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• Gambling levy plans forces charities to subsidise anti-gambling harms work, lottery warns

  28-11-2024 17:53 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  Under the new plans, society lotteries will be charged a levy of 0.1 per cent 
  
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• Chris Packham and Caroline Lucas resign from RSPCA, alleging it was ‘legitimising cruelty’

  23-12-2024 14:08 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  The charity says it has taken urgent action on the allegations of poor animal welfare
  
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• Former St Giles Trust chief to lead charity founded by Prince Harry

  20-12-2024 13:36 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  Rob Owen will take up the reins at the end of February
  
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• Theatre charity closes after losing Arts Council England funding

  20-12-2024 13:15 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  Almost all of Freedom Studios' funding in 2022/23 came from the grantmaker
  
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• Third Sector's most-read stories of 2024

  20-12-2024 13:11 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  Our countdown, in reverse order, of the articles that performed best among readers over the past 12 months
  
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• Fundraising Regulator investigates charity aiming to provide a new air ambulance service

  20-12-2024 08:36 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  Stoke Air Ambulance hopes to raise millions of pounds to buy its own helicopter
  
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• Proposed community benefit society change could place ‘significant burden’ on regulator, lawyers warn

  19-12-2024 18:07 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  A working group from the Charity Law Association has responded to a Law Commission consultation
  
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• Hospices to receive £100m funding boost

  19-12-2024 17:19 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  But the money will not help with day-to-day costs such as the impending rise in employer National Insurance contributions
  
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• Major aid charity’s income drops by more than £30m

  19-12-2024 16:22 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  The charity, which has embarked on a series of cost-cutting measures, recorded a net deficit of £28.4m in 2023/24
  
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• More action needed to tackle charity banking challenges, regulator says

  19-12-2024 15:43 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland charities ‘deserve support but instead face additional hurdles and red tape’
  
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• Edinburgh funding cuts will cause ‘inevitable closures’, charities warn

  19-12-2024 07:59 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  More than 60 charities will be affected by the reductions
  
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• Festive gaming livestream raises more than £2.6m for charity

  18-12-2024 16:48 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  Eight charities benefitted from this year’s fundraising event, which involved some of the UK’s biggest Twitch streamers
  
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• Barrow Cadbury Trust names next chief

  18-12-2024 16:05 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  Asif Afridi, deputy chief executive of the equality and human rights charity Brap, will succeed Dame Sara Llewellin next year
  
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• MPs vote against charity exemptions from employer National Insurance increase

  18-12-2024 15:35 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  A number of amendments were tabled that would have reduced the burden of the increase on the voluntary sector but they were rejected by the House of Commons
  
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• UK is the second most generous country in the world, GoFundMe says

  17-12-2024 17:30 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  Liverpool is ranked as the country’s most generous city following its response to the Southport stabbings
  
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• Government lays out plans for multi-year funding settlements in English Devolution white paper

  17-12-2024 16:39 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  The government hopes to end the ‘cap-in-hand’ approach to local authority funding, the Deputy Prime Minister says
  
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• Single-parent family charity chief steps down

  17-12-2024 16:25 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  The charity has started recruitment for an interim chief and will be seeking a permanent replacement next year
  
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• Garden charity chief to retire

  17-12-2024 08:18 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  George Plumptre will leave the job next summer after 15 years in post
  
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• Charity withdraws from £100,000 council contract due to 'irreconcilable differences'

  17-12-2024 08:01 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  The charity says 'the current circumstances pose an unacceptable level of financial risk to our organisation'
  
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• £1m from Omaze prize draw guaranteed for British Heart Foundation

  17-12-2024 01:43 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  The grand prize includes a manor house worth more than £4m and £250,000 in cash
  
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• Health charity’s income rises by more than £12m

  17-12-2024 01:30 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  The charity’s income has increased by more than 77 per cent in the past decade
  
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• Local infrastructure organisation appoints next chief

  17-12-2024 01:00 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  Jeff Scales joins the charity from the membership body Locality
  
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• Charities should adopt behavioural principles to overcome negative donation trends, research finds

  17-12-2024 01:00 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  Behavioural science can be used to engage donors and curb the trend of people giving less, the report says
  
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• National Insurance hike ‘threatens the very sustainability’ of Northern Ireland’s voluntary sector

  16-12-2024 17:44 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  The increase could cause widespread service reductions and job losses, the chief executive of Nicva says
  
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• Acevo cuts expected deficit by £150,000, latest accounts show

  16-12-2024 17:31 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  The charity started the year expecting to make a deficit of £175,000 but managed to reduce this to £25,000
  
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• Tributes paid to ‘force of nature’ who helped establish Chartered Institute of Fundraising

  16-12-2024 16:17 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  Judith Rich worked with more than 30 charities and was the ‘driving force’ behind Cards for Good Causes, where she was a director from 1977 to 2000
  
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• Only one-quarter of the top-paying charities name their highest earner

  16-12-2024 08:29 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  Research for Third Sector's Charity Pay Study 2024 shows that only 26 out the top 100 highest-paying charities reveal the identity of the person on the biggest wage
  
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• One in three disability charities considering handing back local government contracts

  16-12-2024 08:04 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  Changes in the Budget are ‘set to push charities to the brink’, the chief of the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group warns
  
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• Youth charity awarded ‘game-changing’ £1m prize

  16-12-2024 07:36 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  The funding will allow the charity to launch a programme supporting young people with poor mental health to secure employment
  
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• Oxfam’s pay proposals risk creating ‘two-tier system’, union warns

  13-12-2024 17:53 via thirdsector.co.uk
  
  The charity says it is ‘fully committed’ to introducing an affordable system of pay progression
  
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