Charities news

• Hospices recorded £78m overall deficit last year, figures show

  30-10-2025 17:47 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The proportion of adult hospices recording a deficit in 2023/24 was the highest in the past decade, according to a new report
  
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• Prepare early for 'complicated' benefits in kind changes, charities urged

  05-12-2025 17:26 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The government is set to mandate the payrolling of benefits in kind from April 2027
  
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• Plan early for 'complicated' benefits in kind changes, charities urged

  05-12-2025 17:26 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The government is set to mandate the payrolling of benefits in kind from April 2027
  
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• Charity leaders should plan for shorter tenures due to growing work pressure, Acevo chief warns

  05-12-2025 16:02 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Jane Ide says the sector needs to be ‘realistic’ about the pressures a charity leadership role entails
  
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• Race equality organisations received fewer capital grants than other organisations last year, report finds

  05-12-2025 09:29 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The overall proportion of grants to race equality organisations fell by 5 per cent since last year, data shows
  
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• British Asian Trust reveals next leader

  05-12-2025 08:29 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Hitan Mehta, who was the charity's first employee 18 years ago, succeeds Richard Hawkes
  
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• 'Significant and unexpected' costs meant regulator exceeded its legal budget last year

  05-12-2025 08:21 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The spending related to a specific case involving The Jericho Benedictine Society, the OSCR says
  
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• Door-to-door fundraising became most successful face-to-face channel last year, report finds

  05-12-2025 07:30 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The channel has risen in prevalence since the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chartered Institute of Fundraising concludes
  
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• Commission adds 12 more charities into £22m cashed cheques probe

  04-12-2025 17:21 via thirdsector.co.uk
  More than 100 charities are already part of the class inquiry, which was announced earlier this year
  
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• Girlguiding and Women’s Institute could face legal challenge over trans exclusion decision

  04-12-2025 17:09 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The Good Law Project says the plans to exclude trans women and girls might be unlawful
  
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• Missing People chief to step down

  04-12-2025 16:47 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Jo Youle is to take the top job at the Windsor Leadership Trust
  
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• GB News makes ‘substantial’ payment to Islamic Relief over false claims

  04-12-2025 09:00 via thirdsector.co.uk
  A guest on The Camilla Tominey Show incorrectly claimed that the charity had been banned in countries overseas because it had sent money to terrorist groups in the Middle East
  
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• Community support charity closes after 88 years

  04-12-2025 08:41 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The organisation says it had suffered two years of losses and income targets not being met
  
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• Almost a third of charity leaders expect income to rise over next two years, research finds

  04-12-2025 08:33 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Leaders are also optimistic about funding from the private sector and from trusts and foundations, a new report says
  
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• Charity told to pay £30,000 to unfairly dismissed worker

  04-12-2025 08:19 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Nigel Middleton had worked for the organisation for more than 20 years
  
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• Major animal welfare charity opens voluntary severance scheme

  03-12-2025 17:48 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The organisation says it is facing 'considerable financial pressures'
  
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• Girlguiding and Women’s Institute criticised for barring trans women and girls from membership

  03-12-2025 17:31 via thirdsector.co.uk
  A petition urging Girlguiding to reverse its decision has gained more than 4,000 signatures overnight
  
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• Girlguiding and Women’s Institute criticised for barring trans girls and women from membership

  03-12-2025 17:31 via thirdsector.co.uk
  A petition urging Girlguiding to reverse its decision has gained more than 4,000 signatures overnight
  
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• The Big Give founder dies at 91

  03-12-2025 13:46 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Sir Alec Reed, who set up the recruitment company that bears his name, was knighted in 2011 for services to business and charity
  
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• Mental health charity set to close following rising costs and reduced funding

  03-12-2025 09:20 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The Kent-based Mental Health Resource said it had been “unable to find a viable way forward” after supporting people in the region for more than 30 years
  
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• Income at Action for Children up more than £8m despite funding challenges

  03-12-2025 09:05 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The charity’s latest accounts attributed increased expenditure to factors including the higher cost of utilities and the Real Living Wage
  
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• Impact economy hub must build reciprocal partnerships, infrastructure body chief says

  03-12-2025 09:00 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Shared ambition does not always translate into shared action, Emma de Closset warns in an essay
  
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• Royal Academy of Engineering announces next chief executive

  02-12-2025 16:58 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Dame Tamara Finkelstein will join the charity in February 2026
  
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• Staff at mental health charity back strike action

  02-12-2025 16:51 via thirdsector.co.uk
  All of Unison’s 113 members at Second Step took part in the ballot, the union says
  
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• Shift to relationship-based fundraising to boost major giving, CIoF urges

  02-12-2025 12:55 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Developing meaningful relationships with philanthropists will help charities grow sustainable long-term partnerships, report says
  
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• Jo Cox Foundation reveals next chief

  02-12-2025 09:19 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Olivia Field joins from the British Red Cross
  
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• Government’s £750m support package for charities during the pandemic ‘fell short’, inquiry hears

  02-12-2025 07:50 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Sarah Elliott, who led the National Council for Voluntary Organisations for the majority of the Covid-19 pandemic, has been giving evidence to the official inquiry
  
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• Income at children’s health charity up 29 per cent year on year

  02-12-2025 07:30 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The charity says the increase is primarily due to growth in challenge events, legacies and corporate partnerships
  
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• London Marathon offers 500 charity places for 2027 event

  01-12-2025 18:13 via thirdsector.co.uk
  UK-registered charities have until 11 December to apply for the ballot
  
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• VCSEs won just 6 per cent of government contracts over past five years, analysis shows

  01-12-2025 17:14 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Contracts awarded to VCSEs between 2019 and 2024 amounted to a total of £24.4bn, report finds
  
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