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Social media platforms should enforce stricter penalties for individuals who engage in hate speech or harassment online, and provide support to victims of such abuse, according to a coalition of charities. Charities Against Hate, a campaign group that includes representatives of more than 40 charities, has published 16 recommendations for social media companies to consider

The Chartered Institute of Fundraising has apologised for its response to allegations that it ignored a sexual assault complaint – but its own committee chairs are calling for the body to explain itself further. Yesterday, a group of CIoF committee chairs wrote to the membership body’s leadership expressing concerns about its handling of allegations that it

In the last year, the FXhome community has raised over $250K for good causes including Make a Wish and WaterAid. London, UK (March 15th, 2021) – FXhome has always been about making creative tools accessible to everyone, regardless of budget or skillset. By democratizing filmmaking and video creation, FXhome has become more like a community

Voluntary Service Overseas has warned it might have to cut about 200 jobs because of uncertainty surrounding an £80m government grant. The charity was awarded the Volunteering for Development grant four years ago by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. It underpins VSO’s work among nine million people. The grant supports a range of development

Funding sources are projected to decline across this sector this year as the pandemic’s impact on charities continues to be “uneven and unpredictable”, according to new research. A survey by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations with Nottingham Trent and Sheffield Hallam universities asked 600 organisations for their views on the impact of the coronavirus

Oxfam GB has been told it can resume bidding for aid funding after a three-year pause as the government announced a new programme to tackle sexual abuse in the aid sector. The Charity Commission announced last month that it had put the charity back on a standard regulatory footing after concluding that it had made

The children’s charity Lumos has appointed Peter McDermott as its next chief executive.  McDermott, who is director at the international development consultancy Fajara Associates, succeeds Sir Roger Singleton, who has been interim chief executive of the charity since September 2019.  Singleton took up the role after Georgette Mulheir switched roles to become global strategic adviser

Large-scale giving by the super-rich has done almost nothing to redistribute wealth from rich to poor and could be perpetuating social inequalities, according to new research. Researchers at the University of Bath School of Management and Newcastle University Business School found that giving by the super-wealthy had failed to significantly benefit poor countries in the

Hundreds of millions of pounds in grant funding and loans has still not been awarded from the government’s £1.6bn Culture Recovery Fund, according to the National Audit Office. Of the £830m grants and loans funding allocated to the heritage and arts sectors so far, only £495m has been paid out, according to a new report

A fundraising consultant has resigned from the Chartered Institute of Fundraising’s Standards Advisory Board over claims that the membership body failed to act on an allegation of sexual assault at one of its events.  Claire Warner made her resignation publicly in a tweet in which she also stepped down from the CIoF’s Yorkshire Regional Committee. Her

This week, features and analysis writer Rebecca Cooney and editor Emily Burt discuss what’s been happening in the charity sector over the past 10 days. They chat about what the Spring Budget offered charities and the sector’s response to it, as well as Kevin Watkins’s planned departure from Save the Children and Cancer Research UK’s

The Charity Commission has found no reason to take regulatory action against the National Trust in the wake of a storm of publicity about a report the charity published setting out its links to slavery. The report, published in September, showed connections between 93 of its historic places and colonialism and historic slavery. It sparked

Charities are being urged to provide evidence about how the sector can “unleash its potential” as part of a two-year inquiry into the future of the voluntary sector. The Law Family Commission on Civil Society is a two-year initiative that aims to examine how the potential of civil society can be unlocked across the UK.

Thousands of faith-based charities will be able to apply for a share of £42m in funding after the government confirmed a one-year extension to a grant scheme. The Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme offers funding to cover the VAT incurred in making repairs to listed buildings in use as places of worship. The grants

London UK, 9th March 2021 – In an exciting milestone for the charities sector, mGage, in partnership with Oxfam GB, has deployed its next-generation Rich Communication Services (RCS) mobile payment solution, to encourage more donations and higher levels of engagement. At a time when charities are struggling amidst the pandemic, this world-first campaign is supporting

Charity trustees want clearer, simpler guidance about reporting amid concerns that requirements are too long and complicated for those without a background in finance, new research shows. The membership body The Chartered Governance Institute surveyed 429 trustees toward the end of last year to explore the benefits and constraints of the Charities Statement of Recommended

A charity ordered to pay £75,000 in damages to a former employee has been accused of moving money from its bank account to avoid making the payment. The Glasgow-based anti-abuse charity Roshni was ordered to pay the money to Anela Anwar after an employment tribunal in August 2016. The tribunal ruled that Anwar had been

The homelessness charities Crisis and Pathway are to merge in the summer, the organisations have announced.  The charities said the move built on existing collaboration between them and would enable them to provide a “stronger, more united voice” in addressing the health and support needs of people experiencing homelessness.  The two organisations will remain separate

The hearing loss charity RNID has promoted Paul Hayward to director of fundraising.  Hayward has spent the past two years as head of public fundraising at the charity. Before joining the RNID – or Action on Hearing Loss as it was at the time, before reverting to its former name – Hayward was head of individual giving

Cancer Research UK has made two senior appointments from the private sector as part of a wider shake-up that is halving the size of its top management team. The cancer charity said it had appointed Angela Morrison as chief operating officer and Richard Newsome as chief technology officer as part of a restructure that will

Tax relief for social enterprises across the UK will be extended until April 2023, the government announced today in the Spring Budget. Chancellor Rishi Sunak said he would continue to support social enterprises that were seeking investment growth by extending the tax break, which was due to end next month, for an additional two years.

The Charity Commission has spent more than £200,000 defending itself from equal pay or race discrimination claims over slightly more than the past five years. A request made by Third Sector under the Freedom of Information Act revealed the regulator spent about £202,000 successfully defending such claims since 2016, including in the first few weeks

A disability sports charity that had the five-time gold medal-winning Olympian Sir Steve Redgrave as a patron has closed, citing difficulties including an investigation by the regulator. SportsAble, based in Maidenhead, Berkshire, announced its decision to close after 46 years in a statement on its website earlier this week. According to its latest accounts, for

The proportion of people who list children’s charities among their favourite causes has plummeted over the past decade, new figures show. The research consultancy nfpSynergy has been regularly polling members of the public on their favourite cause areas, with cancer, animals, and children and young people usually in the top three. But it said today

The Charity Commission has appointed an interim manager to a religious charity that was accused of promoting fake coronavirus protection kits.  The regulator opened a compliance case in April into The Kingdom Church GB, which runs a church in south London, after the National Secular Society said the charity had been advertising false coronavirus cleansing

This week, features and analysis writer Rebecca Cooney and editor Emily Burt discuss what the government’s road map for lifting coronavirus restrictions could mean for in-person fundraising events this year.  They look at the latest advice from the Chartered Institute of Fundraising and the Fundraising Regulator to find out what charities will need to consider when

The Spring Budget was a “huge disappointment to thousands of charities”, the shadow charities minister has declared.  Yesterday’s set-piece has been roundly criticised by charity leaders for containing little of value to voluntary sector organisations.  Comments have included claims that the government was “taking the sector for granted” and accusing senior ministers of being like

Charities in England and Wales can apply for unrestricted grants of £50,000 from the Lloyds Bank Foundation. The foundation said it would award a total of £9.5m this year to 190 small and local charities with annual incomes of between £25,000 and £1m. The fund, which opens today, is aimed at charities working to tackle

Community groups will be able to bid for up to £250,000 of government funding to take over the running of local assets as part of a new £150m initiative. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the Community Ownership Fund as part of his Spring Budget today. The £150m fund will open for applications in the summer, and

The Charity Commission has appointed an interim manager to an educational charity “to assess its future viability”, the regulator has announced.  In November, the commission said it had opened a second statutory inquiry in less than five years into the Rabia Educational Trust, which operates the Rabia Girls and Boys School in Luton, Bedfordshire, The inquiry