Charity

A not-for-profit organisation that supports LGBTQI refugees and asylum seekers has had to make “a number of changes” in response to increased hostility in the past two years, its chief executive has said. Sebastian Rocca told the Third Sector Podcast how Micro Rainbow has adapted its operations and increased online monitoring to protect staff and

Total income for charities in England and Wales increased by £6bn to more than £100bn in 2024, new figures show. The Charity Commission’s annual return analysis for 2024 shows that total gross income reached £102bn in 2024 compared with £96bn in the previous year, while spending was up to £101bn, from £94bn. The £1bn surplus for

Charities are being invited to apply for £5m of funding to support a “transformational and groundbreaking project”.  The People’s Postcode Lottery has opened applications for its Dream Fund, which supports charities to develop innovative and ambitious solutions to challenging problems.  The PPL said the fund, which is in its 15th year, would make a single

The Charity Commission has closed its compliance case into the Alan Turing Institute after issuing the charity with regulatory advice and guidance. The regulator opened its case into the charity, which is the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, in August after a group of staff submitted a whistleblowing complaint. In the

The LGBTQ+ sexual health charity Metro is to close at the end of March with the loss of more than 60 jobs. Metro has worked with anyone experiencing issues related to sexuality, identity, gender and diversity to provide support with sexual and reproductive health for more than four decades. In a statement today, the charity

The environment for charity campaigning is “worse now than ever before”, a new report has warned.  The annual campaigner survey, conducted by the Sheila McKechnie Foundation, found that 69 per cent of campaigners surveyed said the campaigning landscape had become tougher over the past year, the highest level recorded since the survey was first carried

The new identity will unite a ‘bit of a confused brand’, according to the charity’s chief executive Originally Posted Here

The Hatzola Northwest Trust has raised nearly £1.5m in just over a day after four of its ambulances were destroyed in an arson attack. The charity’s ambulances were set alight this week in what the Metropolitan Police are treating as an antisemetic hate crime. Officers were called by the London Fire Brigade at about 1:45am

The charity committed six breaches relating to monitoring, due diligence and responsibilities, while two agencies committed breaches relating to improper fundraiser behaviour by Emily Harle Originally Posted Here

The Church of England has dropped plans to create a new charity to unify two national church bodies after the move failed to gain parliamentary approval.  The church’s national assembly last year voted in favour of plans to replace the Archbishops’ Council and Church of England Central Services – which oversees a wide range of the church’s

The charities say they want to expand their reach and become more sustainable Originally Posted Here

The £4m estate of the comedian Sean Hughes has been awarded to Shelter after a prolonged legal delay over his will. Hughes, who died in 2017 at the age of 51, intended to leave the charity his £1.8m home in Glasslyn Road, Crouch End, and two additional properties nearby in north London valued at a

The charity says public interactions are ‘largely positive’ but staff or volunteers sometimes face unacceptable behaviour by Dami Adewale Originally Posted Here

Charities have urged the UK government to reverse “devastating” aid cuts, after the Foreign Office revealed regional programmes in Africa and the Middle East will be the hardest hit. The government announced in February last year the UK’s Official Development Assistance budget would be slashed from 0.5 per cent to just 0.3 per cent of

The charity’s chief executive says it is seeking solutions to local problems in its income generation efforts Originally Posted Here

Charity donations down by almost 10 per cent last year as donor numbers fall to record low UK Giving, published by the Charities Aid Foundation, shows the British public donated an estimated £14bn in 2025, down from £15.4bn in the previous year. It is the first fall in the total given since 2021 and the

The Association of Charitable Organisations has changed its logo to better suit the digital world and become less corporate. The membership body, which is for charities providing financial and wellbeing support to individuals, said its previous logo had become “outdated and was not fit for purpose in a digital world”. It added that the former

The annual Foundation Practice Report scrutinises a sample of 100 grantmakers on diversity, accountability and transparency Originally Posted Here

About 2,000 volunteers will also move over as the charity takes on the four-year contract Originally Posted Here

Sara Thakkar plans to ‘step back to plan my next chapter and to support my family’ Originally Posted Here

The chair of the Arts Council England independent review has warned MPs that it will be a “disaster” if the grantmaker just pays “lip service” instead of introducing fundamental reform. The Labour peer Baroness Margaret Hodge of Barking led an independent review of the grantmaker, commissioned by the government, resulting in the publication of a

An RSPCA branch’s animal centre has been temporarily saved after a fundraiser raised more than £50,000 in less than a month. RSPCA Lancashire East said last month that it would have to stop running its animal centre in Accrington at the end of March without extra funding, putting eight jobs at risk. The charity said

An end-of-life charity has confirmed it will cut more than 30 staff in a bid to protect its future and ensure charitable funds are used to make the most impact, its chief executive has said. St Wilfrid’s Hospice in Eastbourne, East Sussex, confirmed it will stop providing domiciliary care to people at home after a staff

Jan Sheldon is to retire as chief executive of the homelessness charity St Martins after eight years leading the charity. St Martins launched as a night shelter more than 50 years ago and has developed into an organisation that supports about 300 people. Sheldon, who will step down from the charity in May, said: “It

The Charities Aid Foundation’s UK Giving report warns that charities must work ‘harder than ever to earn the attention, trust and commitment of potential donors’ Originally Posted Here

The organisation’s chair says Rob Thomas’ behaviour ‘fell below the standards we expect’ Originally Posted Here

Charities relying on stretched local authority funding need to work more closely with their peers to find solutions to collective challenges, the chief executive of Mind in Croydon has stressed. Speaking on the Third Sector Podcast, Emma Turner said the unfavourable funding situation meant attitudes around cross-charity collaborations needed to change. “In my experience of

NCVO cuts most of its practical support team in favour of ‘digital-first’ model The membership body’s practical support team, which ran its Small Charities Helpdesk, has mostly been cut, with plans to replace the function with a “scalable, digital-first model”, Third Sector has learned. The new function will focus on signposting and triaging, rather than

Richard Hawkes has previously led Scope, the British Asian Trust and Sense International Originally Posted Here