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About 40 nature projects in Scotland are set to benefit from a new partnership programme to help them attract private investments. The Community of Practice programme, delivered in partnership by the investment company Social Investment Scotland, the government agency NatureScot and the grantmaker the National Lottery Heritage Fund, aims to unlock investment opportunities for nature-based

Girlguiding has announced that it will continue activities in British Overseas Territories, after the closure of its overseas units in September.  The charity said it will integrate guiding within the British Overseas Territories – specifically Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Saint Helena and Ascension Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands

An equality charity has appointed one of the senior leaders at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations as its next chief. Farrow will join the Kaleidoscope Trust in June after seven years at the NCVO, the past almost two years as director of influencing and engagement. He succeeds Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, who left in November to

The number of new legacies being received by charities has “increased dramatically” this year, according to a membership body. A report by the Institute of Legacy Management finds the probate backlog had been reduced by “at least 10,000” over the past six months. The legacy consortium Legacy Foresight said in November that an estimated £900m

Charities approach appeal videos as though they are “PowerPoint presentations”, which is why “none of them get any views”, the executive director of the YouTube channel Beast Philanthropy has said in a podcast published today.  Speaking in the latest episode of Third Sector’s documentary podcast series The End of Charity, Darren Margolias discusses the philanthropic

The Global Fund for Children has appointed co-chief executives, aiming to diversify gender as part of a new shared leadership structure. Hayley Roffey has joined current chief John Hecklinger as co-chief executive of the grantmaker, which invests in community-based programmes that engage with vulnerable children and young people. Roffey has spent the past three years

The National Trust has said it will continue to take advice from “accountable, regulated institutions” after its democratic process was criticised by a think tank. A report, called National Distrust: The End of Democracy in the National Trust and published by the Legatum Institute, criticised the charity’s voting system, restriction on attendances at annual general

The confectioner Tony’s Chocolonely, Amazon UK and the Yorkshire Building Society are among the companies shortlisted for the 2024 Business Charity Awards. The awards, run by Third Sector, recognise the outstanding support given by businesses to UK charities and voluntary organisations. The shortlist features 27 categories covering innovation, charity partnerships and talent.  Partnerships shortlisted for

A homelessness charity at risk of losing £2m in council funding has said it “will not be able to operate services” without additional support. Two Saints receives £2m a year from Hampshire County Council for its social inclusion services. But the local authority has proposed funding cuts to homelessness support services in March next year.

The British Youth Council, a major youth voice charity, is closing after more than 75 years due to “ongoing financial challenges”. BYC is a youth-led charity that encourages young people under the age of 25 to get involved in their communities and democracy locally, nationally and internationally.  It was set up by the Foreign Office

The Charity Finance Group broke even last year after three successive deficits, latest figures show. The membership body’s accounts for the year to the end of March 2023 show it had recorded income and spending of £1.5m.  The CFG had recorded deficits in each of the three previous years, totalling more than £400,000 over the

A former charity director is facing 25 charges relating to an alleged £1m Gift Aid fraud involving a youth support charity. Wendy Macbean, 60, and of St Johnston, Lifford, is accused of committing the alleged offences in the name of Foyle Youth and Community Association, which is based in Derry, Northern Ireland. Macbean was due

The number of complaints received by the Fundraising Regulator rose by 8 per cent last year, new figures show.  The regulator’s latest annual report, published today, says 1,137 complaints were made to it in the year to the end of August 2023, up from 1,056 in the previous year.  The regulator said 509 of the

The next UK government should remove restrictions on civil society campaigning, according to the NGO umbrella body Bond.  Bond’s 2024 manifesto, called A Global System for People and Planet and published today, sets out the steps it believes the next government should take to “help secure a global system for people and planet, the delivery

The government has commissioned a review of Arts Council England.  The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said it had appointed Dame Mary Archer, chancellor of the University of Buckingham and a former chair of the Science Museum Group, to lead the exercise, supported by a panel of 14 arts and cultural sector experts.  The