Charity

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

A London-based charity has apologised afer it was found to have perpetuated a long-term culture of institutional racism that led to African and Caribbean communities feeling excluded, discriminated against, and disenfranchised.  The Westway Trust was set up to manage 23 acres of land under the Westway elevated dual carriageway of the A40 in west London after

Three charities have been forced to close by the regulator in Northern Ireland after a “god-ordained” trustee made payments called “love offerings”, and loaned himself £15,000 of charitable funds to cover personal car financing. The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland says in a statutory inquiry report published this week that Glenn Dunlop was the founder

In the Third Sector Podcast’s second weekly episode, editor Emily Burt and features and analysis writer Rebecca Cooney look at Kids Company. When Kids Company collapsed in 2015, it sent shockwaves through the charity sector. Camila Batmanghelijdh, the founder and former chief executive of the now defunct children’s charity, along with former trustees of the

The Northern Ireland charity regulator is facing an independent review of its performance after a report found concerns with how it had handled complaints from a member of the public. In a written question in the Northern Ireland Assembly, Traditional Unionist Voice party leader Jim Allister asked the communities minister, Carál Ní Chuilín, what action

A former trustee at defunct charity Kids Company advised his 900,000 peers across the sector to resign if it is assumed they must ensure the solvency of their charities. Vincent O’Brien, who had been a trustee at the charity since 2007, was being cross-examined by defence teams at the High Court yesterday in a session

The sanitation charity WaterAid International has appointed Andrew McCracken as its next global director. McCracken, who has spent the past six years as chief executive of the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland, was previously global fundraising director at the development charity Tearfund. He succeeds Ken Caldwell, who retired in April. McCracken is a board member

Save the Children UK has promised that people of colour will make up at least a quarter of its senior management team by the end of 2021 as part of a drive to make it an anti-racist organisation.  A strategy document called Free to be Me, and published today, says the 101-year-old charity had, in some

The latest version of the Charity Governance Code has been published, with updated guidance on equality, diversity and inclusion.  The code, which sets out seven principles of good governance practice for charity trustees, was first published in its current form in 2017, replacing the Code of Good Governance.  The latest version, published today, has been

The founder of a rehabilitation charity has been disqualified from senior positions after she was paid tens of thousands of pounds in unauthorised payments and almost £300,000 went to a company of which she was a director.  The Charity Commission said it had also secured a disqualification order against a former manager of the Livingstone

The vice-president of children’s charity Barnardo’s has hit back at a group of Conservative MPs who dismissed the charity’s talk about white privilege as “ideological dogma”. The charity faced a flood of racist comments after it began tweeting about white privilege and what could be done to tackle it and create a fairer society following

Fewer than three in 10 charity leaders believe the government will value their expertise when it comes to future crisis planning, a new survey suggests. A poll of UK charity chief executives conducted by the Charities Aid Foundation found 29 per cent thought their expertise would be seen as an important resource when it came

The lobbying act must go so charities can speak truth to power and collaborate with the government for the common good, according to a senior opposition MP. Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was speaking at the launch of the Law Family Commission on Civil Society, hosted by the research charity Pro

Charities should be given a special VAT rate on purchases in order to reduce the almost £2bn a year burden faced by the sector, a new report suggests. Research commissioned by the Charity Tax Group shows that irrecoverable VAT costs charities £1.8bn a year, part of a total tax contribution made by UK charities of