The shadow charities minister has called for “urgent answers” about the future of the National Citizen Service following the collapse of the programme’s former delivery partner The Challenge. Vicky Foxcroft, who is running again as the Labour candidate for Lewisham Deptford in south-east London, also said that attempts to get further information on NCS spending from
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On April 25, a devastating earthquake struck between the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and the city of Pokhara. The needs in response to this catastrophe are immense. CARE staff are on the ground providing people with temporary shelter, ready-to-eat meals, water purification and toilet construction. More than 7,000 people have reportedly died and this number is expected to
LONDON – 26 February 2019 – The Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation, a non-profit organisation formed by learning and human capital management software provider Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ: CSOD), today announced that Team Rubicon UK is using Cornerstone’s Learning Management System to train, engage and deploy volunteers quickly and efficiently. Team Rubicon is a Talent Management Grantee of
The Charity Commission has disqualified three former trustees of a north London Christian charity after they paid themselves more than £450,000 of unauthorised sums and the regulator found cash worth more than £700,000 had been withdrawn from the charity’s bank account without proper paperwork. The commission opened a statutory inquiry into Kingdom Life Ministries in June
MAPUTO (November 12, 2019) – At least 1.6 million people in the central and southern parts of Mozambique are presently in need of assistance due to the devastating effects of the ongoing drought and increasingly severe weather events. Mozambique is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to natural disasters and climate change. The severe food shortage is
The platform has seen a 116% increase in new user registrations, while the number of projects achieving full funding via the platform has jumped by 70% in the last year Newbury, 18th September 2019 – Not-for-profit, charity owned online charitable giving platform The Good Exchange has revealed significant growth figures as it celebrates its third
Negotiations between the RSPCA and union officials over staff pay and conditions have officially broken down, with the charity saying the sides are in “formal dispute”. Third Sector revealed in October that the charity was planning to dismiss staff who do not agree to a new performance-related pay scheme, prompting a furious backlash from Unite,
Extreme weather from the most severe El Niño on record already has affected millions of people around the world. From drought and cyclones to flooding and forest fires, its effects destroy crops and livelihoods, threaten water supplies and levy lasting hardships on millions of people, particularly the poorest households, which are vulnerable even in normal
Digital fundraising platform Donr streamlined the fundraising process, helping the global car rental company to achieve over half a million pounds in donations Newcastle, 28th November, 2019: Employees from over 450 Enterprise Rent-A-Car UK branches have raised almost six hundred thousand pounds for Children In Need this year, thanks in part to the bespoke solution
A war of words has broken out between The Challenge and the National Citizen Service Trust after the trust said it was not to blame for its former delivery partner’s collapse into administration. Yesterday The Challenge announced it had entered into administration, owing to the ramifications of the loss of a £60m contract in August to deliver
WASHINGTON (Nov. 12, 2019) – A bipartisan group of Congressional staffers traveled to Malawi with CARE to see how vital U.S investments in women’s and youth’s empowerment and health can equip families and communities with the tools and resources necessary to lift themselves out of poverty. The delegation included staffers from Florida, Illinois, Nevada, New
Local youth charities and good causes encouraged to apply for grants totaling £150,000 from a North East charitable trust in latest funding round Newbury, 10th September 2019 – Not-for-profit cloud platform The Good Exchange has today announced that £150,000 of funding is available to support young people in the North East of England. County Durham
A war of words has broken out between The Challenge and the National Citizen Service Trust after the trust said it was not to blame for its former delivery partner’s collapse into administration. Yesterday The Challenge announced it had entered into administration, owing to the ramifications of the loss of a £60m contract in August to deliver
One of the most powerful hurricanes in recent years has hit Haiti, bringing 145mph winds, heavy rain and dangerous storm surges. CARE is responding to this devastating storm with clean drinking water, food assistance and emergency supplies such as tarps for shelter, blankets and hygiene kits. CARE is currently providing meals to hundreds of people
30th September 2019: Artesian Solutions, the powerful technology for client facing commercial teams, once again celebrates the resounding success of its annual ‘Brain of the City’ Quiz for the Lord Mayors Appeal City Giving Day. Following the success of last year’s event, The Artesian team were determined to make the popular quiz night bigger and
A culture of large organisations taking on contracts for local services they are not familiar with is “reprehensible” and a charity being reliant on certain forms of funding risks its volunteers being used as “cheap civil servants”, Princess Anne has told charities. Speaking last night at the annual Hinton Lecture, which is run by the
WASHINGTON (November 26, 2019) – The global poverty-fighting organization CARE is pleased to welcome the House introduction of HR 5267, the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA)*. This bill will ensure that tackling gender-based violence is a foundation of U.S. foreign policy. IVAWA makes ending gender-based violence a top diplomatic, development, and foreign assistance priority by ensuring the U.S.
About the crisis in Somalia In Somalia, 6.7 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance, including more than 350,000 malnourished children under the age of five. The crisis in Somalia is the result of prolonged drought, violence and insecurity. Consecutive years of poor rains and harvests have decimated crops across Somalia, South Sudan,
SANA’A, (November 27, 2019) – After more than three years of closure, it has been announced that Sana’a International Airport is to be re-opened to allow sick patients to travel overseas for life-saving treatment. In August, CARE & NRC reported that up to 32,000 people may have died through not being able to travel overseas for medical care. “It
About the crisis in Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin The violent conflict that began in Nigeria in 2009 has resulted in a severe crisis in the northeast of the country, creating vast need for lifesaving support. 8.5 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, 5.2 million in need of life-saving food assistance
About the crisis in Venezuela Venezuela is experiencing an unprecedented and man-made humanitarian crisis, causing a mass exodus of its people. Thousands of children are at risk of dying from malnutrition and people are contracting formerly eradicated diseases such as measles. More than 3 million people—about ten percent of the population—have fled Venezuela as a
About Cyclone Idai On the night of Thursday, March 14, 2019, Mozambique was hit by tropical Cyclone Idai. The storm, which evolved into a Category 3 cyclone, hit Mozambique with a speed of over 125 mph. At least 1.5 million people in the region (Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe) have been affected. Mozambique is the
Action on Hearing Loss has become the latest charity to sever connections with Prince Andrew, who has been its patron for the past six years. The charity said in a statement today that after its senior management met the prince last week, trustees had agreed that it would be appropriate for him to step down as
The youth charity The Challenge, which was previously the largest provider of services for the government’s National Citizen Service programme, has gone into administration with the likely loss of more than 200 jobs. The charity said in a statement today that it was with “great sadness and considerable anger” that it had been forced into administration,
The Eckes-Granini Group supports the benevolent engagement of Europe’s most ambitious charity cycling project. Nieder-Olm, 30 September 2019. Since 2002, when employees of Rynkeby Foods A/S decided to ride their bicycles to Paris for a good cause, the Team Rynkeby project has become Europe’s biggest charity cycling event. More than 2,000 cyclists from 7 countries
Newbury, 1st October 2019 – Not-for-profit, charity-owned charitable giving platform, The Good Exchange has today announced that it will be transforming the way that money is given to good causes using its platform by making the service completely free for every organisational funder and individual donor from today. During the three years that The Good
Donr’s text giving platform helps raise money for Pudsey Newcastle, 14th November, 2019: This year’s Children in Need has seen text giving become a vital fundraising tool. A number of large corporates, that raise money through a combination of staff initiatives and customer donations have embraced Donr’s text giving platform for this year’s fundraising efforts.
November 12, 2019 – Every day, people endeavor to do their part for the environment – they carry reusable bags to the grocery store, recycle plastic bottles and cans, circulate news stories of the poor whale who died after swallowing 88 pounds of plastic, join protests for climate change, donate monthly to their favorite causes,