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The Chartered Institute of Fundraising has set up a new committee to oversee its complaints process, following concerns from members about how it dealt with safeguarding concerns.  Michele Welch, head of professional conduct at the CIoF, said in a blog post that its Professional Conduct Committee would oversee and support the CIoF’s complaints process and

The results of a vote to elect new trustees at the Actors’ Benevolent Fund have been delayed while “concerns over online voting are investigated”.  The charity had planned to announce the outcome of the elections at its annual general meeting last night but issued a statement saying the meeting had been adjourned until 29 January.

Charities must adopt a “laser-sharp focus” on their core purpose to handle challenges such as ‘culture wars’, the outgoing chief executive of the Charity Commission has said. Speaking today at the annual charity conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Helen Stephenson said many charities had been “very acutely” affected by

More than one in five financial advisers do not know how to support wealthy clients to become philanthropists, research has found. A Charities Aid Foundation survey of more than 200 independent financial advisers, wealth managers and planners found that just 5 per cent of advisers said they were very confident giving advice on philanthropy.  The

A private box at the Royal Albert Hall is being offered for sale with a guide price of £3m.  The so-called “grand tier” box, which includes 12 seats, offers some of the best views in the venue, according to the agents brokering the sale.  The lease on the box, which runs for a further 843

The Third Sector podcast has continued to probe the key issues in the voluntary sector over the past year.  From the emergence of AI and gaming in charity fundraising to the cost-of-living crisis, an in-depth examination of how the voluntary sector could respond to the climate crisis and interviews with key charity leaders, the podcast

As the charity sector approaches the end of another eventful year, it’s time to reflect on the major stories of 2023. Which articles were most popular among Third Sector’s readers? Read on to find out! 10. Nine staff sacked four weeks into 12-month contracts at health charity The eating disorder charity Beat terminated the contracts

Oxfam GB’s income passed £400m for the first time since 2019 after a more than £20m increase in funds from major appeals.  The charity’s latest accounts, for the year to the end of March, show income rose to £400.6m, up from £373m in the previous 12 months.  The charity said restricted income, which included £11.6m

A Stafford-based hospice has been trialling a new project that shows customers in its charity shops how much CO₂ has been saved by making a second-hand purchase. Katharine House Hospice, which provides palliative care services, claims it is the first charity to show sustainability savings in its shops. The charity is using till displays, provided by

Glastonbury Festival is set to donate more than £3.7m to charitable causes and campaigns before the year’s end, which the organisers described as a “record amount”. The five-day renowned music festival, hosted by Worthy Farm in Somerset, has raised funds for a range of major charities over the past year, including its long-standing charity partners

Voluntary organisations will be notified of funding decisions for the next financial year before the end of March, the Scottish government has announced. In response to a written question submitted at Holyrood, ministers said funding notifications would be issued “as soon as is practicably possible”. Colin Smyth, Scottish Labour MSP for South Scotland, asked the

A homelessness charity has been ordered to pay more than £19,000 to an employee due to unfair dismissal, an employment tribunal has ruled. Mark Wellington, who was employed as a support worker for the Simon Community from November 2012 to November 2022, claimed he was unfairly dismissed and discriminated against due to his race. After

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has updated its logo, colour palette and website as part of a £50,000 brand refresh. The foundation, which supports and undertakes social action work to end poverty in the UK, said the rebrand was to “realise a contemporary vision for the organisation and to reposition it in line with our strategic

The Charity Commission has closed down a Jewish education and heritage charity after three of its trustees were the subject of UK government sanctions.  The regulator launched an inquiry into the Genesis Philanthropy Group in March 2022, after three of its four trustees resigned due to being sanctioned by the UK government following Russian president

Nearly half of charity staff plan to look for a new employer in the next year, Third Sector Jobs has found. The Third Sector Career Insights 2023 report, which surveyed 318 charity employees, found that 46 per cent of respondents were planning to look for a new employer in the next 12 months. But only

The Charity Commission has closed down a holocaust education charity and disqualified one of its trustees from holding office in a charity for life after he was subject to government sanctions. The regulator opened an inquiry into the World Holocaust Forum Foundation in April last year, after its president and trustee Viatcheslav Kantor, was sanctioned

Younger people are more likely than their older counterparts to donate to charity over Christmas, according to new research. The Winter Donor Pulse report, published today by the fundraising technology provider Enthuse, says 80 per cent of 18-to-24-year-olds say they are planning to donate money or items over the holiday period.  This is compared with just

The National Theatre has announced that Indhu Rubasingham will become its next director and joint chief executive. Rubasingham, who has been artistic director at the Kiln Theatre in north London since 2012, will join the theatre as director designate from the spring.  She will succeed Rufus Norris, who will step down as director and chief

Rates of formal volunteering in Scotland have continued to decline since the Covid-19 pandemic, new government figures have revealed. The Scottish Household Survey, which was carried out through face-to-face interviews with about 10,500 households in Scotland, asked respondents about any volunteering they had participated in over the last 12 months. Just 22 per cent of

Paul Streets is stepping down as chief executive of the Lloyds Bank Foundation after a decade in the role. Streets will leave the grant-maker on 31 May to retire from full-time senior executive work. Appointed as chief executive of the charity in 2013, Streets steered the foundation through both the Covid-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living

Strike action at Oxfam GB has been suspended while union members consider an improved pay offer, the union Unite has announced. More than 500 Oxfam staff began strike action on 8 December in a dispute over pay.  It is the first time industrial action has been taken at Oxfam GB, which employs more than 1,800

Charity legacy income rose by 7.6 per cent to £3.9bn over the past year, according to new data. The figures, for the year to the end of June, have been published by the legacy information company Smee & Ford, based on its data and figures from accounts filed with the Charity Commission.  The data, which

A foundation set up by a sanctioned Russian billionaire opened an account with Barclays after JPMorgan Chase & Co cut ties, latest accounts show. The Potanin Foundation was established by Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin in 2006 to develop education and culture in Russia by awarding grants to support the programmes of the Vladimir Potanin Foundation,

Dame Esther Rantzen is stepping down as president of Childline due to ill-health, 37 years after she founded the charity. She announced her departure from the charity after her lung cancer progressed to stage four. The journalist and TV presenter served as a trustee for the charity until 2018, when she was appointed president. Rantzen’s

Staff costs at Barnardo’s rose by more than £20m as the charity increased its pay to account for the cost-of-living crisis, latest accounts show. The children’s charity spent £190.5m on staff costs, its most significant area of expenditure, up from £169.4m the year before. According to the accounts, for the financial year to the end

The Big Give Christmas Challenge raised a record £33m in one week, organisers have said.  The annual match-funding event attracted more than 94,000 donations for the 1,077 charities that took part.  This year’s figure is 15 per cent up on last year’s total of £28.6m and takes the amount raised since the event was first

A Christian charity has promoted its chief financial officer to the top job.  Stewardship, which facilitates tax-effective giving and support for Christian charities, said Janie Oliver would succeed Stewart McCulloch as chief executive on 1 January. McCulloch has been the chief executive of the charity since August 2018 and is leaving to join the debt

A group of sector experts will draw up a set of “universal principles” aimed at improving best practice in charity investment.  The Charity Investment Governance Principles project will be hosted by the Charity Finance Group and will feature representatives from the Association of Charitable Foundations, the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, the Wales Council for

The English National Opera has announced plans to create a new base in Greater Manchester, after Arts Council England told the charity it must move out of London to remain eligible for funding. In July ACE agreed a £24m grant with ENO for the 2024/26 period for the development of an artistic programme, on the

The voluntary sector has made little progress on tackling racism over the past three years despite warm words from many organisations, a new report has found. Warm Words, Cold Comfort: UK Civil Society’s Ongoing Racism Problem, which has been published today by the charity leaders body Acevo and Voice4Change England, is the first piece of