Charity

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity is facing a £13m fundraising deficit after projecting a 25 per cent income drop this year, according to its latest accounts.  The charity reported a slightly smaller total income of £88.3m for the year to 31 March 2020, the accounts show. Total spending dropped from £98.6m in 2018/19 to £82.2m last

A sight-loss charity is set to receive a possible £500,000 from a legacy almost 45 years after the benefactor died, following the recovery of lost paintings seized by the Nazis in the run-up to the Second World War. The Vision Foundation said Irma Löwenstein Austin, who fled Vienna for London to escape Nazi persecution, left

An independent inquiry has rejected claims of bullying and improper conduct against the former chair of Unicef UK made by the charity’s former executive director.  Third Sector revealed in September that Sacha Deshmukh had resigned from the charity after five months in the role, alleging that he had been subjected to bullying behaviour by Douglas

Income at the charity behind the Which? brand fell by about 10 per cent last year, mainly due to the closure of its mortgage advice service, new figures show. Its latest accounts show the Consumers’ Association’s total income dropped by more than £10m year on year to just over £91m in the year to the

Heritage organisations are being invited to apply for grants of up to £3m in the latest round of funding from the government’s £1.6bn Culture Recovery Fund. Up to £300m is available in the second tranche of funds, which can be used to help organisations recover from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is open

The Charity Commission has said it is satisfied with governance changes put in place by the RSPCA and closed its long-running scrutiny of the charity.  The regulator began looking into the charity in 2014 after serious concerns were identified, including frequent changes in its leadership and a sustained reliance on trustees acting as interim chief

Income at the homelessness charity St Mungo’s rose by more than £12m last year after it secured millions in new support service contracts. The charity’s latest accounts, for the year to the end of March 2020, show total income was up from £95m in 2018/19 to a record high of £107m. Its annual income has

The chief executives of the NSPCC and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation are among the sector figures to have received top awards in the New Year Honours list.  Peter Wanless was knighted and Caroline Mason was made a dame in the annual awards, which featured gongs for hundreds of voluntary sector workers and volunteers.  Guy Weston,

Membership bodies have welcomed provisions for the establishment of a Civil Society Forum as part of the UK’s Brexit deal with the European Union.  The more than 1,200 page UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement, published last week, covers every aspect of the UK’s future relationship with the EU. Two articles under the heading “Institutional Framework” outline

Charity membership bodies have welcomed new plans to overhaul government procurement rules designed to encourage public bodies to support social issues and voluntary sector organisations. The government’s green paper, called Transforming Public Procurement and published this week, sets out plans designed to cut red tape, reduce bureaucracy and help unleash wider social benefits from public

The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust has changed its name because the Lawrence family is no longer associated with the organisation.  The equality charity, which was set up after Lawrence’s murder in 1993, yesterday unveiled its new name: Blueprint for All.  The charity said the new name recognised its growth and communicated its ongoing ambition to

St John Ambulance has strongly rejected claims from two former senior employees that there is a “pervading culture of bullying” and a widespread use of non-disclosure agreements at the organisation.  The claims come as the first aid charity’s annual accounts for 2019 reveal it had spent £1.1m on severance payments in the past two years –

The amount donated to charities on Giving Tuesday was up by almost half this year, despite the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on in-person events, new figures indicate.  The payments company Visa said that £20.2m was donated using its platform on 1 December this year, a 42 per cent increase on the equivalent figures last year. 

Oxfam GB’s income fell by more than £67m last year, leaving the poverty relief charity with a £17m deficit. The charity’s accounts for the year to 31 March 2020 show that total income fell from £434.1m to £367.4m, with total spending down from £397.5m to £384.6m. The charity said this was due to several factors,

Berlin, December 18th 2020: TERRE DES FEMMES – Menschenrechte für die Frau e. V. opens the art exhibition “UNBREAK – take a closer look & break the cycle of domestic violence” (https://cloud.achtung.de/s/g7PanPkDDnf28pe) in downtown Munich, together with the agencies thjnk and achtung! Mary, the artist Simon Berger, and the long-time TERRE DES FEMMES activist Romy

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Leader of the House of Commons, has sparked a backlash after he accused Unicef of “playing politics” in its announcement that it would help to feed children in the UK for the first time.  The charity said earlier this week that it would begin an emergency response in the UK to help

Black, Asian and ethnic minority volunteers have a poorer experience than their white counterparts, according to new research. A report published by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations explores what organisations are doing to improve the diversity of their volunteers.   Time Well Spent: Diversity and Volunteering builds on an earlier study by the NCVO from

In a bumper edition of the Third Sector Podcast, features and analysis writer Rebecca Cooney and editor Emily Burt look back over the year and celebrate the fact that it is finally drawing to a close.  Rebecca interviews Karl Wilding, chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, about his first year at the

The National Trust  has been accused in parliament of acting as a “completely unaccountable body” and breaking long-standing promises to local landholders.  During a parliamentary debate this week about the 125th anniversary of the charity, Derek Thomas, the Conservative MP for St Ives, claimed the trust was running roughshod over planning laws at the expense

The local infrastructure umbrella body Navca has named Maddy Desforges as its next chief executive.  Desforges, who will join in March from the top job at infrastructure body Voluntary Action Sheffield, will succeed Jane Ide, who stepped down last month to become chief executive of the cultural sector support charity Creative & Cultural Skills.  Desforges, who

Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the arts and science charity the RSA, is to step down after 15 years in the role.  He said in a statement today that he would leave the charity next June to focus on other projects, including writing and broadcasting, but would retain an advisory role with the RSA.  The

Two investment experts at the Wellcome Trust received benefits worth a total of more than £9m as the charity made investment gains of £3.3bn last year, latest figures show.  The grant-maker’s annual accounts, for the year to the end of September, show the highest-paid person in its investment team was awarded benefits, including salary, bonus,

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed “a deep sense of dissatisfaction with the status quo” in global philanthropy that needs to be addressed, according to new research. A report, published today by the Centre for Strategic Philanthropy at University of Cambridge Judge Business School, highlights the need to address inequalities in the philanthropic relationship between the

Charities in Northern Ireland will be able to apply for a share of more than £20m in funding from dormant bank accounts from next month. Conor Murphy, the Northern Ireland finance minister, has launched the Dormant Accounts Fund, which will provide multi-year grants of up to £100,000 to improve the sustainability of voluntary sector organisations. 

Press Release Donated RPCs, incentives for employees in most relevant roles, and support of logistics staff help to maintain food safety during the pandemic for those in need around the globe Munich, Germany, December 14, 2020: IFCO, the world’s leading provider of Reusable Plastic Containers (RPCs) for fresh food, continued to deliver on its social

Charities in Northern Ireland are being invited to prepare grant applications for up £75,000 from an emergency £11.7m government fund. Carál Ní Chuilín, the communities minister, announced the second phase of the Covid-19 Charities Fund, and is urging charities to start making application preparations before it opens on 6 January. This phase of the fund

A war of words has broken out between a learning disability charity and a union over proposed changes to staff pay and conditions.  The union Unison said more than 300 care staff at the charity Aspire Living were threatened with losing their jobs if they refused to sign up to “substantial changes to their contracts”,

Small charities and community groups are being invited to apply for grants from a £4m fund intended to help tackle loneliness.  The Local Connections Fund, which is being funded by £2m from the government and £2m from the National Lottery Community Fund, will give out hundreds of grants of between £300 and £2,500.  Charities and

Some charities could be facing a “tsunami of need” as service user referrals that have been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic begin to accelerate, a new report warns.  The report, called Small Charities Responding to Covid-19 and published today by the Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales, also warns that many charity leaders are at “significant

A group of influential Conservative parliamentarians has called for the minister for civil society to be “upgraded” to a new minister for volunteering, according to a new report on the lessons learned from the first national lockdown. The report, called Connecting Communities, was undertaken by the One Nation Conservatives parliamentary group of about 100 current