Charity

The government’s £750m support package is “a good start” but not nearly enough to meet the actual need the sector is facing, charities have said. Responding to Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s announcement last night pledging £750m for charities across the UK and at least £20m for the National Emergencies Trust appeal, leaders from across the sector

A fifth of charity relief packages must be ring-fenced for black and minority ethnic voluntary and community sector groups, the #CharitySoWhite campaign group has said in an open letter published today.  The letter, which has so far gathered more than 30 signatories, including the Equality Trust, CharityComms, and Race on the Agenda, has called on

Cancer Research UK and Channel 4 have postponed Stand Up To Cancer’s live night of television scheduled for this autumn because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Stand Up To Cancer, which was launched in 2012 and runs every two years, has raised a total of £62m since then for the charity. CRUK’s 2018/19 accounts – the most

The Chancellor of Exchequer Rishi Sunak has announced a £750m emergency support package for “front-line charities” affected by the coronavirus crisis. In tonight’s daily government briefing, Sunak said £360m would be distributed as direct government grants to charities providing “essential services and supporting vulnerable people”, while £370m would be distributed to smaller community charities. He

BBC Children in Need and Comic Relief have announced they are to partner for the first time in the ‘one-night only’ launch of fundraising TV show The Big Night In. According to an announcement on the BBC website, the “night of entertainment” will celebrate the people who are working through the coronavirus pandemic and support

Sue Ryder is facing the closure of its hospices and care provision because the Covid-19 pandemic has cost the charity an estimated £12m in fundraised income. The charity has also added its name to calls from across the sector for an emergency funding package to help charities survive the pandemic, which has severely hit fundraising

Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities will be disproportionately affected by the coronavirus crisis if funders and charity leaders do not make racial equality central to their response, the #CharitySoWhite campaign group has warned.  In a position paper, Racial Injustice in the Covid-19 Response, published this morning, the group says that without a “purposeful approach”

Age UK is furloughing 70 per cent of its staff with immediate effect despite soaring requests for help from older people, the charity announced today.  Because more than 1,200 members of staff are furloughed, the charity has called on the government to provide urgent financial support to charities affected by the coronavirus pandemic.  The vast majority

The health and social care charity Humankind has taken on the Devon-based drug and alcohol charity EDP as a subsidiary as part of a £60m merger. The merger, which went through yesterday, has come after a number of years of collaboration between the two organisations and will seek to increase the impact of both charities

The Charity Commission is looking into a south London-based church after it was accused of promoting false coronavirus cleansing products made of oil and string. The National Secular Society said Kingdom Church GB had been advertising the devices as Covid-19 cleansing products and reported the charity to the regulator. The Charity Commission in turn opened

The coronavirus crisis is a “moment of truth” for purpose-led corporate partnerships, an expert has concluded.  Manny Amadi, chief executive of the business consultancy C&E Advisory, said some companies were stepping up to support charities during the crisis, but others were failing to live up to their professed values. C&E Advisory compiles an annual survey

The homelessness charity St Mungo’s has been told to pay almost £18,000 to a former staff member who was found to have been victimised after an abandoned bullying investigation from 14 years before.  An employment tribunal last year concluded that Leigh Andrews, who used to work for Broadway before its merger with St Mungo’s in

More than seven out of 10 charities say they will go bust before the end of the year without financial help, according to a new survey.  Research conducted by the training and publishing charity the Directory of Social Change found that half of those surveyed said they were already in financial difficulties because of the

Charities will be able to partner with businesses to get free support during the coronavirus pandemic. The National Business Response Network has been launched by Business in the Community, a charity set up by Prince Charles to champion responsible business. The network will seek to identify community needs during the Covid-19 pandemic and match them

The National Lottery Heritage Fund has unveiled a £50m emergency fund to support heritage projects in crisis as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The funder’s past and current grantees, or those still under contract from previous grants, can apply for grants of between £3,000 and £50,000. Latest headlines A survey by the NLHF of

The National Trust will furlough about 11,200 staff because of the coronavirus pandemic. The charity said in a statement that 80 per cent of its approximately 14,000 staff would be furloughed because of a loss of revenue caused by the charity’s closure of its attractions amid the Covid-19 crisis. The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme enables

St John Ambulance will need to start borrowing money from August if the coronavirus pandemic continues into the summer, the charity’s chief executive has told MPs. Martin Houghton-Brown told a virtual meeting of the Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee yesterday that the charity had sufficient reserves to last until August, but would need

The supermarket chain Morrisons has pledged to donate £10m worth of stock to local food banks by the end of July. The supermarket said it planned to help restock food banks by producing extra food at its food-making sites, which will run for an extra hour each day to help meet the additional demand. It

(New York, NY — April 1, 2020) Today, CARE and the International Rescue Committee published a Rapid Gender Assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic based on secondary data analysis undertaken between 12-20 March, 2020. The analysis was undertaken to explore the current and potential gendered dimensions of COVID-19 and highlights the ways in which women, girls

Legacy income could fall by up to 9 per cent this year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the charity consortium Legacy Foresight. Legacy Foresight’s updated legacy market forecasts estimate a likely fall of between 3 and 9 per cent over the next year, although it still expects legacy income to grow

The government has failed to work sufficiently closely with the charity sector on a coronavirus rescue package and is treating the ongoing financial crisis in the sector as an “academic exercise”, the chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations has told MPs. Speaking in a virtual meeting of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Catalyst Housing has awarded Oxford charity Leys Community Development Initiative (Leys CDI) £20,000 in anchor match funding to help future proof the vital facility. The Blackbird Leys-based charity is trying to raise £73,000 to tackle poverty, deprivation and social isolation in the local community, and the demand for these essential services has grown as the

The Charities Aid Foundation has launched an emergency fund worth at least £5m that will give grants to small charities affected by the coronavirus pandemic.  CAF said the new fund would offer grants of up to £10,000 to groups including charities and social enterprises with incomes of less than £1m.  It said in a statement

Barnardo’s is set to furlough as many as 3,000 of its 8,000-strong workforce to help the charity survive the coronavirus pandemic, its chief executive has said. Speaking on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning, Javed Khan said the children’s charity was doing so after losing £8m of its £25m monthly income overnight because

Charities in Scotland that are in financial difficulty as a result of the coronavirus pandemic are being invited to apply for a share of a £20m emergency fund. The Third Sector Resilience Fund, delivered by the social enterprise agency Firstport, Social Investment Scotland and the Corra Foundation, will provide grants of between £5,000 and £100,000

More than 560,000 people have signed up to be NHS volunteers during the coronavirus pandemic. The government had targeted the recruitment of 300,000 volunteers to help the NHS cope with the pandemic, but has already almost doubled its target, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, said on Twitter. This included 400,000 people signing up to volunteer

Big Society Capital is to launch a £100m emergency loan fund to help charities deal with cash-flow problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic. BSC said its Emergency Liquidity Facility would allow trading charities and social enterprises to borrow money for working capital or to help with cash flow. Further details about the scheme will be

A local politician has raised fears that small charities will be excluded from the government’s £10,000 small business grants scheme, aimed at supporting organisations through the coronavirus outbreak. The government had announced that small businesses would be eligible for grant funding of £10,000 to help them weather the Covid-19 pandemic. But a letter from Richard

(New York March 26, 2020) – CARE’s analysis of INFORM Global Risk Index data has found that the world’s ‘highest risk’ countries have three times higher exposure to epidemics, such as COVID-19, but also have a six times higher risk in terms of their access to healthcare compared to the world’s lowest risk countries. Somalia, Central African

Two former party leaders and another two former charity ministers have written an open letter calling for emergency funding to help the charity sector survive the coronavirus crisis. In a letter published in The Daily Telegraph newspaper, Ed Miliband, a former leader of the Labour Party who was also Minister for the Third Sector between