Charity

The Charity Commission’s investigation into the charity fundraiser the Dove Trust has cost the regulator £650,000 over six years, documents filed with the High Court show. In an application submitted to the High Court in October, the commission has attempted to claw back some of its outgoings by claiming the trust’s £84,000 surplus should be

The local infrastructure charity Navca is set to move away from allowing members to choose its chair and instead enable its board to make the appointment. Navca is without a long-term chair after John Tizard stepped down in July just seven months into the role so he could “focus his energies on his role as

More than 100 charities have called on the UK government to retain the Department for International Development amid rumours that the department will be subsumed into the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. In a statement published by the international development sector umbrella body Bond, the charities warn that merging the departments would damage the nation’s commitment

Britain’s youngest MP has pledged to donate half of her salary to charity after her election last week. Latest headlines Nadia Whittome, 23, who was last week elected as the Labour MP for Nottingham East, said she would take home only £35,000 of her salary after tax. The rest of her £79,000 salary would be

Longleat safari park has been inundated with socks after it asked supporters to send them in for its chipmunks. The Wiltshire wildlife park said it was overwhelmed by the public’s generosity after it took to social media to ask people to donate old socks for its family of chipmunks. The park has since asked people

MADRID (December 15, 2019) – At the conclusion of the 25th Climate Conference of the Parties (COP25), CARE expresses its deep concern over the large disconnect between the reality of the climate emergency and people’s demands for climate justice, and the bare minimum that governments pieced together at the negotiations. Delivering enhanced national climate plans

The disability charity Action on Hearing Loss plans to sell off its care services next year as it seeks to pay off its debts and focus more on its campaigning and advisory roles. Speaking exclusively to Third Sector before publication of its annual accounts yesterday, Mark Atkinson, chief executive of Action on Hearing Loss, said

The National Autistic Society increased its income from £96.1m to £99.8m in the year ending 31 March 2019, according to its latest annual report and accounts. The document, which was posted on the Companies House website this week, reveals that the increase was largely due to £9.2m of capital funding from the Department for Education’s

The Salvation Army has breached the Code of Fundraising Practice for a second time in consecutive quarterly adjudications. The charity was responsible for one of eight complaints upheld by the Fundraising Regulator when in September it began naming every organisation it investigates. The organisation apologised for an “unacceptable oversight” for sending direct marketing to 83

Two charities are set to share up to £20,000 found in a safe in a scrapyard. Staff at the scrap metal and waste recycling dealer Sackers in Ipswich found the safe stuffed full of notes and coins when it was opened. They handed the money to police in April and because it has not been

WASHINGTON (December 12, 2019) – The global poverty-fighting organization CARE is pleased to welcome the bipartisan Senate introduction of the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA)* (S.3037). This bill will ensure that tackling gender-based violence is a foundation of U.S. foreign policy. IVAWA was introduced in the Senate by Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Susan Collins

Charities should step up and be a “safe haven” for the vulnerable and “speak up for all areas of society”, charity sector leaders have said following the Conservative Party’s landslide election win. The comments come as Boris Johnson’s Tories won a large majority with 364 seats. Caron Bradshaw, chief executive of the Charity Finance Group,

Danny Kruger, co-founder and former chief executive of the criminal justice charity Only Connect and a former government adviser on civil society, was among the people with a voluntary sector background to have been elected to parliament in yesterday’s general election. Others included David Johnston, former chief executive of the Social Mobility Foundation, who retained

Charities should be wary of embarking on change unless it has the support of the public, according to Baroness Stowell, chair of the Charity Commission. In a speech this week, Stowell said trust in charities had declined and voluntary sector leaders could no longer “assume legitimacy” in the eyes of the public. People, she said,

Variety, the Children’s Charity, has promoted Jo Carter to be its next chief executive. The charity said Carter, who joined as director of fundraising, marketing and communications in May, had been interim chief executive since July. She succeeds Frances Lang, who only joined the charity in September last year.  A spokeswoman for the charity said

SANAA (December 12, 2019) – A quarter of all civilian casualties across Yemen in 2019 were recorded in Hodeidah governorate. Despite a ceasefire in the port city being at the heart of last year’s Stockholm Agreement, Hodeidah has seen 799 civilian casualties since the Agreement was signed, the highest toll countrywide. Families continue to flee

Quintessentially founder’s new app Kindred gives back to conscious consumers with every transaction London, 11 December 2019: Kindred, a new platform that digitises word-of-mouth recommendations on social media, has raised £2.25 million in seed capital investment and has a £35 million valuation pre-revenue. Board investors are Richard Laxer, ex-President of GE Capital, and Dan Bricken,

Christian Aid has revealed plans to close all of its regional offices in England in the first phase of a new global strategy that could lead to up to 200 job losses. The charity announced in the summer that it planned to restructure and withdraw from 12 countries as part of plans to save £7m

The UK is the fifth most generous country, according to figures from the funding platform GoFundMe. A report from the crowdfunding website about donations made through it globally in 2019 shows Ireland was the most generous country overall, with the US second, Australia third and Canada fourth, based on the number of donations per capita.

Newbury, 11th April 2018 – Not-for-profit cloud platform, The Good Exchange, has announced today that it has been named the 2018 digital partner for the National Council for Voluntary Organisations’ (NCVO) Annual Conference, which is being held on Monday 16th April at The Brewery in London. The NCVO champions the voluntary sector and volunteering, believing

RSPCA staff could strike in February after a union poll indicated huge opposition to proposed changes to pay and conditions. In an indicative ballot by the union Unite, which has more than 800 members at the RSPCA, 88 per cent of them said they were prepared to take industrial action. Ninety-six per cent said they

New software enables small charities to access cashless donations globally 400 sign-ups in time for Christmas Cost of accessing cashless payments reduced from £500 to less than £100 London, UK. 10th December 2019. More than 400 charities have signed up to a new service that slashes the cost of setting up contactless donations from £500

The Charity Commission has warned charities to review their policies on how employee details are amended after several voluntary sector organisations reported fell foul of fraudsters. In an alert issued today, the regulator said it had received four reports from charities that had fallen victim to fraudsters impersonating members of staff in order to change

A global survey of civil society freedom has said activism is being increasingly repressed. People Power Under Attack is published annually by Civicus, a global alliance of civil society organisations and activists based in South Africa that works to strengthen citizen action. The latest document rates the extent to which states respect the right of

75% agree that corporate fundraising is becoming more important to the local community, yet nearly 60% supported between just one and five good causes in the last year, largely due to administrative overhead Newbury, 18th April 2018 – Not-for-profit, The Good Exchange, has today released the results of new research into the key drivers and

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