Charities news

• Fundraising platform launches ‘controversial’ donor-led feature

  12-06-2025 17:05 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The feature is the first-of-its-kind in the UK, the fundraising platform says
  
  Read more

• Planning charity boss to step down

  09-01-2026 07:52 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Fiona Howie will leave the Town and Country Planning Association in the spring
  
  Read more

• Former worker admits £285,000 fraud that caused charity’s closure

  09-01-2026 06:59 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Jodie Robson pleaded guilty to theft by employee
  
  Read more

• Charity connected to The Guardian appoints new chief

  08-01-2026 17:44 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Rosie Parkyn joins from the international development charity Internews Europe
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Treasurer jailed after stealing about £40,000 from church charity

  08-01-2026 17:34 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Roger Ward has been sentenced to two years imprisonment
  
  Read more

• Higher education charity changes its name

  08-01-2026 17:12 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The membership body’s rebrand aims to better reflect the evolving community of graduate success advocates
  
  Read more

• Board Racial Diversity UK chief steps down after one month in post

  08-01-2026 16:37 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Benaifer Bhandari has taken up a part-time role at a new organisation in Scotland
  
  Read more

• Major healthcare charity’s income up by almost £18m last year

  08-01-2026 08:26 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The organisation says an increase in patients and ‘robust control of costs’ helped it to record a surplus of almost £4m in 2024/25
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Former Conservative minister to lead baby charity

  08-01-2026 08:12 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The minister will become the first chief executive of Dame Andrea Leadsom’s charity
  
  Read more

• Hospice removes senior managers as part of ‘significant organisational restructuring’

  08-01-2026 06:22 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The charity says it has been ‘challenging and uncomfortable’ to make the changes but they have been necessary to protect services
  
  Read more

• Regulator ‘engaging actively’ with City and Guilds charity after sale of commercial arm

  07-01-2026 17:38 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The vast majority of the charity’s assets have been sold to a Greek language certification company
  
  Read more

• Charity Commission confirms compliance case into gender-critical charity

  07-01-2026 17:23 via thirdsector.co.uk
  New concerns raised by the Good Law Project’s founder have been added to the year-long compliance case
  
  Read more

• Mind extends plans to operate at a deficit for a further year

  07-01-2026 16:29 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The mental-health charity recorded a deficit of £4.7m in 2024/25, down from £17m in the 12 months prior
  
  Read more

• Stonewall’s income down by more than £2m last year, accounts show

  07-01-2026 15:39 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The charity finished the year with reserves of £92,000 but says it is taking action to rebuild them after a restructure
  
  Read more

• Children’s charity promotes partnerships lead to top job

  07-01-2026 08:11 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Richard Orr has worked at the charity for 20 years
  
  Read more

• Walk the Walk founder steps down as chief executive

  07-01-2026 08:00 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The charity has raised more than £146m since Nina Barough set it up almost 30 years ago
  
  Read more

• Almost 50 jobs lost as poverty relief charity closes

  07-01-2026 07:47 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The organisation says increases in the minimum wage and employers’ National Insurance contributions have had a ‘profound impact’
  
  Read more

• Collaborate to boost volunteering infrastructure, report urges charities

  06-01-2026 17:34 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The government should also seek to build infrastructure that will enable the expansion of volunteering, the report says
  
  Read more

• Regulator bans trustees from dog rescue charity

  06-01-2026 17:24 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The organisation is subject to an ongoing regulatory compliance case
  
  Read more

• Support charity’s founding chief to step down after almost three decades

  06-01-2026 16:27 via thirdsector.co.uk
  John Hinton says it is the right time for him to move on
  
  Read more

• International development charity accelerates UK office closure amid financial pressures

  06-01-2026 16:20 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The disability charity has shifted to fully independent offices in Africa and India
  
  Read more

• Record donation helps major charity’s income rise by almost £20m

  06-01-2026 09:19 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The organisation generated a net surplus of £18.8m in 2024/25 compared with the net deficit of £3.6m in the previous year
  
  Read more

• Support charity’s pension deficit rose by almost £13m last year after ‘benefits rectification’

  06-01-2026 09:05 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The increase was partly due to an undervaluing of the benefits of 150 people who joined the scheme in 2001
  
  Read more

• Far higher proportion of voluntary sector workers on temporary contracts than the national average

  06-01-2026 07:43 via thirdsector.co.uk
  One in three frontline workers in the voluntary sector are on fixed-term or temporary contracts compared with a wider average of one in 10
  
  Read more

• Major aid charity appoints new chief

  05-01-2026 17:56 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Iftikhar Shaheen brings more than 20 years’ international development experience across multiple countries to the role
  
  Read more

• Demand for crisis support among charity leaders up by almost a fifth last year

  05-01-2026 17:31 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Acevo says calls to its CEO in Crisis service have more than doubled since 2021
  
  Read more

• Coram chief made dame in New Year Honours

  05-01-2026 15:35 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The chief executives of Alzheimer’s Research UK, Trussell and the Children’s Society were also recognised
  
  Read more

• First speakers announced for Third Sector’s free Pounds and Purpose digital event

  05-01-2026 11:27 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The finance and tech summit will take place virtually on 12 February
  
  Read more

• Regulator urged to support charities facing legal threats from transphobic pressure groups

  19-12-2025 16:21 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The regulator says it will update its Equality Act guidance once the Equality & Human Rights Commission publishes a new code
  
  Read more

• Air ambulance charity appoints next chief

  19-12-2025 15:58 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Mike McGrath joins after 14 years in various roles at the NSPCC
  
  Read more

Follow @charities_UK on Twitter!