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A £15m fund to tackle the root causes of poverty, racism and climate change has been launched in Edinburgh, in a collaboration between 12 major funders

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The Victims’ Commissioner has urged the Chancellor to provide victim support services with an “urgent increase in funding” as charities and organisations face “mounting challenges”

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A tribunal has dismissed an appeal from a rabbi after his request for details of trustees at an antisemitism charity was turned down

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A heritage charity was “horrified” after being allegedly defrauded of a year’s worth of income by a former employee who used a false name

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A cross-party group of MPs have written to the Prime Minister to express “deep concern” over the decision to cut the UK’s aid budget

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BBC Children In Need will close temporarily to funding applications as it prepares to launch a new grantmaking system

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A fundraiser accused of defrauding a major cancer charity of more than £225,000 has admitted stealing less than 3 per cent of that figure

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Communications provides a thread that connects all parts of a charity, building an internal culture of community. It’s also the route to the outside world, bringing people with you to turn your comms into change - @awarley.bsky.social

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Care After Combat has appointed its clinical and research lead as its next chief executive

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A former employee at Change Grow Live has been ordered to pay the charity £20,000 after a judge threw out her claims of race discrimination

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A children’s bereavement charity has rebranded in a bid to ensure its service users can easily access the information and support they need

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The Insurance Charity has appointed Helen Sanson as its next chief executive as the charity’s current head is retiring

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Russ Jefferys will step down as chief executive of Parkrun in the summer after three years in the role

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“It appears that we haven’t yet found the magic formula to increase giving levels from a few thousand pounds to a regular commitment that is in line with major donors' capacity for greater giving” @emilyharle.bsky.social examines how the major donor dial could be moved

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Angela Salt is set to step down as chief executive of the girls and young women’s charity Girlguiding after six years in the role

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A further foundation has stopped accepting new applications as it embarks on a review of its grantmaking

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A neurological care charity plans to sell an ageing part of one of its sites to create a new community hub

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The London-based art charity said that up to 60 roles could be made redundant under the plans, amounting to about 18 per cent of its workforce, as it faces an estimated £7m loss this year

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A major conservation charity has completed the £17.5m purchase of an estate bigger than the city of Dundee funded by its largest donation

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A group of volunteer-based charities have called for the government to introduce paid statutory volunteering leave

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Charities could benefit from a “goldmine” of up to £11bn if the government releases dormant funds, assets and unclaimed Gift Aid, according to a new report

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A cancer support charity has merged into a larger counterpart in a bid to provide better services for those facing cancer

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A charity-operated television channel has been dissolved after the Charity Commission found its former trustees had not sufficiently monitored its chief executive’s actions, leading to financial and governance failures

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Our top stories from last week included: ⚪️ Large numbers of redundancies possible at Save the Children UK ⚪️ The former chief of the League Against Cruel Sports submits a £3m legal claim against the charity ⚪️ The chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Society resigns

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The Charity Finance Group is the latest organisation to stop posting on X citing an increase in the promotion of divisive content on the platform

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🔊 New podcast episode! What's happening to major donor giving? @lrouse.bsky.social and @emilyharle.bsky.social find out from @charlotteprothero.bsky.social @probonoecon.bsky.social and the Charities Aid Foundation's Mark Greer 🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/41CpSI8

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🔊 New podcast episode! What's happening to major donor giving? @lrouse.bsky.social and @emilyharle.bsky.social find out from @charlotteprothero.bsky.social @probonoecon.bsky.social and the Charities Aid Foundation's Mark Greer 🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/41CpSI8

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The gambling support charity GamCare has appointed a British Red Cross director as its next chief executive

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Two community support charities have expressed “anger and frustration” after the sustainable transport charity Sustrans and a local council pulled out of a project that had seen £200,000 spent on it

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The leaders of more than 130 UK NGOs have urged the government to reverse its decision to further cut the aid budget to boost spending on defence

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Young Women’s Christian Association Yorkshire has promoted Diane Offers to chief executive as the charity’s current chief prepares to semi-retire after 30 years leading the charity

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The charity has opened a consultation with its staff as part of a proposed restructure that could put a “considerable” number of jobs at risk

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Voluntary sector organisations that support people who are struggling with their energy costs are being invited to apply for a share of £40m in grant funding

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"The very structures that claim to support social justice work can be exploitative and discriminatory, continuing to stretch us to breaking point" - Huda Jawad

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The neurodiversity support charity The Donaldson Trust has appointed Lynn Wassell as its next chief executive

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More than eight out of 10 small charity leaders say their work has negatively affected their mental health, new research has shown

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The Clothworkers’ Foundation is planning changes to its application process in a bid to tackle “unpredictable” demand

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The chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Society is to step down after five years in the role

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Peers have voted in favour of making small charities exempt from the government’s upcoming increase to employer National Insurance Contributions

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More than 500 union members at Scotland’s largest social care charity are being balloted for strike action after rejecting a “miserly” pay offer

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Rather than a two-tier system of marketing ethics, in which fundraisers act like saints but commercial marketers behave like ordinary folk, there should be a single standard of marketing practice and ethics that applies to marketers across all sectors - @ianmacquillin.bsky.social

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The National Council for Voluntary Organisations’ Small Charities Advisory Panel has appointed five new members to ensure it is exclusively made up of small charity representatives

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Negative engagement in the public space is having a “profound effect” on charity campaigners, a new report has warned

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Save the Children UK has put nearly 200 jobs at risk of redundancy in a bid to save £6m

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Charity leaders have criticised the government’s “short-sighted” and “appalling” decision to cut the UK’s aid budget to plough the money into defence

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The Charities Aid Foundation has appointed Sir Edward Braham as its next chair

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A council will bring management of its library services back in-house after an independent charity lost the contract due to “serious concerns” raised about the charity’s viability, the council has said

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With Ramadan just around the corner, how much do you know about Zakat? @lrouse.bsky.social and Dami Adewale receive a beginner's guide from Taqwa Sadiq and Sohail Hanif. They learn how the wider sector can get involved in this form of sacred giving. 🎧 Listen: bit.ly/3D5bi2w

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How can charities make the most of an anniversary, using this as a catalyst to speed progress and reach key goals?

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