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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

This story has been amended, please see final paragraph. The disability charity Scope is in talks with two major entertainment companies to develop and distribute a television show based on its Mindful Monsters subscription boxes. Scope launched Mindful Monsters in June 2017 as a way to provide regular unrestricted income by offering a monthly box of

The British Heart Foundation is launching a free postal donation service in a bid to reduce the number of people visiting its 750 shops when they begin to reopen over the next few weeks.  The charity said smaller items, including books, clothes and vintage toys, donated to the charity retailer through its new post-and-donate service

Big Issue North vendors will begin resume selling issues of the magazine from Monday, the organisation has said.  Big Issue North, which produces a weekly magazine that vendors can buy for £1.50 and sell for £3, has been unavailable to street sellers during the lockdown period.  But the company said that from Monday, vendors would

About a third of staff at the Royal Osteoporosis Society will be affected by a restructure after the charity predicted a “severe drop” in fundraised income as a result of the coronavirus crisis. Craig Jones, the charity’s chief executive, was unable to confirm how many jobs were likely to be lost, but a statement from

Charities should consider deferring pension contributions to preserve short-term funds, a new report suggests.  Defined Benefit Pension Funding in the Charitable Sector, published by the pensions consultancy Hymans Robertson, says the Covid-19 pandemic has placed charities under significant financial strain, so they need to conserve cash.  The report advises that charities consider deferring pension contributions

NEW YORK (June 9th, 2020) – Today, a new CARE report reveals COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting women, yet they have almost no representation in national COVID-19 responses across the globe, and their needs are going unmet. Canada is the only country out of 30 to lead the pack, with more than 50% of the national

Breast Cancer Now is planning to cut about 60 jobs because of an expected £16m drop in its income over the next year, Third Sector has been told. A statement from the charity, which has about 300 employees, said reductions to its charitable and operational work might be needed to reflect its projected income drop.

Prince Andrew’s charity breached charity law by paying a trustee more than £350,000, the Charity Commission has found. The regulator said in a statement today it had found that a former trustee of the Prince Andrew Charitable Trust was paid by the charity’s three trading subsidiary companies to work as a director of those companies.

Atlanta, GA (June 8, 2020) – On June 9, the leading international humanitarian and development organization CARE will host its first-ever Virtual Advocacy Summit. CARE has transformed its annual CARE National Conference, which has been held in Washington, DC for the past 17 years, into a dynamic digital gathering, open to all. Participants can still expect high-caliber

The number of charitable legacies fell by 12 per cent last year, but the overall amount going to charity remained flat, new figures show. Data from the legacy information company Smee & Ford shows that the number of charitable estates fell by 4,500 to 33,120 in 2019, but total charity legacy income held up at

A group of more than 30 third sector investment bodies and organisations have called on the government to extend access to social investment tax relief beyond April next year, warning that a failure to do so could lead to the loss of hundreds of jobs in community services. SITR, which was introduced in 2014, offers

The Charity Retail Association has launched a website that will match people with volunteering opportunities in charity shops.  The membership body has also developed a partnership with the National Citizen Service Trust to encourage school-leavers to offer their time to help in charity stores. Latest headlines The government said last month that non-essential retail stores

Twenty charities have failed to log in to the Fundraising Preference Service’s charity portal to pick up requests from people who want to stop being contacted by them.  The Fundraising Regulator, which runs the FPS, has this week published an updated list showing the charities that have failed to log in to the service to

The Charity Commission has provided updated guidance to charities on reporting serious incidents during the coronavirus pandemic, including waiving the requirement to tell the regulator about financial losses above a certain threshold.  The regulator has published additional guidance and examples of incidents arising from the outbreak that charities might need to report to it.  Charities

The government must better support grass-roots community ventures and guarantee funding to community asset bids, especially in less affluent places, according to a report from the think tank Localis. The publication, Local Delivery – Protecting Social Infrastructure, concludes that community asset transfer still “relies too much on local capacity and resources”, which it says “are

More than a third of charities are facing increased demand during lockdown while more than half report fewer donations, new research shows.  And in Scotland, one in five charities say they run the risk of a “critical threat to their financial viability”. The Charities Aid Foundation asked more than 400 charities on 21 and 22 May

Charities should consider environmental factors when considering whether to accept donations, according to new guidance from the Institute of Fundraising.  The membership body has today published Environmental Change: A Toolkit for Fundraisers, which sets out measures that charities should consider in their fundraising activities to minimise their environmental impact.  The guide says that when thinking

The National Emergencies Trust has apologised after it mistakenly issued a job advert seeking grant advisers with “protected characteristics” and “lived experience in marginalised communities” who would work for the charity for free.  In a Twitter thread posted on Friday morning, the anti-racism campaign group CharitySoWhite shared a screenshot of a job specification for the

The union Unite has said staff have lost confidence in senior managers at Oxfam GB after the charity announced plans to cut 200 jobs as part of a money-saving restructure. The charity, which employs slightly more than 2,000 people in the UK, said yesterday that it had begun talking to staff about the changes, which

The Fundraising Regulator has upheld a complaint against a charity that continued to contact a person with dementia despite repeated requests for communication to stop. The regulator yesterday published its adjudication of a complaint against the Church Urban Fund, the Church of England charity that supports local communities. The report says that the complainant completed

Oxfam GB is expected to cut more than 200 jobs in a bid to make savings of about £16m a year. The charity, which employs slightly more than 2,000 people in the UK, said it had begun talking to staff about the planned changes, which would help it to fulfil its strategy over the next

Women and girls across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are facing a terrifying mix of, increased domestic violence, increased care burden, lower access to income and jobs, and potential social unrest as a result of the coronavirus outbreaks finds a new CARE International and UN Women joint report. The LAC region has the highest