Charity

The homelessness charity Emmaus UK has appointed Charlotte Talbott as its next chief executive. Talbott will succeed Simon Grainge, who stepped down at the end of May after five years in the role, saying it was the right time to move on. Talbott has spent the past four years at the homelessness charity The Connection

The Charity Commission has apologised to a whistleblowing charity after a review found aspects of its compliance case “disproportionate” and identified a number of other shortcomings. In April 2019, trustees of Compassion in Care made a complaint to the regulator about its handling of the case relating to the charity’s governance.  The charity, which was

The transgender young people’s support charity Mermaids has been fined £25,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office after personal information relating to 550 people was available online for almost three years. The regulator also concluded that the charity had a “negligent approach towards data protection with inadequate policies and a lack of training for staff”. The

A football charity has been told to pay almost £14,000 to a former employee after an employment tribunal ruled he had been victimised.  An employment tribunal ruling published this week shows that Colchester United’s Football in the Community charity was ordered to pay Mark Harris, a former community development officer at the charity, a total

The Daily Mail has agreed to pay £15,000 plus legal costs to a Muslim charity it falsely accused of colluding with people smugglers. It is the second title to make a payment to the humanitarian charity the Al-Khair Foundation in relation to articles published in December about Somali migrants trying to reach Europe. In April,

A Christian charity is being examined by the Charity Commission after material on its website was unearthed that promotes misogynistic messages, including blaming women for rape. The National Secular Society said it had raised concerns about the Holiness Revival Movement Worldwide Europe, also known as Horemow Europe, with the Charity Commission in June. The NSS,

The hearing loss charity RNID has sold off its care and support services to a private care provider in a move that will transfer almost 600 staff from the charity.  The RNID first mooted plans to sell off its care services at the end of 2019 after it revealed it wanted to pay off its debts

Max Woosey, the 11-year-old who has been sleeping in a tent for more than a year to raise funds for North Devon Hospice, will sleep out at London Zoo to raise awareness of an annual fundraiser for Action for Children.  Action for Children said it had arranged for Woosey to pitch his tent near the

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution had defended its actions from accusations that is has become “a taxi service for illegal immigration”. The search and rescue charity drew criticism over the weekend after some newspapers published images of its lifeboats returning from saving people who had been attempting to cross the English Channel to the UK.

The Salvation Army has been the subject of a ransomware attack.  The charity declined to give precise details on the nature and extent of the incident but said it had reported the matter to the Charity Commission and the Information Commissioner’s Office, indicating that data might have been stolen.  One data security expert said anyone

The winners of the 2021 Purpose Awards have been announced.  The awards, which are run by Third Sector and sister titles PRWeek and Campaign, recognise campaigns that use creative ideas successfully to further positive causes, and acknowledge the organisations behind them. The Climate Store by Prime Weber Shandwick for Felix won a hattrick of awards,

The National Theatre managed to increase its spending on charitable activities by £10m in 2019/20, despite subsequently having to make 150 redundancies as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. According to its latest accounts for the year to the end of March 2020, the charity completed a restructure in October last year that resulted in

The National Lottery Community Fund has declined to comment on the government commissioning a conflict management firm to examine the grant-maker’s working practices and culture. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has hired CMP Resolutions to conduct an inquiry into the leadership and organisational culture at the grant-giver, Third Sector understands. In March,

The National Trust has asked for a retraction and complained to the press regulator after The Spectator magazine published an article containing what the charity said were “plain ludicrous” allegations. An article headlined “‘Fear and bullying’ at the National Trust” (£), by Charles Moore, was published in the weekly magazine yesterday containing a number of

Youth charities can apply for up to £50,000 from a £1.4m fund to help them reopen and bring their services back to pre-pandemic levels.  The funding is being provided by the Julia & Hans Rausing Trust in partnership with UK Youth. The fund aims to ensure that grassroots youth organisations that have suffered due to

The Metropolitan Police have been accused of acting “unlawfully” after a number of employees were arrested at the arts and architecture charity Antepavilion.  The charity offers studio and art exhibition display spaces, as well as occasional event and performance space, from a mixed-used building in Hackney, north-east London. The building also includes residential units.  Two

A new £50m fund will support black and minoritised community charities and grassroots groups in England to receive funding and support that has previously been difficult for them to access.  The Phoenix Way is being run by the National Lottery Community Fund and the Ubele Initiative, which is an African diaspora-led social enterprise that aims to build

A more frequent revaluation of business rates could be beneficial and provide cost savings to charities in England, membership bodies have said.  The government yesterday unveiled proposals that it said would make the business rates system fairer and more streamlined with more frequent property revaluations. Under the plans, revaluations of non-domestic properties would take place

Lloyds Bank has apologised and compensated a charity that provides grants to medical students in Zimbabwe after poor communication left it without access to tens of thousands of pounds. The UK-based Doctors of Tomorrow in Zimbabwe funds scholarships for underprivileged medical students in Harare and Bulawayo to pursue their medical studies.  The charity said a

Funds raised by FXhome – creators of free video editing software HitFilm Express – during their summer sale will go toward protecting endangered species, and fighting the exploitation of defenseless animals. London, UK (June 29, 2021) – From now until July 6th, 15% of all proceeds from sales at the fxhome.com store will be pledged

The waterways and wellbeing charity the Canal & River Trust has announced it is taking its face-to-face fundraising programme in-house. In a statement, the charity said it was looking to step up its post-lockdown fundraising activity by advertising an initial 24 roles, which would be recruited over the next few months. The charity was not

The Charity Commission recorded a better than average level of sickness absence last year, new figures show.  A request made by Third Sector using freedom of information legislation found that the total number of days lost to sickness was 2,013 for the 2020 calendar year. According to its latest accounts, the regulator employed 421 staff

The Times and the Mail Online have apologised to The British Academy of Film and Television Arts and its chair after making false allegations about his relationship with the actor and filmmaker Noel Clarke.  The arts charity took legal action for defamation against the two publications following their coverage of allegations of misconduct against the

The medical charity Operation Smile UK has promoted Mairéad O’Callaghan to the top role of executive director. O’Callaghan joined the organisation in 2011 as country manager for Operation Smile Ireland before becoming head of individual and legacy giving for the UK and Ireland in 2017. She succeeds Karen Jaques, who has been appointed to the

Seventy per cent of students plan to volunteer this summer, new research suggests.  The survey, published by the volunteering charity Royal Voluntary Service, showed that almost half (47 per cent) said volunteering over the summer would give them useful and valuable experience. The research, conducted earlier this month by the polling company Censuswide with 1,000 students

Aid charities must do more to tackle exploitation and abuse, the Charity Commission has warned. The warning comes after an analysis of recent serious incident reports submitted to it identified areas of weaknesses and risk around safeguarding, the regulator said.  In an alert to 5,000 charities working outside the UK, the commission urges charities to

The retailer Tesco has been accused of increasing the asking price for a refugee charity’s headquarters by almost £50,000 before deciding not to sell.  The charity Saheliya, which supports black, minority ethnic, asylum seeker and refugee women and girls, originally asked the supermarket for an extension on its 10-year lease on the property at St

The government has been accused of an “arrogant” pattern of behaviour after it changed the way it presents its proposed spending plans on international aid. Sarah Champion, chair of the House of Commons International Development Committee chair and the Labour MP for Rotherham, said the government should show more respect for her committee by providing

MND Scotland has appointed Rachel Maitland as its chief executive. Maitland, who has been head of supply and operations for the Edinburgh-based energy company Flexitricity since 2018, will join the motor neurone disease charity in July. She was also a board member for the non-profit Paws for Progress between 2019 and 2020 and director of

Macmillan Cancer Support has set out a new four-year strategy with measures to tackle the “problem with the diversity of its workforce”.  Lynda Thomas, chief executive of the charity, says in a blog post that the charity’s new strategy will prioritise equity, diversity and inclusion and hold everyone accountable for it.  She says the charity