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The Met Office has selected The British Red Cross to be its charity partner for the next three years, to provide its global workers with latest information to support communities impacted by climate e...

The Charity Commission for England and Wales has pledged to work more closely with the Regulator of Social Housing.

Charities are being urged to improve their community engagement around decisions to use artificial intelligence across their organisation and services.

Charity leaders are being urged by anti-racism campaign group Charity So White to ask themselves “hard questions about the biases you hold” when making decisions around redundancies.

The sector is also blighted by a lack of diversity in leadership roles with only 6% of charity CEOs identifying as Asian or from a minoritised ethnic background.

A guide has been launched to support charity staff, their leaders and those they are supporting against an “unacceptable rise in racist, xenophobic and sectarian hate” in the UK.

The comedian has been a patron for the charity Neuroblastoma UK since 2016 after meeting bereaved parents of children who had the disease.

The new visual identity will be used across its funding programmes “under a cohesive and recognisable brand system”, says the grant maker.

The grant maker’s head of people and operations Nicola Purdy took the role on an interim basis in December last year.

A Community Interest Company (CIC) that raises money for and employs UK service veterans as street fundraisers has breached the Fundraising Code in a raft of areas.

A charity that supports homeless people is to close with trustees saying they “have not found a workable pathway to recover” from alleged “imprudent financial and operational decisions that were taken...

Essentia Foundation has handed eight charities in Scotland £250,000 each to improve the lives of young people, as it looks to close its operations.

The biggest “perception gaps” are in integrity, leadership and improving diversity.

More than 30 charities and organisations are to share £9.7m handed through energy regulator Ofgem’s Energy Redress Scheme, where energy firms make voluntary payments for rule breaches.

The updated Charity Governance Code features a greater focus on ensuring charity boards are promoting inclusivity.

“Clear and transparent reporting is essential to maintaining public trust in charities,” said Charity Commission for England and Wales chief executive David Holdsworth.

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said Julia Unwin, who was made a Dame five years ago for services to civil society, is an “outstanding candidate” for the £62,500 a year role.

The updated Charity Governance Code features a greater focus on ensuring charity boards are promoting inclusivity.

The Charity Commission has launched a statutory inquiry into the Islamic Human Rights Commission Trust amid concerns over funding it has handed to a non-charitable company.

Members of the union Unite working at homelessness charity Shelter are being balloted over strike action during their dispute over pay and conditions.

The Charity Commission has appointed interim managers to look at the finances of a theatre charity it is investigating.

The Charity Commission has appointed interim managers to look at the finances of a theatre charity it is investigating.

A conservation charity that manages 1,700 acres of land in the Torbay area is going into liquidation due to concerns over its finances.

The number one issue facing women in the charity sector is lack of career progression, a survey has found.

An expansion of the Dormant Assets Scheme into the investment and wealth management sector could unlock an additional £240m to support good causes, according to the scheme’s operators.

The UK national mapping service is to launch a search for a charity partner to improve digital inclusion in education.

Polly Neate, who was Shelter chief executive for seven years until March this year, is to join the House of Lords as a crossbench peer.

The Stroke Association has named KPMG partner Jason Parker, who had a stroke at the age of 45, as its next chair.

A grant maker, which has invested £70m in good causes since it launched two decades ago, is warning of a “deepening crisis” impacting funding for charities.

The successor body of the UK Youth Parliament, which ceased to operate last year after the charity that ran it was forced to shut down due to financial challenges, is now open for membership.

A PR firm is offering 15 hours of free support to charities to mark the clocks going back this weekend.

The convicted murderer was allowed to work with children in schools for almost two years despite being on the Disclosure and Barring Service’s barred list.

Former and current trustees failed to have ‘adequate oversight or control’ over more than 100 bank accounts belonging to the Christian charity.

Councils and charities are being urged to tackle barriers facing older people from giving up their time for good causes.

Trans youth charity Mermaids has appointed Johanna Hardy, the former head of services at single parents’ organisation Gingerbread, to be its next chief executive.

Academics examine the reasons why donors give more when the ‘emotional tone’ of language and narrative used in appeals is consistent

Cathedral charities are being urged by Charity Commission chair Mark Simms to ensure they are not being “swayed beyond the limits” of their mission.

The loss of 145 posts at the charity risks “undermining services and staff moral”, warns the union Unison.

Charities could be facing additional costs of more than £2,500 to their fuel bills from next month when an additional levy is introduced to meet cost of constructing new nuclear power station Sizewell...

Wild Planet Trust is looking to sell the two South West of England zoos it runs due to financial challenges.

Versus Arthritis has changed its name to Arthritis UK and refreshed its image after a consultation found its previous name was “not easily understood and was a barrier to engagement”.

Schemes run by housing charities, associations and social enterprises are more effective than government programmes at helping long term unemployed people and disadvantaged areas, analysis has found.

The leadership experts have pulled out of a charity event due to concerns around the involvement of weapons manufacturer BAE Systems.

An independent investigation has cleared a charity’s former interim chief executive of allegations made by staff around his social media conduct.

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MND Scotland’s interim boss Jane Haley has insisted the charity ‘remains open for business’ despite financial problems and the departures of its chief executive and chair.

A drugs firm in India has handed the Science Museum its largest donation to date from an international donor.