Charity

The Charity Commission has opened a regulatory compliance case into St Andrew’s Healthcare after the charity’s chief executive retired abruptly and it was announced that almost 300 patients would be moved from the charity’s hospital. The regulator said it was assessing concerns about safeguarding and the financial viability of the major healthcare charity. Vivienne McVey

The government has appointed Kate Sayer to the board of the Charity Commission.  Sayer spent almost 36 years as a partner at the charity accountancy firm Sayer Vincent before joining Oxfam GB in January 2020 to lead a new integrity and ethics team as part of the charity’s response to its safeguarding crisis, a role

Charities are not investing enough in themselves, particularly around trustee development, an event has heard. Speaking at the Findings From Third Sector Trends event in central London yesterday, Tony Chapman, professor at St Chad’s College in Durham University, said a new report of the same name published at the event showed charities were autonomous and

An assessment of the state of civil society around the globe finds successes despite a narrowed environment Originally Posted Here

The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into a poverty relief charity over financial mismanagement concerns related to a £900,000 loan between the charity and a trustee’s family member. The regulator began its engagement with The Allen Trust, based in Surrey, after the charity’s accounts for the year ending March 2024 showed a balance of

The rise could be driven by more smaller organisations facing financial distress, researchers say Originally Posted Here

Trustees are ‘materially different’ from charity employees, the judge found; but the claimant says he will appeal Originally Posted Here

The executive director of the Living Wage Foundation is to step down after 10 years to become chief executive of the accreditation body Investors in People.  Katherine Chapman will leave the LWF, which campaigns for fair pay for workers and is part of the community organising charity Citizens UK, in April.  The foundation said Chapman

It comes after Kaye Adams left the BBC after claims of bullying behaviour; Adams denies the allegations Originally Posted Here

The infrastructure body says the ‘difficult’ changes were made to improve efficiency and effectiveness of its services Originally Posted Here

Macmillan Cancer Support has received more than £20m through its longstanding partnership with the National Garden Scheme. The scheme, which raises funds for nursing and health organisations by opening thousands of private gardens to the public, has been supporting Macmillan since 1984. “This extraordinary generosity helps fund our vital services, ensuring that from the moment

The Charity Commission wanted scrutiny of recommendations by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Originally Posted Here

Children’s charity to rebrand and leave international federation over differing values SOS Children’s Villages UK will change its name and withdraw from its international federation, in what the chief executive described as a “values-led decision”. The UK charity, which has been part of SOS Children’s Villages Federation since it was founded more than 50 years

Financial competition between charities can lead to exclusion, exceptionalism and “a run for the bottom”, the co-founder of the Terrence Higgins Trust has warned. Speaking on the Third Sector Podcast, Rupert Whitaker described collaboration as “utterly essential” in a charity’s quest to support its beneficiaries, regardless of its size. “Helping smaller charities to do things

Claire Hill-Dixon, co-chief executive of the Young Trustees Movement, has left the charity. Hill-Dixon, who has worked for the organisation since 2023, stepped down this week to “explore new opportunities closely aligned with her other passions around community and nature recovery”, a spokesperson said. She joined the Young Trustees Movement as chief executive, but later

Fewer than 20 per cent of public comments under AI images engaged with the intended charitable cause, researchers find Originally Posted Here

Donors in London give the most to charities on average and engagement in the city is more “visible and participatory” compared with other regions, new research has found. The brand monitoring tool CharityTracker this week published its nations and regions report exploring how charitable engagement varies across the UK. The study, which is based on

A national youth arts charity has implemented a joint leadership model, appointing its chief executive and deputy chief as co-leaders. Artswork has announced that from April, Louise Govier and Annabel Cook will become co-chief executives, each working a four-day week – with their out-of-office time falling on differing days. Govier previously worked a five-day week

A company fundraising for school sporting events committed six breaches of the Fundraising Code of Practice, with four education trusts also having broken a further two sections of the code relating to third-party fundraisers, the regulator has concluded. An investigation by the Fundraising Regulator found that Sportivater, a commercial organisation that arranges sponsored sporting events

The Lewes House of Friendship has merged into Age UK East Sussex in bid to strengthen local services, share expertise and ensure long-term support for older people, the charities said. The HOF will retain its name and logo and is now part of wider services on offer from Age UK East Sussex following the merger,

Marsha Blake has been promoted to chief executive of the young people’s charity St Basil’s after more than 25 years at the organisation. Blake is director of progression at the Birmingham-based charity and will succeed Jean Templeton, who is retiring after 26 years as chief executive. Templeton will support Blake during a transition period before

The Charity Commission opened a statutory inquiry into the charity in January Originally Posted Here

An employment tribunal partly found in favour of Dr Anna Williams after it ruled her ‘far from ideal’ behaviour did not amount to gross misconduct Originally Posted Here

Kristina Murrin is set to step down as chief executive of The King’s Foundation after nearly three years at the helm. The outgoing chief executive led the charity through an exciting period of expansion, the charity said, announcing her plans to leave her post. When asked when Murrin would leave the organisation and about her

Vladimir Potanin’s failure to resign ‘jeopardised the charity’s ability to operate’, a first-tier tribunal ruled Originally Posted Here

The charity is seeking to exit the residential care sector Originally Posted Here

The chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament has been appointed to the board of the Scottish charity regulator OSCR, social justice secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville has announced.  Ellie Craig’s four-year term will run from 1 April this year to 31 March 2030. The role will be part-time, with a commitment of two days each month for

‘Largest philanthropy campaign by UK charity’ reaches £250m mark Cancer Research UK’s ‘More Research, Less Cancer’ campaign has raised £250m in two years, the charity has announced. The campaign, which CRUK said was the largest run by any UK charity, was launched in 2024, aiming for a target of £400m in five years. The campaign

Trustees’ management of fundraising should align with how they minimise fraud at their charity, the Charity Commission has urged. The call comes after the regulator published its updated guidance on emergency appeals this week, alongside refreshed fundraising guidance published earlier this month. Mazeda Alam, head of guidance and practice at the regulator, said in a

Tim Holmes has been appointed as the interim chief of Muslim Aid, following the departure of the charity’s former leader, Khalid Javid. In a statement, the charity said Holmes joined Muslim Aid at the end of January after Javid, who had been in post for three years, “decided to resign from his role”.  The charity