual giving and £4.5m from the government’s furlough scheme.  The charity’s latest annual accounts, for the year to the end of March, show it had a total income of £111.1m, a fall of £2.7m on the

Charity leaders have backed a call for a cross-sector strategy to plug a “data chasm” that is leaving some in the sector “operating in the dark”. A new report for the Law Family Commission on Civil Society, a two-year initiative that was launched in December to examine how the potential of civil society can be unlocked across

HIV Scotland has been fined £10,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office after sending an email that could have revealed the HIV status of dozens of people.  The ICO said it had issued the fine after the charity sent an email in February last year with all recipients’ addresses visible to 105 people, including patient advocates

A number of temporary provisions put in place to help charities navigate the coronavirus pandemic have come to an end. As the pandemic hit in March last year the regulator issued new guidance acknowledging that the nature of Covid-19 meant it might be necessary to cancel or postpone critical meetings, events and annual general meetings on

Amanda Khozi Mukwashi is to step down as chief executive of Christian Aid to take up a new role at the United Nations. Khozi Mukwashi, who joined Christian Aid in April 2018, said she would leave the charity at the end of the year to take up her new position in early 2022. Further details

A youth volunteering charity that closed in 2018 is set to merge with the education charity Speakers for Schools. The charity said it could not disclose the cost of the merger for commercial reasons, but confirmed that it intended to invest in vInspired’s services and brands, alongside its portfolio of programmes. This will include the

A youth volunteering charity that closed in 2018 is set to merge with the education charity Speakers for Schools. The charity said it could not disclose the cost of the merger for commercial reasons, but confirmed that it intended to invest in vInspired’s services and brands, alongside its portfolio of programmes. This will include the

Cats Protection has appointed Charles Darley as interim chief executive for the next year. Darley, who took up the role on 6 October, succeeds James Yeates, who left the animal welfare charity in September to take up the top job at the World Federation for Animals, an international membership body for animal protection organisations. Cats

The Fundraising Regulator plans to review the Code of Fundraising Practice next year with a focus on digital and including raising money on platforms that are not charitable.  Gerald Oppenheim, chief executive of the Fundraising Regulator, discussed the organisation’s ongoing priorities for regulation earlier today at an online conference run by Westminster Policy Forum. Oppenheim

The government has abandoned plans to make the British Council an exempt charity.  The Conservative peer Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts had tabled a motion that would have expressed his opposition to the move, but said the motion had been shelved because the proposal it referred to had been withdrawn. Third Sector was subsequently told

The former boss of the charity UK Youth has accepted the chief executive job at London’s biggest food redistribution charity. Charlotte Hill, who will join The Felix Project in January, succeeds Mark Curtin, who left the charity in August to become head of the youth cricket and disability sports charity The Lord’s Taverners. Hill was

The police are investigating an allegation of financial fraud at a charity that runs a large Birmingham mosque. West Midlands Police said they were looking at a report made last week relating to the financial arrangements of Dar UI Uloom Islamia Rizvia charity, which runs the Central Jamia Mosque Ghamkol Sharif in Small Heath.  The

David Knott, interim chief executive of the National Lottery Community Fund, has been appointed to the role on a permanent basis. Knott, who has been interim chief executive at the grant-maker since June, joined the NLCF as a senior adviser in October 2020 on secondment from his substantive role as director of the Office for

Save the Children is not about to start changing its name, the aid charity’s chief executive has said.   Gemma Sherrington, the charity’s director of fundraising and marketing, told delegates at Third Sector’s annual Fundraising Conference in June that Save was having “a very live conversation” about its name at a time when the aid sector was

The government is being urged to appoint a philanthropy commissioner and create a funding pot to run civil society infrastructure pilots in levelling up priority areas. The Law Family Commission on Civil Society, a two-year initiative launched by Pro Bono Economics in December last year to examine how the potential of civil society can be

The British Heart Foundation’s London to Brighton bike ride will return next year for the first time since 2019, the charity has announced.  The event, which usually raises millions of pounds for the charity, has been cancelled for the past two years because of the coronavirus pandemic.  In January, the charity decided to call off

Civil society should harness data to emulate the success of platform economies to help tackle the challenges facing post-pandemic society, delegates at the think tank NPC’s annual conference have heard.  Julia Unwin, chair of the Independent Inquiry on the Future of Civil Society, closed the last day of NPC’s online conference yesterday with a keynote presentation

Scouts Scotland has appointed Graeme Luke as its new chief executive after working his way up through the ranks in more than 20 years at the charity. Luke replaces Katie Docherty who has become chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising.  He takes on the charity’s top job after more than 20 years at

The charity sector is missing the bigger picture and becoming an “internal service agency for the government”, delegates at the think tank NPC’s annual conference have heard.  Indy Johar, founding director at Dark Matter Labs, an organisation that works to transition society in response to technological revolution and climate breakdown, made the remarks during the

The social impact investment market in the UK grew more than a quarter last year to a record £6.4bn during the pandemic, according to new research.  ​​Figures released by social investor Big Society Capital show that more than £1.2bn was committed to 1,152 charities in 2020. The data, from BSC’s Annual Market Sizing Report, estimates

A sharp rise in legacies and one-off gifts enabled Action for Children to increase its fundraising income by more than £1.2m last year despite the coronavirus pandemic.  The charity’s latest accounts show its income from legacies and donations reached almost £20m in the year to the end of March, up from £18.7m in the previous

Unite the union will ballot members on strike action at the animal welfare charity Mayhew after it accused the organisation’s bosses of culling jobs without consultation.  Unite said it would hold a consultative ballot on whether its members wanted to proceed with a full-scale industrial action ballot with the option to strike. In a statement,

A record-breaking more than 12,000 social enterprises were created last year, according to a new report.  No Going Back: State of Social Enterprise Report 2021, published today by the membership body Social Enterprise UK, says there are more than 100,000 social enterprises in the UK contributing £60bn a year to the UK economy and employing

A Tory MP has been asked to step back from all activity with St John Ambulance after he confused two senior Asian ministers and allegedly said “they all look the same”. James Gray, the Conservative MP for North Wiltshire, was hosting a parliamentary reception last month to recognise the efforts of the first aid charity’s

The new charities minister has praised “heroic” charity staff and volunteers for their work during the coronavirus pandemic.  It emerged on Friday that Nigel Huddleston, the MP for Mid Worcestershire and who already has responsibility for sport, tourism, heritage and the Commonwealth Games, had also been given the charities brief.  Launching a new report today