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• ‘Exercise caution’ when using soft opt-in rules, Fundraising Regulator warns charities

  01-12-2025 15:58 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The regulator’s warning comes before the legislation takes effect in January
  
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• 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
  
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• 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
  
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• NSPCC fundraising chief to join the Canal & River Trust

  19-12-2025 09:35 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Tim Hunter will join the charity as interim fundraising director in February
  
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• Select committee chair urges government to close loophole that could cost membership charities millions of pounds

  19-12-2025 08:26 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Dame Caroline Dinenage says there is ‘widespread confusion’ among charities about the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024
  
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• Major disability charity confirms 54 corporate job cuts and 73 shop closures

  18-12-2025 17:52 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The charity has recorded its sixth consecutive operating deficit, accounts show
  
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• Major disability charity confirms 54 corporate job cuts and 69 shop closures

  18-12-2025 17:52 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The charity has recorded its sixth consecutive operating deficit, accounts show
  
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• Arrests made and £20,000 seized in connection with charity clothing bank thefts

  18-12-2025 16:12 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The thefts are believed to be connected to a Lithuanian gang
  
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• The covenant is a ‘conduit’ for local partnerships but resource challenges could prevent progress, leaders warn

  18-12-2025 08:27 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Capacity and resource could be a ‘stumbling block’ for local partnership working, APPG hears
  
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• Resource challenges could slow progress on the covenant, leaders warn

  18-12-2025 08:27 via thirdsector.co.uk
  But leaders say the agreement could be a 'conduit for collaboration'
  
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• Tribunal upholds disqualification orders against couple who showed ‘worrying disregard’ for charity law

  18-12-2025 08:00 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The charity tribunal finds that Sharon and Neil Evans were ‘de facto’ trustees of the charity, which the Charity Commission found had been used as a sales platform for their private line of products
  
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• Hundreds call for regulator to investigate Oxfam GB after departure of chief executive

  17-12-2025 16:50 via thirdsector.co.uk
  An online petition calls for the Charity Commission to investigate the events leading up to Halim Begum leaving the charity
  
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• Reduce bureaucracy and make funding practices ‘less prescriptive’, Arts Council England told

  17-12-2025 16:14 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The recommendations come in a review conducted by the Labour peer Baroness Hodge of Barking
  
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• ‘Deeply concerning’ fall in people leaving charitable legacies

  17-12-2025 09:05 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The wealth management company Rathbones warns the amount left to charity in 2025 could be £1.5bn lower than last year
  
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• Science charity reveals next leader

  17-12-2025 08:00 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Gwilym Gibbons has spent the past seven years at The Crichton Trust
  
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• Scottish grantmaker increases annual funding pot to £30m and unveils new brand identity

  16-12-2025 17:08 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The increase is a response to rising demand and a greater complexity of need, the grantmaker says
  
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• Ex-Oxfam chief to file employment tribunal claim, lawyer says

  16-12-2025 16:40 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Lawrence Davies says Halima Begum has been ‘pilloried, defamed and stigmatised’ in the media after being forced to step down
  
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• Conservation charity appoints next chief

  16-12-2025 08:12 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Andrew Impey was previously the chief executive of the Essex Wildlife Trust
  
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• Chair of covenant advisory body revealed as applications for membership open

  16-12-2025 07:13 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The Civil Society Council will advise the government on the implementation of the covenant, backed by a team at 10 Downing Street
  
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• Regulator opens inquiry into church charity after longstanding safeguarding failures

  15-12-2025 17:42 via thirdsector.co.uk
  A report last month found ‘serious and significant’ safeguarding failures at the charity over a 13-year period
  
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• Oxfam GB chief leaves after investigation into staff concerns over culture

  15-12-2025 16:22 via thirdsector.co.uk
  But charity leaders have defended Halima Begum on social media, urging the sector not to rush to judgement
  
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• Children’s hospice to close due to financial difficulties

  15-12-2025 08:10 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The charity’s previous emergency appeal said it had to raise £1.3m by the year’s end, its website shows
  
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• Children’s charity to save £1.4m a year after restructure, accounts show

  15-12-2025 07:12 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The organisation recorded £40.6m in income over 2024/25, according to its annual report
  
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• Major disability charity made more than 250 redundancies last year

  15-12-2025 05:36 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The organisation’s income was down by £10m year on year, partly due to the closure of services
  
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• Marie Curie cut nearly 200 staff last year, accounts show

  12-12-2025 16:51 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The charity remains in a £7m deficit despite income growth
  
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• Funders should ‘leave their requirements at the door and think about what charities want’, Postcode Lottery chief urges

  12-12-2025 16:33 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Clara Govier says better coordination among funders would strengthen civil society
  
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• Music charity receives ‘transformational’ £30m donation

  12-12-2025 13:19 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The donation has come from a major philanthropist
  
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• ‘Force of nature’ to lead arts centre

  12-12-2025 08:05 via thirdsector.co.uk
  Bridget Banton’s 25-year career spans television, publishing, digital media and youth culture
  
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• Regulator closes case into cycling charity but founder pledges legal action

  12-12-2025 07:40 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The OSCR says it is satisfied that the charity's trustees are fulfilling their duties
  
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• Grantmaker distributes £2.2m to community foundations as it prepares to wind down

  12-12-2025 07:12 via thirdsector.co.uk
  The foundation will have distributed more than £185m by the end of 2025, it says
  
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