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Parkrun’s founder has resigned from the charity’s trustee board and joined the senior management team, as the organisation overhauls its governance. Paul Sinton-Hewitt, who organised the first Parkrun event in 2004, was a founding trustee of Parkrun Global when it became a charity in 2017.  Parkrun Global confirmed that he would now sit on the

One-third of Comic Relief staff are being affected by a restructure intended to help the charity implement a new strategy.  The charity has begun a month-long consultation with 55 of its approximately 165 staff over a reorganisation that will result in the loss of some jobs alongside the creation of others.  Comic Relief said it

Cash donations to the Natural History Museum more than doubled in 2021/22, as it continued to recover from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The latest accounts for the museum, which is an exempt charity, show it received £6.3m in public donations in the year to March 2022, up from £2.6m in 2020/21. The figure

The cancer support charity Look Good Feel Better has appointed a new chief executive. Mark Flannery, executive director of income generation at St Gemma’s Hospice, will take up his new role next month. Before joining St Gemma’s he worked for the Skills Network, which provides advice and training. He succeeds Sarahjane Robertson, who left Look

Charities have been encouraged to strengthen their bullying policies to deal with unacceptable behaviour in the voluntary sector. In a statement today, the Charity Commission said it expected trustees to handle issues arising in their charities, but warned it would “intervene where there are concerns that trustees are not complying with their responsibilities”. The regulator

A charity linked to Cancer Research UK has apologised after a prospective researcher was told their application had been rejected because they were Russian. The Glasgow-based Beatson Institute, which specialises in the biology of cancer, said it had apologised to the researcher after a “misunderstanding” caused by complex visa rules and international sanctions. The charity

Institutional racism was “allowed to fester” at the global health charity Wellcome, a report has found.  An evaluation of its anti-racism programme, released by the UK’s richest charity, found that “limited progress” had been made since the work started in 2020, with some staff worried that the agenda had lost momentum. One in five black

Kidney Wales is in talks with race organisers after the cancellation of a running event that has raised more than £250,000 for the charity in previous years. Ross Evans, managing director of the health charity, told Third Sector the charity was “truly saddened” that the event, scheduled for 4 September, was not going ahead. Kidney Wales

One of the country’s largest social care charities lost 155 members of staff last year because of government rules requiring carers to have received the Covid-19 vaccination. The employees at the Order of St John Care Trust, some of whom resigned “in anticipation of the deadline” to get vaccinated, represented 3 per cent of the charity’s

Third Sector has launched an anonymous online survey that invites people working in the voluntary and not-for-profit sector to share their views on and experiences of sexual harassment in fundraising.  In recent years, the title has reported extensively on allegations of sexual harassment perpetrated against fundraisers and complaints over the handling of sexual misconduct.  As

The Charity Commission has opened a compliance case into a grant-maker that received £1.5m in unsecured loans from one of its trustees. The Barrowman Foundation was founded in 2017 and is funded solely through money lent by its founder, the businessman Doug Barrowman. The regulator said it had identified concerns with the charity, but did not

Amnesty International UK has defended the organisation’s latest research into the Ukrainian war after Amnesty’s Ukraine chief resigned in protest at its release. The research, which was published by AIUK and other Amnesty offices around the world last week, says the Ukrainian military has “turned civilian objects into military targets” by working from populated areas

The Charity Commission has disqualified two trustees from a charity that has faced three inquiries since 2017. The commission said Hartley Hanley and Mike Bisson, both trustees at the Moss Side and Hulme Community Development Trust, were responsible for “persistent and prolonged” failures at the charity. The commission first contacted the Manchester-based charity five years ago,

The NSPCC’s trading arm contributed more than £1m to the charity in 2021/22 as the company’s revenues returned to pre-pandemic levels. The donation is nearly double the amount made the previous year, when trading and fundraising events were affected by months of coronavirus restrictions. The figures are included in the NSPCC Trading Company accounts for

A leading social care charity has urged the government to provide additional funding for the sector, which it says is “teetering on a precipice”.  Hft, which provides support to people with learning disabilities and their families, issued the warning after MPs on the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Select Committee told the government that social

Connect For Life, Ignite Hubs and the community interest company Give Your Best are among the charities in the running to win a special recognition award at the 2022 Third Sector Awards.  The awards, which recognise the achievements of charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises, feature 32 categories, including Fundraising Team of the Year and

Charity trustees will have more freedom to make payments if disputes arise over legacy gifts, under legal changes coming into force later this year. Boards will be free to make payments of up to £20,000 without needing to consult the Charity Commission, depending on the size of the organisation, if trustees feel they have a

The RNIB has increased its senior leadership team from 12 to 16 people as part of a top-level overhaul.  The sight-loss charity said the move, which has also involved a renaming of previous SLT positions, was “designed to give us the logical structure to deliver our ambitious new strategy, achieve our vision and deliver impact

Charities should be audited to “weed out” organisations that promote extremism, the Conservative Party leadership candidate Rishi Sunak has said.  Sunak, who is campaigning in the race to become the next prime minister, said this week that “there have been too many examples of publicly-funded charities” accused of supporting extremist ideologies. Asked to name one

Unite the Union has threatened to take legal action against the social care charity Hestia as part of a row over union activity. Unite said the charity’s management contacted some Unite members at Hestia shortly after the union put in a pay claim in June.  The letters threatened staff with potential disciplinary procedures if they

A health charity has appointed a new leader following the retirement of its founding chief executive. Jonathan Pearce took over as chief executive of the York-based charity Antibiotic Research UK this week. He has worked in the charity sector for 20 years, and previously led voluntary organisations including Lymphoma Action and the blood cancer charity

Firms run by a trustee at the Victoria & Albert Museum hosted a further five private events at the venue without the permissions needed under charity rules, it has emerged. The V&A confirmed that three companies linked to Ben Elliot, a trustee who is also chair of the Conservative Party, arranged the events between 2017

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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