"Trustees need to know, if they don't already, the pressure that third sector leaders are facing around the country right now." @markrusselluk.bsky.social on the important role for trustee boards in promoting the wellbeing of senior leadership teams. 🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/4mgVYk7

✍️ There has been a recent spate of charities adopting co-leadership models. Dami Adewale investigates the pros and cons

£19m fund closes a month early due to high demand

Whistleblowing charity promotes director to co-leader

Guide Dogs writes off £8m for software project that was never launched

Charity worker stole almost £30,000 from care home residents

The Fundraising Regulator recognises the harm being caused by a small number of CICs to the overall reputation of charitable fundraisers

Our top stories of last week included: ⚪️ Major merger between food redistribution charities ⚪️ Restructure at the NSPCC ⚪️ Winners of the Third Sector Awards revealed

🎧 New podcast episode! @lrouse.bsky.social and @emilyharle.bsky.social hear from the Fundraising Regulator's Paul Winyard on: ⚪️ The new Code of Fundraising Practice ⚪️ Commission-based payments ⚪️ The challenge of regulating CIC street fundraisers

Formal volunteering rates in Scotland have increased to 25 per cent, which has been heralded as an early sign of recovery

More than one in 10 charity sector roles paid below Real Living Wage

A man described as “the best chief marketing officer in Britain” has been appointed to the UK’s biggest fundraising job

An anti-extremism charity has denied allegations that it has breached its charitable status through political activity, after a Conservative MP urged the Charity Commission to investigate

The UK’s two largest food redistribution charities will merge in a bid to form a bigger and more ambitious organisation with greater national impact

"You don't apply to be a chief executive unless you've got a certain sense of ego. And I admit I've got one too." @markrusselluk.bsky.social explains why his ego and the @childrenssociety.bsky.social brand both need to be set aside to enable social change. 🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/4mgVYk7

🎧 Bonus podcast episode: The outlook for corporate partnerships @lrouse.bsky.social and @emilyharle.bsky.social examine the key trends over the past 12 months and hear predictions for the year ahead from C&E Advisory's Manny Amadi

Lived experience isn’t baggage we bring to the table. It’s about what made us, what we’ve seen and felt, and how that enriches what we offer - @zoeamar.bsky.social

UK would become a ‘dystopian state’ without volunteers, report warns

Former finance manager stole £21,000 from heritage charity

Regulator probes charity that has not filed accounts for four years

Top charity chiefs ‘five times more likely to be privately educated’

Rise in number of people who gave to charity last year

Corporate partnerships are proving resilient to anti-ESG headwinds, expert says

The Paralympian Pippa Britton and the lawyer Ann Phillips have been reappointed to the Charity Commission’s board

Most trustees believe that an overall sector strategy should be developed to help improve charity boards and governance

Founder and chief of digital inclusion charity to retire

About 100 union members at a mental health charity have said they are “standing firm” as pay negotiations with senior leadership reopen

"If councils can tender bin services for 20 years, why can't they tender children's services for five?" @markrusselluk.bsky.social on how extending commissioning periods would transform charity finances overnight. 🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/4mgVYk7

Nine posts have been cut but replaced with the same number of new roles, the charity says

Support charity plans to double its income over next decade

Legal aid charities set to receive unclaimed share of £25m train fare payout

UK’s largest equestrian charity rebrands

Charity set to pay up to £400,000 in legal fees despite winning defamation case

‘Visionary solutions risk being lost’ as environmental charity to close

AI expected to play an important role in future corporate partnerships, report finds

Charity pledges to rebuild after suspected arson attack causes £150,000 of damage

The Royal Voluntary Service has unveiled the name and logo of its new digital volunteering platform before its launch next month

Youth sailing charity to close and transfer ship to larger counterpart

Creative media charity chief to step down after more than 30 years

"Stories can help break down barriers to understanding by making the information overload less overwhelming, humanise intangible issues and build bridges to connect people with each other" - @awarley.bsky.social

NSPCC puts almost one in six staff at risk of redundancy

Winners of the Third Sector Awards 2025 revealed

Sector leaders must find ways to rebuild ‘reservoirs of resilience’, Children’s Society chief urges

Our top stories of last week included: ⚪️ A disputed legacy among animal charities ⚪️ Record income for Cancer Research UK ⚪️ A landmark hearing on trustee protections

🎧 New podcast episode! @lrouse.bsky.social and @andyricketts.bsky.social hear from @markrusselluk.bsky.social on self-care, board diversity and @childrenssociety.bsky.social's largest fundraising appeal podfollow.com/thirdsector/...

Even if sometimes our sector feels like a K-drama, with oddball characters, plot twists and the occasional dramatic exit, there’s often humour along the way – and the baddies usually get caught eventually - Debra Allcock Tyler

Hearing opens into ‘far-reaching’ case that could extend whistleblowing protections to trustees

Channel 5 president to lead Prince and Princess of Wales’ charity

Christian healthcare charity appoints global chief

SOS Children’s Villages UK ‘horrified’ at claims its Syrian counterpart played a role in child disappearances