Charities news

• Scope chief to step down

  20-01-2026 08:12 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Mark Hodgkinson says it is the right time for him to move on after seven years in the role
  
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• Fundraising complaints about CICs rose by 50 per cent last year

  21-01-2026 09:00 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Nearly one in five complaints picked up by the Fundraising Regulator were about community interest companies
  
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• Former Become chief to lead the Young Women’s Trust

  21-01-2026 08:27 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Katharine Sacks-Jones will take up her new role in March
  
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• Tribunal upholds regulator’s decision not to register organisation promoting esotericism

  21-01-2026 07:59 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The charity tribunal finds there was a substantial risk that the Research Network for the Study of Esoteric Practices would engage in non-charitable activity
  
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• Criminal justice umbrella body reveals next leader

  20-01-2026 17:42 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Summer Alston-Smith will succeed Anne Fox
  
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• Regulator employs rarely-used powers to merge disputing charities

  20-01-2026 17:26 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The Charity Commission says it has not used its powers in this way for 20 years
  
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• Hospice cuts staff and closes services in face of expected £1.1m shortfall

  20-01-2026 17:05 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The charity says it is facing an ‘exceptionally challenging financial period’
  
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• Hospice charity saves under-threat beds after £800,000 funding cuts

  20-01-2026 07:45 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The charity says it has been overwhelmed by the reaction to its emergency fundraising appeal
  
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• Senior executives at City & Guilds put on leave amid investigation into sale of commercial arm

  19-01-2026 17:33 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The chief executive and chief financial officer are both ‘absent from work’, says the commercial arm’s new owner
  
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• Almost £4m in funding available to charities from train fare case

  19-01-2026 17:19 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Legal advice organisations will be eligible to apply
  
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• Oxfam trustee resigns over ‘inhumane’ treatment of charity’s former chief

  19-01-2026 17:05 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Balwant Singh’s resignation comes after Oxfam GB’s board commissioned an independent review into its governance processes
  
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• Heritage charity completes £10m castle and grounds sale

  19-01-2026 08:20 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The Clan Donald Lands Trust plans to become a grant-making body
  
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• Victim Support Scotland reveals interim leader

  19-01-2026 08:05 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Debbie Adams succeeds Kate Wallace, who stepped down last year for health reasons
  
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• CFG reports £120,000 deficit after digital upgrade

  19-01-2026 07:50 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Income was up but membership numbers fell
  
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• LGBTQ+ charities hit by corporate funding fall after US rollback on equalities programmes

  16-01-2026 17:25 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Businesses are growing more cautious of LGBTQ+ causes following US President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI efforts, leaders say
  
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• Regulator issues warnings to two Church of England dioceses over safeguarding failures

  16-01-2026 17:21 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Chelmsford Diocese says the warning is disproportionate while Liverpool Diocese apologised for its shortcomings
  
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• Charities ‘behind the curve’, NSPCC chief warns

  16-01-2026 08:16 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The need for transformation is only going to speed up, Chris Sherwood says
  
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• Charity ‘deeply disappointed’ after long-running strike action extended until June

  16-01-2026 07:17 via thirdsector.co.uk
  More than 40 workers at the National Coal Mining Museum began their walkout in August in a dispute over pay
  
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• Cyrenians chief to step down

  16-01-2026 05:37 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Ewan Aitken has led the charity for almost 12 years
  
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• About 50 jobs could go at heritage museum set to join the National Trust

  15-01-2026 17:43 via thirdsector.co.uk
  All 188 staff at the Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust are taking part in a consultation
  
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• Three Citizens Advice charities to merge

  15-01-2026 15:58 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The organisations say the move will build capacity and enable them to expand their services
  
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• Former charity chief denies fraud charges

  15-01-2026 15:41 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Nathan Sparling is accused of embezzling £15,984 from the now-defunct HIV Scotland
  
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• Christian charity ‘loses three-quarters of staff’ amid long-running governance dispute, accounts show

  15-01-2026 09:14 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The charity has been the subject of a Charity Commission inquiry since September 2024
  
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• Digital inclusion charity appoints new leader

  15-01-2026 08:58 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Vicki Sellick joins from St John Ambulance
  
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• Long-term grant funding is on the rise, research suggests

  15-01-2026 08:47 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The conclusions are based on survey involving more than 8,600 charity leaders
  
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• Views sought on impact of Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ+ charities

  15-01-2026 08:39 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The survey is open to anyone who works for, volunteers, or receives support from civil society organisations
  
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• The barriers preventing charities from sharing impact data revealed

  14-01-2026 17:55 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The findings come from Third Sector’s new study into how the sector measures and reports on its impact
  
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• Regulator opens case into charity embroiled in long-term strike action

  14-01-2026 17:50 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The Charity Commission says it is examining the organisation's governance and management
  
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• Budget shows voluntary sector being treated as the 'poor relation', SCVO warns

  14-01-2026 17:32 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The Scottish budget confirmed the government's 'fairer funding' pilot for charities but the membership body says it had hoped for more
  
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• Budget shows voluntary sector being treated as the ‘poor relation', SCVO warns

  14-01-2026 17:32 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The Scottish budget confirmed the government's ‘fairer funding' pilot for charities but the membership body says it had hoped for more
  
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