Charity

After a brief hiatus because of the coronavirus crisis, the Third Sector Podcast is back, with an episode looking at planning for the next normal in the non-profit sector.  On 18 June, Third Sector sat down with a panel of charity leaders, as part of a webinar sponsored by Salesforce.org, to discuss their approach to planning

The Prime Minister has asked the MP and former charity leader Danny Kruger to review how the government can make the most of the voluntary sector in the UK’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to the Tory MP for Devizes, Boris Johnson said he wanted to enlist Kruger’s help as the UK

A five-year old boy with prosthetic legs has raised more than £1m for Evelina London Children’s Hospital by walking 10km over the past month.  Tony Hudgell today completed his challenge to walk the distance during the month of June to raise funds for the hospital, which saved his life when he was a baby.  He

This month’s epsiode looks at planning for the next normal in the non-profit sector.  On 18 June, Third Sector sat down with a panel of charity leaders, as part of a webinar sponsored by Salesforce.org, to discuss their approach to planning for changing times and for the road to recovery.  We listen in as Allison Dufosee, chief

The Charity Commission has urged the leaders of hundreds of the UK’s largest charities to ensure their organisations are not responsible for management or governance failures that could further damage public trust in the sector.  The regulator today concluded that serious mismanagement at the RNIB exposed vulnerable children in the sight-loss charity’s care to harm

The University of Cambridge Judge Business School has launched a new centre to focus on strategic philanthropy in emerging markets. The new Centre for Strategic Philanthropy said it would examine responses to the coronavirus crisis by philanthropists and foundations in high-growth markets, including Africa, developing Asia and the Middle East, and the lasting impact of

The British Heart Foundation is facing the “biggest crisis in its 60-year history” because of the coronavirus pandemic, the charity has said. A statement from the BHF said the fall in income it was expecting because of cancelled fundraising events and the closure of its shops meant it anticipated having to halve its annual £100m

The foundation sector is heading for a “moment of reckoning” if it does not change the existing systems to make them more equitable for BAME people, leaders have been told.  Speaking at an online conference hosted by the Association of Charitable Foundations, Fatima Iftikhar of the anti-racism campaign group CharitySoWhite, said that in the foundation

The hearing loss charity Action on Hearing Loss will move out of its London headquarters and ask staff to work from home for the foreseeable future. The charity started viewing new workspaces before the government-enforced lockdown, having sold its Highbury office in December and rented it back in the interim.  But working through the coronavirus

The government and the Bank of England should provide additional support to community banking institutions in order to ensure the survival of local communities after the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report from the research and innovation charity the RSA.  The report, called The Road to Resilience: How Community Financial Services Can Help Level-up

Mary Creagh, the former Labour MP for Wakefield, has been appointed chief executive of Living Streets, the charity for pedestrians. Creagh, who lost her seat in December’s election, will succeed Joe Irvin, who retired in March after six years at the charity’s helm. During her 14 years as an MP, Creagh served as shadow Cabinet

A charity volunteering site has experienced a threefold rise in people coming forward to volunteer, in what it has described as a “silver-lining” of the pandemic. Reach Volunteering said 2,100 new people registered to volunteer on its site between April and May, compared with 750 people in the same period last year. The total number

Third Sector has launched a tracking service to help charities find sources of funding during the coronavirus pandemic.  The Covid-19 grant tracker has been set up to save fundraisers and charity professionals time by collating information on the funds available, eligibility and deadlines in one place.  The service, which is available only to Third Sector

The proportion of people giving to charity has fallen to the lowest level in a decade, new research indicates. Figures from the research consultancy nfpSynergy show that 60 per cent of the 1,000 adults it surveyed last month said they had donated to charity in the previous three months, the lowest level recorded by the

Charities are facing a £12.4bn shortfall in income for the year because of coronavirus, new figures show. A survey by three major charity umbrella bodies has found that organisations expect to see a reduction of 24 per cent in income for the year. The survey, conducted by the Institute of Fundraising, the National Council for

Liz Tait, fundraising director of the Teenage Cancer Trust is to step down.  Tait was appointed as director of fundraising at the charity in 2018, succeeding Kate Collins after the latter’s promotion to chief executive. Latest headlines Tait, who is a well-known face in the fundraising community, is also a trustee of the Institute of

Geneva, June 20, 2020 -World Refugee 2020 sees funding for refugee response plans at an all-time low. Despite the added threat of COVID-19 across all refugee hosting countries, international financial support is significantly lower than this time last year. The total amount required to respond to the 6 regional refugee response plans globally represents only

Charities are being invited to apply for a share of £500,000 in funding from the specialist insurer Ecclesiastical. The company is offering 10 grants of £50,000 through its Movement for Good Awards, which can be used for the advancement of education, skills, arts, culture or community development. Charities with an annual income of less than

Google has pledged an additional $200m (£160m) in advertising grants for not-for-profit organisations that tackle “pressing” issues such as responding to coronavirus and racial injustice. Latest headlines The move takes the amount committed to Google’s annual ad grants programme to $1bn (£800m) in 2020 and has been put forward in response to charities shifting their

The RSPCA has proposed making up to 300 people redundant amid concerns that it will record losses of up to £25m this year.  The animal welfare charity, which employs more than 1,600 people, said it had been reviewing all of its activities as part of a new 10-year strategy, but the need for change had

The community organisation membership body Locality has called on the government to support a community-powered economic recovery post-pandemic, including establishing a £1bn investment plan for community assets.  The call comes as part of a report, We Are Built For This, in which Locality highlights the role that community organisations have played in meeting community needs

WASHINGTON (June 17, 2020) – CARE applauds today’s introduction of the Keeping Women and Girls Safe from the Start Act by Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a bipartisan bill that will ensure that the U.S. prioritizes the needs of women and girls in responding to humanitarian emergencies. This legislation works

The charity register should not be like a private members’ club that offers a place for life for those organisations that are on it, the chair of the Charity Commission has said.  Writing for The Times newspaper this week, Baroness Stowell suggested another look at how organisations are given charitable status and how “the wrongdoers

About 70 per cent of black, Asian and minority ethnic people working in the charity sector have experienced, witnessed or heard stories about racism in the civil society sector, according to new research. And 45 per cent of the almost 500 people surveyed said they had been subject to ignorant or insensitive questioning about their

Almost a fifth of all voluntary sector employees have been furloughed during the coronavirus pandemic, government figures show. The government’s response to the inquiry by MPs on the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee into the effects of the Covid-19 outbreak on the voluntary sector says that, as of 3 May, 164,000 jobs in the

Charities have been “somewhat let down” by the government, according to the chief executive of the Charity Retail Association.  As charity shops began to open their doors for the first time since lockdown measures forced them to shut because of coronavirus, Robin Osterley told Third Sector that “it’s definitely a great first step, but it’s

A lawyer is to carry out an independent review of the charity connected to the Professional Footballers’ Association amid concerns about its governance and management.  The regulator said today it had agreed terms for a review of the governance, management and finances of the PFA Charity, which is the charitable arm of the trade union

Third Sector is building a manifesto for the future of the voluntary sector, and the team wants to hear from you. The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the voluntary and not-for-profit sector beyond imagining. And while many organisations are still battling to survive the immediate impact of the virus, the need for a long-term vision to

The 19 charities that will receive strategic support and funding through the Weston Charity Awards have been revealed. Organised by the grant-making charity the Garfield Weston Foundation with the leadership charity Pilotlight, the awards rewards front-line charities with annual incomes below £5m in the fields of community, welfare and youth located in the north of

The charity chief executives body Acevo has reiterated calls for the government to urgently increase funding to voluntary sector organisations after a snap poll showed the majority of charities have been forced to cut spending on front-line services.  Acevo, working with researchers at the Centre for Mental Health, said a survey they had jointly conducted