The new civil society strategy is an encouraging start, but it “could have gone further” in clearly setting the government’s role in a number of charitable areas and releasing dormant assets, the sector has claimed.
The government today published the highly-anticipated civil society strategy, announcing a number of changes to "strengthen the organisations, which hold our society together”.
A decision to force charities to pay for the Charity Commission’s services to help plug its current budget gap is “short-sighted” and “counter-productive”, the Directory of Social Change has argued.
The Charity Commission’s budget has been slashed from £40m down to £21m in recent years, triggering a debate around how the regulator should seek to plug the gap.
Reminiscence arts charity Age Exchange has merged with health and social care charity, Community Integrated Care.
The new merger aims to enable Age Exchange to benefit from Community Integrated Care’s infrastructure to grow its organisation and increase its reach. It also aims to enable CIC to elevate its existing dementia services and expand its offer to include Age Exchange’s reminiscence and dementia services.
East London Business Alliance 3rd Floor, City Reach 5 Greenwich View Place London E14 9NN
Contract end June 2020 (extension subject to funding)
This is an exciting new role to develop and deliver an innovative programme which will introduce practical measures to tackle the communication skills gap faced by people from disadvantaged backgrounds as they try to get into or progress in their careers.
The Company
Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis (OMS) Our client is a young, unique and dynamic charity bringing fresh hope to the MS community in the UK and around the world. From our Head Office in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire we raise awareness of a well-established, evidence-based approach to the management of MS symptoms and provide tangible support to those diagnosed with this condition.
There is currently an excellent opportunity for a Digital Content Manager to join our team on a full time basis.
One YMCA, which covers the Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire area and provides support across accommodation, family work, youth work, community activities and health & wellbeing. We are proud of our rich local, national and global heritage and we seek to live out inclusive Christian values through activities that cater for all ages, working with all faiths and none.
The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) is seeking to appoint two lay members to its Finance, Audit & Investment Committee. This is an exciting time to join the committee.
Compton Care partners with people to embrace life with a complex or incurable illness. The charity is a dynamic healthcare provider of specialist palliative care services and has served its communities for over 36 years.
We are looking for an experienced team leader and a skilled database administrator to manage customer services at our office in Maidstone.
The Customer Services Manager will be responsible for managing five staff and Kent Music’s customer and tuition management database. They will ensure that excellent administration and a professional and high-quality customer service is provided to the parents, schools and teachers of Kent Music.
Full Time, permanent (consideration given to part-time role) 35 hours per week
The Springboard Charity helps young people achieve their potential, relieves unemployment for people of all ages and alleviates poverty by supporting people into employment within Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism.
Working to recruit a team of over 1,500 volunteers for our annual Spring Harvest event is a great privilege; one which demands meticulous administration and warmth of character.
We are looking to transition the co-ordination of our volunteer recruitment into a capable new pair of hands. Working within our safer recruitment team requires integrity, as our highest priority when recruiting, is to ensure that Spring Harvest remains a safe place for our guests to be.
Flexible within Greater Manchester & Lancashire, Cumbria, Merseyside and Cheshire
We have a hugely successful track record of corporate fundraising at the Alzheimer’s Society. We’re now looking for someone to work on and develop our corporate partnerships portfolio in the North West.
on a scale from £33,989 to £39,913 per annum, including London Weighting, with a possible progression to £42,624
UKCISA, the national advisory body for international students and those who work with them, is seeking to recruit an Advice and Training Officer. You will join its small specialist team training, advising and lobbying on all aspects of international student policy, regulations and legislation as they relate in particular to Tier 4 of the immigration system, employment during and after study and tuition fee assessment.
THE CHARITY:
Overcoming MS is a small, yet rapidly growing and dynamic charity bringing a fresh approach to the multiple sclerosis community in the UK and around the world. We raise awareness of a progressive, evidence-based approach to the management of multiple sclerosis symptoms and provide tangible support to those diagnosed with this condition.
Our vision is to enable people with MS to live their lives to the full.
The MS Trust helps people live well with MS, by ensuring they receive the best possible care and the highest quality information. Over 100,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with MS, which remains the most common cause of neurological disability in young adults. Because diagnosis is usually in their 20s and 30s, the impact on the individual and their family is life changing and life-long.
Relationship support charity Relate has appointed Aidan Jones OBE as its new chief executive.
Jones was previously executive director of WorldSkills and prior to that, he held the role of chief operating officer at the World Scout Bureau. He will take up the role on 3 September.
The Charity Commission has appointed an interim manager at Capricorn Animal Rescue and Sanctuary amid concerns about the charity’s governance and management.
Interim managers are appointed to take over the running of a charity where the Commission has identified misconduct or mismanagement, or if there is a need to protect the charity’s property.
Sexual exploitation and abuse among the charity sector has been ongoing for a 'long time' and the sector is guilty of being almost 'complicit' in the scandal, a scathing report by MPs has revealed.
Bowel Cancer UK and Beating Bowel Cancer, who merged earlier this year, has unveiled its new branding, revealing the new charity will be called Bowel Cancer UK.
The charity, which merged in January 2018, will carry the strapline Beating bowel cancer together.
The charity sector must go further than “simple box-ticking” against their legal duties in order to improve safeguarding, the Charity Commission has said.In response to a report published today by the International Development Committee among sexual abuse and exploitation in the aid sector, the regulator said charities should be judged “not just by what they do or achieve, but by how they go about it”.
"Rules and regulations are essential in setting clear requirements and holding organisations to account if things go wrong, but they can only go so far. Without the right values, culture, and behaviours being set and lived by each and every charity, the safeguarding of everyone who comes into contact with our fundraising activities cannot be achieved."
The government is longing for a ‘shared vital mission’ with the third sector. But is the lack of trust and tightening of regulation causing a more obvious divide?
The 2018 Charity Times Annual Conference set out to provide delegates with insights into how key decision makers can work to lead their charities through difficult times, whilst taking the opportunities that present themselves.
Insider fraud is on the rise among the charity sector, but encouraging a culture of whistleblowing among charities could be the key to improving sector-wide resilience.
The ‘WannaCry’ global ransomware attack this May brought cybercrime into the limelight, affecting thousands of organisations. As a result of the attack, the Charity Commission said the third sector had to do more to protect itself. What more can charities do?
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