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Charities have been advised to act quickly if they want to apply for a share of hundreds of millions of pounds of emergency support that has been made available to help them through the coronavirus crisis.  The National Lottery Community Fund has today opened applications for the Coronavirus Community Support Fund, which will distribute an

Oxfam International will cut almost 1,500 jobs and withdraw from 18 countries as part of a major restructure. Oxfam has been carrying out a strategic review of its operations since 2018 and said the coronavirus pandemic had forced it to speed up its restructuring plans. It said the changes would enable the organisation to be

Charities should maintain investment in fundraising even at these uncertain times, academics have advised.  Beth Breeze, director of the Centre for Philanthropy at the University of Kent, and Alison Body, lecturer in philanthropic studies at the same university, were speaking at Third Sector’s online Fundraising Conference this week in a session about raising funds for

The government has announced that it will make £150m available from dormant assets to support charities and social enterprises through the coronavirus pandemic.  Speaking at the government’s daily Covid-19 press conference today, Oliver Dowden, the culture secretary, said the funding, which will be mostly loan finance, would support work to tackle youth unemployment and provide

19th May 2020 – Berkshire Youth and funding partner Greenham Trust have partnered to launch a youth support hub to assist young people, families and agencies through the COVID-19 lockdown. The West Berkshire Youth Hub will be a virtual and telephone-based support platform with resources and opportunities designed around connecting, listening to and providing solutions

The recording-breaking fundraiser Captain Tom Moore is to be knighted after raising £32.8m for NHS charities by walking laps of his garden.  The centenarian was nominated by the Prime Minister in recognition of his fundraising efforts, which saw him smash the record for the highest amount raised on the fundraising platform JustGiving. Latest headlines Moore

Press Release Help purchase PPE for hospitals by registering for MGS Global Virtual Conference 1.0 for just $5. May 19, 2020, San Francisco, CA – In April, Siberia Su, and a group of friends launched MRACLE2020-a nonprofit on a mission to accelerate the flattening of the COVID-19 curve. Currently, they are raising funds for the

A community sports charity in central London has turned its headquarters into a food bank, allowing it to provide food and support to people in one of the most deprived areas of the capital.  Greenhouse Sports normally offers sports coaching and mentoring to more than 7,000 young people, but since the coronavirus lockdown came into

The Children’s Society has paid tribute to one of its young trustees after she was shot dead in Blackburn over the weekend. Nineteen-year-old law student Aya Hachem was hit in the chest while shopping on Sunday by what police believe was a stray bullet. Three men aged 39, 33 and 36, all from Blackburn, have

Charities were stretching themselves too thinly even before the coronavirus crisis hit, according to a new report from the think tank New Philanthropy Capital. The report, State of the Sector 2020, which is based on 300 telephone interviews with small, medium, large and major charities between November and January, says that charities have experienced increases

St John Ambulance might have to make about 250 redundancies as it attempts to tackle expected losses of more than £45m over the next two years. A statement from the charity, which has almost 1,600 employees, said it needed to substantially reduce costs now that major sources of income had dried up in recent months

The Charity Commission‘s statutory inquiry into Oxfam cost £370,000 in staff time, correspondence reveals.  The regulator launched an inquiry into safeguarding at Oxfam in February 2018, after allegations of sexual misconduct by the charity’s staff during the response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake were published in The Times newspaper. The inquiry concluded in June 2019. 

Fundraised income at the top 100 charities fell by £92m in real terms in 2018/19, according to the Charity Financials Charity Top 100 Fundraisers Spotlight annual report, published today. The value of general public fundraising fell to £5.8bn last year, a fall of 1.7 per cent, the report revealed.  Almost half (48) of the top

The National Emergencies Trust has introduced measures, including amending its allocation criteria, to ensure money raised from its coronavirus appeal will reach BAME communities.  The trust, which has raised more than £60m through its emergency appeal to raise funds for charities affected by the Covid-19 outbreak, said it wanted to ensure that the funds raised

The immigration and asylum support charity Consonant has warned that it might have to close its doors in the next week if its emergency appeal to raise £40,000 is unsuccessful.  The charity, which was formed from the 2016 merger of Asylum Aid and the Migrants Resource Centre and continued to use both names until a

(Juba, May 14, 2020) – As South Sudan has seen a spike in the number of coronavirus cases over the past two weeks, with numbers rising to 174 as of May 11, the population of the world’s youngest country is also facing potential risks with the upcoming lean season. This, combined with intercommunal fighting and locust invasions

The coronavirus outbreak has seen the rise of a new phenomenon: mutual aid groups. These groups of people offering help and support to their neighbours have sprung up seemingly overnight, often operating on a hyper-local, street-by-street basis. There are currently more than 4,250 mutual aid groups in the UK, with the smallest consisting of just

The proportion of people who gave to animal welfare and disability charities fell last month as people lent their support to hospitals and hospices, new research shows.  Polling by the Charities Aid Foundation carried out between 20 and 23 April showed that the proportion of people who said they had donated to hospitals and hospices

(Geneva, May 14, 2020) – CARE welcomes the launch of the revised UN COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan’s (GHRP), including an increased target (to $6.7 billion) and emphasis on Gender Based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health Services which are so critically needed at this time. However, nearly two months after the launch of the

Sport England is offering grants of up to £10,000 in match funding to sports clubs and groups using Crowdfunder to raise money to help them survive the coronavirus pandemic. Local sports clubs and charities, community, voluntary and social enterprise sector organisations delivering sport or physical activity in their communities can apply for match funding of

The government should introduce a new programme to strengthen volunteering infrastructure to capitalise on the wave of people putting themselves forward because of the coronavirus pandemic, MPs have suggested.  A report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Integration, published today, says the Covid-19 crisis has resulted in “more and new types of volunteering”, with

It is “plain wrong” to suggest that the Charity Commission‘s emphasis on the lack of public trust in charities is undermining the voluntary sector, its chair has said. In a written question-and-answer statement to the Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee as part of its inquiry into the work of the commission, Baroness Tina Stowell

Big Society Capital has significantly reduced its annual losses since last year, but its latest accounts warn that the coronavirus outbreak could lead to a significant drop in the value of its social impact investments next year. The social investment wholesaler’s accounts for the year to 31 December 2019, published on Companies House this week,

Instagram has launched a new function that allows viewers to donate to charity while watching Instagram Live events. Users broadcasting on Instagram Live can now choose a charity when they start the stream and will be able to see how many people are supporting the fundraiser and the amount of money being raised. Latest headlines

New Charity initiative Bytes for Heroes asks the tech industry to “do lunch” together virtually every Wednesday to raise funds London, 12th May 2020 – Today, recently launched UK technology led charity initiative Bytes for Heroes has announced #lunchbytes, a new fundraising campaign bringing working from home and other working separately tech team members for

Third Sector is making an additional 1,500 places available for free for next week’s virtual Fundraising Conference after the initial allocation of tickets sold out within 48 hours. The move comes after Salesforce.org, which provides free and discounted technology to the not-for-profit sector, agreed to come on board as headline sponsor and fund the additional

The Small Charities Coalition has said it will not work with Virgin Money Giving after the fundraising platform tweeted its agreement with an article in The Sun newspaper attacking JustGiving.  But VMG has stood by its controversial tweet, which criticised JustGiving for making a profit. On Friday The Sun’s front page demanded that JustGiving hand

Charities that support vulnerable energy consumers or have innovative ideas that will benefit energy customers are being invited to apply for shares of £13m of funding. The money comes from the latest round of the Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme, which is managed by the Energy Saving Trust and distributes funds from energy companies that

Trust in voluntary organisations in the UK has risen by six percentage points since January, according to a report measuring the public’s faith in different institutions globally. The Trust Barometer Spring Update, published by the PR firm Edelman, says that when the people in the UK were asked to rate how much they trusted NGOs,

A man has been held in relation to an allegation of criminal damage after the chief executive of the Young Women’s Trust said she had been targeted by a “relentless stalker”.  Sophie Walker posted a statement on Twitter on Monday saying she was disappointed that the Crown Prosecution Service had decided not to pursue a