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expressed his opposition to the move, but said the motion had been shelved because the proposal it referred to had been withdrawn.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
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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,
Contestants aged 13 and over can enter to win Their Chance to be one of 50 Grand Marshals For Live Stream Broadcast Highlighting Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF On Halloween Eve, Wonderama – the award-winning streamed family series, will live stream a first-of-its-kind virtual Halloween costume parade broadcast with 50 hometown “Grand Marshals”, music, entertainment and more featured on
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
Charity service users could be being prevented from having their say on services that affect them due to arcane tax rules, campaigners have warned. A coalition of charities, campaigners and individuals have written to Lucy Frazer, the new Financial Secretary to the Treasury, to request changes to tax and benefit rules. Campaigners have highlighted how
A group of charity leaders and a former chief executive of the Charity Commission have called on the government not to politicise the appointment of the regulator’s next chair. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is in the process of selecting a chair for the Charity Commission, with new culture secretary Nadine Dorries
The Charity Commission has no plans to introduce charges for its services or fine charities that persistently file late accounts, its interim chair has said. Ian Karet was speaking today at the Charity Law Association’s 27th annual conference, which was being held online this year. Karet struck a markedly different tone to his predecessor, Baroness
The homelessness charity St Mungo’s has been ordered to pay more than £25,000 to an employee it wrongfully dismissed after he had been attacked by a resident with two knives. An employment tribunal in February ruled that the charity wrongfully dismissed the claimant, named in the papers only as Mr M Finnerty, after deciding he
The Charity Commission has denied claims of bias in its investigative work after a charity accused the regulator of acting as an “extension of police and security services”. The claim was made following the closing of a statutory inquiry into Human Aid UK that found misconduct and/or mismanagement in the charity’s administration. The regulator opened
Faith-based charities are being invited to apply for a new £1m government fund aimed at projects that strengthen engagement between local and national government and faith groups. The Faith New Deal Pilot Fund is aimed at supporting faith-based organisations to use their resources effectively within their community and build trust between local authorities, national government
Nigel Huddleston, the sport and tourism minister, has had the charities brief added to his list of responsibilities. It means the sector returns to the position of not having its own dedicated minister after Baroness Barran was redeployed three weeks ago to the Department for Education as part of the long-running government reshuffle. Barran’s predecessor,
Foundations should stay true to their mission to avoid being dragged into culture wars and getting “beaten up in the media”, according to the chief executive of the Association of Charitable Foundations. Carol Mack made the remarks during the ACF’s annual conference yesterday in a speech on the themes of community, identity and belonging, the
The British Heart Foundation has said it hopes to raise £3m through next year’s TCS London Marathon after it was named as the event’s charity of the year. The charity said it hoped it would have 1,600 people running in the event next year, which is due to take place in October before it switches
The Probation Service is in talks with several major charities about delivering its community payback scheme, and is seeking more. The Canal and River Trust was this week named as the first charity partner to work with the government as part of a national plan to force criminals to take part in unpaid work schemes.
The LGBTQ+ charity Manchester Pride suffered an 85 per cent drop in income following the cancellation of its flagship event last year. The charity’s accounts for 2020 show its income fell from more than £3.9m in 2019 to £720,000. The charity said this was due in part to funds from its annual Pride Festival, its
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A disability charity has been ordered by an employment tribunal to pay thousands of pounds to a nurse it unfairly dismissed. A Cardiff Employment Tribunal ordered Leonard Cheshire to pay Mrs M Peiu slightly more than £3,000 after a claim of “ordinary” unfair dismissal succeeded, newly published documents show. Three other claims of detriment and
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