Charity

Almost half of UK charities expect to run out of reserves in the next year, new research indicates.  A survey of more than 250 charities commissioned by the insurers Ecclesiastical and carried out by YouGov found that 12 per cent of respondents said they expected to run out of financial reserves in the next three

Virtual Event with Musicians on November 19th, 9 AM to 5 PM EST Malvern, PA – November 19, 2020: Rajant Corporation, the provider of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, will host a fundraiser to bring awareness and donations for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), a United Nations agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid

A group of academics and privacy campaigners are calling on charities to remove advertising trackers from their most sensitive pages amid concerns they could be liable to fines running into hundreds of millions of pounds.  A report published in September by ProPrivacy, which describes itself as a privacy education and review site, found that charities

This year’s BBC Children in Need appeal has raised an additional £4m since announcing its on-the-night result, taking the total amount to more than £41m.  The charity said over the weekend that this year’s event, which culminated in a three-hour show broadcast on Friday evening, had raised just over £37m by the end of the

Marie Stopes International has changed its name to break the perceived connection to the woman whose name it carried.  The charity, which adopted her name when it was founded in 1976 in a building previously used by the Marie Stopes Mothers’ Clinic, has changed its name to MSI Reproductive Choices and unveiled a new 10-year

The National Audit Office has opened an investigation into the government’s support of charities during the Covid-19 pandemic.  The spending watchdog said it would examine how the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has distributed the £750m in emergency funding provided to help the sector through the coronavirus crisis.  The government faced heavy criticism

A poverty relief charity has been removed from the register and its founder banned after the Charity Commission concluded he had treated it like a “private business”.  An inquiry report published by the regulator says it began looking into Kenya Community Support Network in 2016 after Comic Relief suspended its grants to the charity amid

The on-the-night total for Friday’s BBC Children in Need appeal was £10m down on 2019 as coronavirus restrictions appear to have affected people’s ability to raise funds.  A shortened three-hour show on BBC One on Friday night reached a total of £37m in donations compared with £47.9m at the same stage last year.  Highlights of this

The government has rejected calls for a review into the National Trust after MPs criticised the charity for researching its properties’ links to slavery.  In a parliamentary debate yesterday about the future of the National Trust, Andrew Murrison, the Conservative MP for South West Wiltshire, criticised the charity over what he said was a “dramatic

Kids Company was issued with a winding up order over a £500,000 unpaid tax bill a year before it finally collapsed, the High Court heard yesterday.  Camila Batmanghelidjh, the founder and former chief executive of Kids Company, was giving evidence via video link for a third day as part of a case being brought by

Dozens of voluntary sector leaders have given their backing to Barnardo’s and its chief executive Javed Khan after the charity’s work to tackle white privilege was met with racist abuse.  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

More than 8,000 charities have been allocated a share of £200m in emergency funding from the Coronavirus Community Support Fund, the government has announced.  The money is being distributed by The National Lottery Community Fund as part of the government’s £750m support package for the sector announced in April. A total of 8,250 small and

Combat Stress made 41 redundancies as it grappled with a drop in income of more than a third in the last financial year.  Income at the veterans mental health charity fell from £16.4m in 2019 to £10.2m in the year to the end of March, its latest accounts show. The charity warned in January that job

The Fundraising Regulator should find a way to “significantly reduce” the cost of the Fundraising Preference Service because the number of users has declined, an evaluation of the service has recommended. The FPS, which allows people to block communications from specific charities by phone, email, text message and post, was launched by the Fundraising Regulator

The Fawcett Society and the Young Women’s Trust have begun merger talks, the two charities have announced.  They said in a statement that discussions were at an “exploratory stage” and that both organisations were in stable financial positions.  The statement said the talks would consider what the charities might achieve by merging in terms of

The disability charity Leonard Cheshire has appointed Ruth Owen as its next chief executive.  She has been chief executive of Whizz-Kidz, which provides equipment such as powered wheelchairs for disabled children and young people, since 2004.  Owen, who has been a wheelchair user since she was seven, will succeed Neil Heslop, who has become chief

The chair of the Small Charities Coalition has stepped down for personal reasons after 18 months in the role, it has emerged.  Bushra Ahmed stepped down on 16 September, according to Companies House, having taken up the role in January last year. The charity said Steven Kirkpatrick, who has been an SCC trustee since October

More than 20 per cent of charities have less than a month’s worth of expenditure in reserve, new research has found.  A paper by David Clifford of the University of Southampton and John Mohan of the Third Sector Research Centre at the University of Birmingham says that of the approximately 12,700 charities in England and

An emergency appeal by the National Trust for Scotland has raised more than £7m, the charity has revealed. Launched in June, the Save our Scotland Appeal raised £3.4m as more than 10,000 donations flooded in from all over the world before the campaign closed at the end of September. When a £3.8m support package from the

The Strengthening Charities’ Resilience with Legacies report, which was co-authored by four major charity legacy organisations, predicts an escalation in the value of gifts from wills over the next decade, and that charities’ legacy income will double in real terms over the next 30 years.  The report – produced by Remember A Charity, Legacy Foresight, the

The Geneva office of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung is today publishing the Atlas of the Stateless (French, English). It will be presented in an online conference, in which the authors of the atlas and members of the UN refugee agency will participate. The Atlas of the Stateless, which is now published in three languages (French, English and

While the majority of people agree philanthropy makes society better, almost a third of them do not believe philanthropists themselves are good for society, according to a study published today.  The report, Philanthropy Paradox: Public Attitudes and Future Prospects for Planned Giving, produced by Beth Breeze, director of the Centre for Philanthropy at the University of

The youth charity Sea Cadets has apologised to the victims of any abuse amid reports it paid half a million pounds to the targets of a former instructor alleged to have sexually abused children over four decades.  The Guardian newspaper reported that eight survivors of abuse by Peter Sherwin, who died in 2014, had received payments

A former trustee of Versus Arthritis was “surprised and disappointed” to read statements made by the charity about his resignation and said he wanted to clarify his reasons for stepping down.  The charity last week filed a serious incident report to the Charity Commission over multiple allegations of systemic racism and bullying.  According to an

The Charity Commission has defended its decision to display a remembrance poppy online after its impartiality was questioned on social media. Users noticed a poppy had appeared in the regulator’s Twitter avatar and some in the sector questioned whether it was appropriate to display a symbol so closely associated with the Royal British Legion and its

A coalition of more than 30 charity leaders has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer calling for a sector-specific job retention scheme. The letter calls on Rishi Sunak to work closely with civil society to ensure that vital work to serve communities can continue unhindered, and the millions of citizens who depend on the

The Charities Aid Foundation has defended its latest piece of research after it was accused of producing “counterintuitive” results. Last week, CAF released a report that concluded £800m more than usual had been given to charity during the UK’s spring lockdown. But in a blog post Joe Saxton, co-founder of the consultancy nfpSynergy, criticises CAF’s

The hearing loss charity the RNID has unveiled its new branding after reverting to its old name.  The charity announced last month that it would be abandoning the name Action on Hearing Loss, which it had adopted in 2011, after research showed its former title was better recognised and trusted.  Founded in 1911, the charity

The Scouts has announced plans to sell two major assets and make about 100 people redundant as it looks to plug a more than £2m hole in its finances. The coronavirus-related cuts will result in the loss of more than 30 per cent of the association’s 380-strong workforce. The savings are in addition to 50 redundancies

The Business Charity Awards, which recognise the work of people and teams behind corporate and charity partnerships, have opened to entries for 2021.  The awards will feature 25 categories, spanning sector partnerships and teams.  Two new categories will aim to reward outstanding CSR work completed during the coronavirus pandemic.  The Best Covid-19 Support Project award