Charities news

• YoungMinds chief to step down after two years

  02-05-2025 06:55 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  Laura Bunt plans to ‘take some time for herself’ after stepping down in June, the charity says
  
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• 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
  
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• 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
  
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• 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
  
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• 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
  
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• 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
  
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• 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
  
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• 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
  
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• 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
  
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• 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
  
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• 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
  
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• 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
  
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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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