Charity

The chief executive of a children’s health charity has said she is to retire after 17 years in the role.  Anne Keatley-Clarke said she was stepping down from the Children’s Heart Federation, where she took up the top job in 2005. She will be succeeded by Rajwant Kaur-Singh, who is deputy chief executive at the

Greenpeace UK has appointed joint executive directors to lead the organisation. Areeba Hamid and Will McCallum will be permanent successors to John Sauven, who retired earlier this year after more than 30 years at Greenpeace. They will take up their roles in October, replacing interim boss Pat Venditti. It is the first time the top

Youth charities in England are being invited to apply for grants worth millions of pounds through a government funding scheme. The Youth Investment Fund plans to distribute more than £300m in capital and revenue funding to charities, community groups and local councils over the next three years, according to a statement from the Department for

The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation incurred legal costs of more than £10m related to the divorce of its founders, new figures show. The charity’s latest accounts, which cover the year ending December 2021, show that CIFF incurred total legal costs of $12.9m, or £10.6m, between 2014 and 2021.  The figure covers “governance issues” linked to

The youth charity The Challenge is set to be dissolved owing more than £3m to its creditors, documents show. Hundreds of other voluntary organisations will lose out on money owed to them, two and a half years after The Challenge went into administration. The latest financial details, filed today by the company in charge of

Almost one in six regular donors plan to give less money to charity over the next three months, new research has found. The data, published as part of the Cost of Giving Monitor from the creative firm Good Agency, shows that more than half of the public – 52 per cent – said their personal

A charity worker has received a suspended prison sentence after stealing tens of thousands of pounds from her employer.  Bethan Hopkins, who was a finance manager at Safer Wales, was handed a two-year sentence, suspended for 18 months, at Cardiff Crown Court earlier this week. The court confirmed that Hopkins, who is 42 and lives

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Income at St John Ambulance rose by about 25 per cent last year as the charity recovered from the impact of the coronavirus crisis. The accounts for the year to the end of December 2021, published this week with Companies House, showed the charity raised £114m, compared with £92.2m in 2020. Income generated by training

International development charities should face a “big reckoning” on their ties to racism, an event heard today. Khadijah Diskin, an academic specialising in empire and decolonisation, said the third sector as a whole has “so much to own up to” on its historical and ongoing links to empire and violence. Diskin was speaking on the

Young charity volunteers risk being overwhelmed by a “triple burden” of work, family life and poor mental health, the government has warned. The report, which is called Volunteering Journeys and was published yesterday by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, says events in the UK and around the world “were affecting confidence and

UK charities spend £900m a year applying for grants, research has found. The burden is especially heavy for small and medium-sized charities, which can end up dedicating more than one-third of their resources to preparing fundraising bids, according to the think tank Pro Bono Economics. The findings are included in PBE’s paper, Giving Pains, which

A “parallel cost-of-living crisis” could force racially minoritised staff out of the charity sector, the former head of the Small Charities Coalition has warned. In a post on LinkedIn, Elizabeth Balgobin warned that the sector had not done enough to recognise how income and wealth inequality already affects ethnic minority staff or the pressure it

A project to release funds from inactive charities in Wales could direct £12m to good causes, the Charity Commission has said. A similar programme in England outperformed initial predictions by releasing nearly £80m to charities. The regulator has launched the Revitalising Trusts Programme in Wales today, and said it would work with Community Foundation Wales

Forty-one members of staff at Save the Children International lost their jobs over abuse, bullying and other safeguarding concerns last year. Another six employees were suspended from their jobs after the charity investigated their behaviour. The numbers are included in the charity’s annual accounts for the year to the end of December 2021, which were

A former senior Downing Street official has been named as the next director of services at the homelessness charity Crisis. Juliet Mountford, who will take up the role in September, runs the Operational Delivery Profession within the Civil Service, which provides delivery support in an emergency or during surge in demand. She has worked in

The National Lottery Community Fund has given its Climate Action Fund an £8m boost, and is inviting applications from charities with projects focused on tackling climate change  It is seeking submissions from community projects across the UK that are focused on the link between nature and the climate. Groups can apply for up to £1.5m

A £4m fund has been launched to improve the way that research bodies work with charities and community groups, amid claims that local expertise can be disrespected and co-opted by universities and other institutions. Coalitions of charities will be able to apply for up to £25,000 of seed funding to make plans for engaging with

Accounts for the National Children’s Bureau show the charity’s income dropped by almost 25 per cent in the most recent financial year. Documents filed with the Companies House show the charity’s total income for the year to March 2022 was £12.4m, down from £16.2m the previous year.  However, the charity finished 2021/22 with a surplus

Greenpeace UK has launched two initiatives to advocate for social, racial and environmental justice, after its latest report, published with the race equality think tank The Runnymede Trust, found that the climate emergency is rooted in colonialism. Grassroots community groups advocating for social, racial and environmental justice will be able to apply to the Movement

A new report has found widespread levels of fatigue and anxiety among those who volunteered during the pandemic. The latest research by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, which was published today, also found that some individuals have carried a sense of guilt after the height of the Covid-19 crisis. The report, Time Well Spent:

Small charities were forced to return more than £1m to the government after running out of time to spend emergency Covid-19 funding, it has emerged. The National Lottery Community Fund has confirmed that grants worth about £1.3m, which were supposed to help small charities cope during the pandemic, were instead refunded to the Department for

The Charity Commission has appointed interim managers to take over the running of Shire Way Community Association, six months after announcing a statutory inquiry into the charity. SWCA has been left “unable to function” after all its trustees resigned following the announcement of the inquiry, the regulator said in a statement.  A spokesperson for the

Cancer Research UK recorded an income of £668.5m in the year to March 2022, up 15 per cent on 2020/21. The growth was driven in large part by the recovery of CRUK’s trading, which made £111.5m for the charity compared with about £48m the year before. Coronavirus restrictions meant that charity shops were closed for

Third Sector, the UK’s leading subscription magazine for the voluntary and not-for-profit sector, will end its print run in October and transition to a digital-first offering. The title launched in the early 1990s, as a fortnightly magazine featuring sector news and an extensive recruitment section. It was acquired by Haymarket Media Group in 2002 and

The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund said it was the victim of “unfounded” claims about its work, after the Charity Commission decided not to take any action against the organisation. The commission said yesterday that it had “no further regulatory role” after reviewing the circumstances in which PWCF accepted millions of pounds in cash originally

The live streaming website Twitch has launched a new feature to make charity fundraising easier on its platform. The built-in Twitch Charity feature is designed to make it simpler for streamers to raise money for charity and easier for viewers to give, with a designated “donate to charity” button. Twitch users have been able to

Charity donations by the wealthiest philanthropists have increased in the last two years, according to research. The median average amount given away by people with a net worth of more than £1m was £500 in the three months to June 2022, compared with £300m in the preceding quarter, researchers at The Beacontree Collective found. For

Charities can apply for grants of up to £10,000 towards work ensuring their data is managed correctly, following the launch of a new fund. The Charity and Community Fund, launched by the DPO Centre, will provide voluntary organisations with discounted consultancy services to ensure their data protection work meets required standards. The fund is worth

A 145-year-old charity has changed its name to remove barriers between the organisation and its beneficiaries. Oxfordshire Association for the Blind has rebranded as MyVision Oxfordshire following a consultation with its members and supporters, who told the charity they wanted a name that was more “modern, positive and friendly”. The charity works with people living with