Charity

Sir John Low, chief executive of the Charities Aid Foundation, is to step down next year. Low, who has led CAF since 2007, said he would leave the organisation once a successor had been appointed. Low joined CAF after five years in the top job at the RNID, now Action on Hearing Loss, and also

Criticism about the amount of government spending that goes on the National Citizen Service and a suggestion that each small charity should be required to set up a Facebook page that includes basic information about the organisation were among the ideas put forward by politicians last night. The Charity Debate, organised by the Charities Aid

Charitable private schools in Scotland are set to lose their business rates relief from 1 September, the Scottish government has said, in a move that is will cost the sector an estimated £7m a year. The government said in a statement that it would amend the Non-domestic Rates (Scotland) Bill to include the new date,

Oxford City Council has made a further £10,000 of small grants available for local charities and community groups through the innovative online matching platform The Good Exchange. Following a successful pilot earlier this year, the City Council will offer further grants of up to £1,000 through the second round of its 2018 Small Grants Scheme

The Salvation Army is on the hunt for baby Jesus after a figure of him was stolen from a nativity scene on display at one of the charity’s shops. A statement from the charity said that on Tuesday the manager of its store in Peterborough noticed the miniature of the child had gone missing, leaving

Action for Children has opened an interactive pop-up store in London’s Covent Garden as part of its Be a Secret Santa fundraising campaign. The previously vacant store, donated for free by the property company CBRE, opened yesterday and will operate until 18 December. Visitors watch a giant screen showing various festive photos and, based on

Nairobi (December 6, 2019) - As rains are expected to continue over the next few days and conditions likely to worsen, CARE plans to respond to the floods that have devastated much of Kenya. CARE plans to provide lifesaving assistance across Garissa County, with a focus on some of the most vulnerable, including refugees living in

Kumi Naidoo has resigned as secretary general of Amnesty International because of ill health. Naidoo announced to his 52,000 followers on Twitter yesterday he had been forced to make the “painful decision” to relinquish the role he took up just 16 months ago. He is due to continue working for the human rights organisation until

Newbury, 11th September 2018 – Oxfordshire Community Foundation (OCF), funded through the #iwill Fund, is working in partnership with The Good Exchange’s not-for-profit, online matching cloud platform. The #iwill Fund was created through £40 million of seed funding from Government, and the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund. It supports the aims of the

The Charity Commission has apologised for accidentally retweeting an anti-Boris Johnson tweet. On Thursday, the commission and the Prime Minister were both tagged in a tweet by The Jewish Chronicle that featured the newspaper’s front page: this led on a story that Johnson had spoken about Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s approach to tackling antisemitism in

Atlanta & Los Angeles (October 10, 2019) — In honor of International Day of the Girl, leading humanitarian organization CARE and beloved children’s brand Care Bears™ have partnered with more than 30 celebrities, artists, and influencers, to celebrate smart, strong, and capable girls around the world.  Kacey Musgraves, Hilary Duff, Sia, Iman, Meghan Trainor, Michelle

The Institute of Fundraising has launched a new confidential helpline that fundraisers can use to report sexual harassment. The helpline, which was launched today, will provide free confidential support and advice to complainants who want to report harassment by an IoF member or which took place at an IoF event. Latest headlines The helpline is

Access, the Foundation for Social Investment, has expanded its enterprise development programme with a further £6m of support, including grant funding. The programme, which works to support enterprise models in charities and social enterprises, will now work with mental health and equality organisations, in addition to those in the youth and homelessness sectors involved in

WASHINGTON (Oct. 11, 2019) – Reps. Dwight Evans (D-PA) and Andy Levin (D-MI) traveled to Bangladesh with CARE to see how vital U.S. investments in combatting malnutrition and stunting are helping to build more resilient and healthy Bangladeshi and refugee communities. The delegation was hosted by CARE’s Chief Operating Officer Tjada McKenna and joined by

The online matching platform for the charitable sector has now dispersed a total of £8.5m to good causes Newbury, 18 September 2018 – Not-for-profit, charity-owned online charitable giving platform The Good Exchange has today announced significant growth figures as it celebrates its second anniversary. In the second year of operations, the platform has experienced 76

The Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales is offering small charities grants of up to £100,000 towards their core costs. The grant-maker has today begun accepting applications from charities in England and Wales with annual incomes of between £25,000 and £1m that are working to address complex social issues such as mental health, homelessness

On October 13, 2013, Cyclone Phailin hit the southeastern coast of India, lashing the states of Odisha and Andhra and others with winds up to 220 kph and dumping more than of water. The cyclone It left a trail of destruction in its path, knocking down homes, destroying crops and wiping out the livelihoods of thousands of the country’s

The Royal British Legion raised more than three-quarters of a million pounds through contactless donations during this year’s Poppy Appeal, more than three times the amount the method raised last year. The charity told Third Sector that it raised £780,000 from contactless giving during the 2019 Appeal, up from £211,000 last year and £67,000 in

AMMAN (October 16, 2019) – The Syria INGO Regional Forum (SIRF), comprising 73 international humanitarian organizations responding to the Syria crisis, including CARE, expressed deep concern at the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation since Turkey’s military operation started on October 09th. The United Nations (UN) estimates that more than 200,000 people have been displaced, and has

The youth and disability charity the Lord’s Taverners has said it “does not endorse” the behaviour of some audience members at a fundraising dinner where the comedian Nish Kumar was booed off stage. Kumar was jeered and heckled by some audience members after he made political jokes that appeared to upset people present at the lunch

LONDON – 25 October, 2018 – Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ: CSOD), global leader in cloud-based learning and human capital management software (HCM), has today announced that the NSPCC is extending its partnership to offer Cornerstone Learning and Extended Enterprise to its volunteers. The child protection charity is largely made up of volunteers and employees who need

The People’s Postcode Lottery has announced that it has raised more than half a billion pounds for good causes since it began in 2005. The money has been used to fund more than 7,500 good causes, ranging from grass-roots community groups to national organisations, such as the cancer charity Maggie’s, WWF-UK and Dogs Trust. The

AMMAN (October 17, 2019) – CARE warned today that humanitarian needs continue to rise in north-east Syria, as the conflict in the area deepens. Civilians are escaping the fighting and sheltering with relatives, in public spaces, or in overcrowded camps. While health service provision has been disrupted due to the violence in some areas, other

The learning disability support organisation Yarrow is set to become a subsidiary of its larger counterpart Certitude, the organisations have announced. The London-based pair, which are both community benefit societies, said they planned to form a group next year that would be the largest not-for-profit provider of support to people with learning disabilities, autism and

CARE is on the ground – now and for the long run – in remote, typhoon-affected areas of the Philippines providing food, shelter, livelihood assistance and other essentials to survivors of the storm.  The deep appreciation expressed by the people who have lived through one of the strongest storms in history has touched our team in the

27th August 2019: Artesian Solutions, the powerful technology for client facing commercial teams, designed to accelerate revenue growth by helping create deeper and more meaningful B2B relationships, is once again set to host the ‘Brain of the City’ Quiz for this year’s Lord Mayors Appeal City Giving Day. Following the success of last year’s event,

Smaller charities are feeling more optimistic about the future, new research suggests. A survey of mostly smaller charities by the grant-maker the Garfield Weston Foundation and the support charity Pilotlight found that 41 per cent of respondents expected their income to rise over the next 12 months, up from 38 per cent in the same

AMMAN/DAHUK (October 24, 2019) – More than two weeks after the escalation of violence in north-east Syria, women, children, and families continue to be uprooted from their homes, with displacement figures reaching close to 180,000, according to the United Nations. While civilians continue to bear the brunt of the recent fighting, women and girls are the most

Press Release IFCO SYSTEMS supports food banks worldwide by provisioning free RPCs and co-financing refrigerated vans PULLACH, GERMANY, 11. December 2018: Since the beginning of its initiative for the support of food banks in 2009, IFCO SYSTEMS, the leading global provider of reusable packaging solutions, has donated more than 280,000 RPCs (Reusable Plastic Containers) to