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“This increase may be partly due to difficult decisions that charities are having to take in response to financial pressures, as well as wider societal tensions resulting in challenging circumstances facing charities,” warns the Charity Commission.

The Africa Centre says it is considering the move amid declining income and ‘the significant cost of maintaining a large cultural building’.

Stoke Air Ambulance was found in breach of the Fundraising Regulator’s code earlier this year and is subject to an ongoing Charity Commission investigation.

Fewer than half of registration applications are being approved compared to almost three in four a decade ago, amid an increase in the use of technology by criminals looking to set up fraudulent charities and apply for grants.

Staff at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) have begun a period of “continuous and indefinite strike action” amid concerns over low pay, according to their union Unite.

Remaining funds from the John MacDougall Mesothelioma Trust have been transferred to another charity that also supports people with lung conditions, says the late Labour MP’s daughter Julie MacDougall.

Charities are facing an existential threat by being cut out of the giving process through the rise of ‘citizen fundraisers’ and increasing use of fundraising by companies, a report is warning.

The Fundraising Regulator has found that fundraisers for two linked community interest companies placed “undue pressure” on members of the public to donate.