Catch up on another 2025 highlight as Cambridge House’s CEO faced questions from the charity sector’s most feared anonymous interviewer...

Earlier this year Barrow Cadbury Trust CEO Asif Afridi discussed his first weeks in the role and reflected on how civil society progressed since a major inquiry in 2018…

The Shaw Trust’s chief executive discusses his career change from the armed forces, his people-focused ethos leading one of the UK’s largest charities, and his perspectives on the challenges and changes facing the sector…

Interview: @nyasservices.bsky.social boss Rita Waters shares her favourite festive films, dream dinner guests and unusual choice for best Christmas song

Employees of homelessness charity @sheltercharity.bsky.social have voted to accept a reduced working hours deal after previously planning strike action over a breakdown in negotiations

The government has been urged to ensure that charities and state bodies have the resources they need to implement the Civil Society Covenant

The Court of Appeal has dismissed a barrister’s claims that LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall persuaded her former employer to discriminate against her based on her gender-critical beliefs.

A large funder has launched a programme in a bid to address the lack of diversity on charity boards

Former Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich has been told he must donate the more than £2.5bn he received from the club’s sale three years ago to humanitarian causes or face court action

A disqualification order against the two founders of a children’s education charity has been held after an unsuccessful appeal at tribunal.

The chair of a select committee has criticised the government for being too slow in closing a legal loophole that could lead to membership charities losing millions of pounds

Scope has cut 54 roles as part of a corporate restructure and closed most of its charity shops in an effort to address a growing operating deficit

Leaders from Barclays Private Bank explore how charity investors can navigate AI-driven market volatility

Arrests have been made after a string of thefts on charity clothes banks leading police to seize £20,000

In this episode, Lily Caswell, head of retail and volunteering, and Jo Turner, chief executive of Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity, discuss what it is like to work for a local organisation, the changing face of the charity sector and supporting the community

Legal experts from Bates Wells criticise the government’s recent move to exempt some charities from law changes to ex gratia payments

The Northern Ireland charities regulator has opened a statutory inquiry into the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI) following the church’s recent announcement regarding its safeguarding failings.

Leonard Cheshire has reported a second consecutive operating surplus, but continued to make several redundancies in 2024-25, according to its recently published accounts.

An Oxfam trustee has criticised the “brutal” dismissal of the charity’s chief executive who had allegedly filed a grievance complaint against its former chair

An annual festive livestreaming fundraising event has raised over £3m for good causes

Alison Taylor of CAF Bank: How charities can assess their financial strategies for 2026

The government has asked sector experts to apply for membership of an advisory body it has set up to drive implementation of this year’s Civil Society Covenant

The chief executive of Oxfam GB has left the charity after “serious concerns” were raised over leadership and governance at the organisation

In this fortnightly column, Civil Society looks at funding pots available to the UK charity sector…

Marie Curie has said it is committed to restoring financial balance in 2027 after recording a third consecutive annual operating deficit and making nearly 200 redundancies

Save the Children International expects to lose £30m annually after the charity decided to stop bidding for a country-specific UN funding pot to enable local organisations to access the money

Bookings have opened for ELEVATE 2026, which will take place on 11 March 2026 at the Royal College of Physicians in London

Royal National Institute of Blind People chief executive Matthew Stringer will leave the charity this month after facing a plethora of complex challenges over the almost seven years of his tenure

Charities’ employees, volunteers and beneficiaries are feeling “increasingly unsafe” against a backdrop of growing hostility, fear and operational disruption linked to growing social and political division around the UK, @ncvo.bsky.social has warned

A historic music charity has received its largest ever gift in more than 200 years of existence from the widow of an influential postwar ship owner

An animal charity has sold off its last remaining zoos to a leisure company and will transfer 180 employees after battling “a series of crippling challenges”

The Charity Commission has been encouraged to issue immediate guidance following recent decisions by Girlguiding and the Women’s Institute to exclude trans women and girls from their memberships

A Scottish social care charity has become embroiled in a dispute with one of Glasgow City Council’s arms’ length external organisations over a £690,000 dilapidations claim

Regular formal volunteering rates in England have risen but remain below pre-pandemic levels, according to government research published today.

. @biggive.bsky.social’s flagship Christmas Challenge match-funding campaign has reported raising over £57.4m in one week

Most voluntary organisations are failing to meet their environmental targets amid “profound financial pressures”, according to new research

Blackpool’s Voice has failed to submit any accounting information to the commission since it registered, the regulator has said, and has been running with an insufficient number of trustees since January

Donations over the Christmas period are expected to be £300m less than last year, with children and young people’s charities set to be hardest hit by “substantial” decreases

Interim commission chair Mark Simms has expressed concerns over the abuse some sector employees have faced from members of the public in recent months. The regulator today published guidance for charities on how to respond to the “hostile environment”.

The Cabinet Office has launched a feedback process for charities who feel like government department funders are limiting their ability to campaign or are otherwise dissatisfied with a government contract they have been asked to sign.

The Charity Tax Group has appointed a former Conservative MP as its first-ever chief executive after the 40-year-old organisation registered as a charity last year

Charities have been recommended by the Fundraising Regulator to self-publish an artificial intelligence policy to protect against “bad actors”

Who’s Moving: British Heart Foundation, Oxfam, NSPCC and more

The Big Help Out will return on 5-8 June 2026, marking the comeback of the volunteering event after a year-long break

Oxfam GB has reported a second consecutive annual operating deficit of more than £20m and confirmed that over 140 staff members were made redundant in a restructure this year

Face-to-face fundraising (F2F) has remained “resilient”, according to a new report, which found a similar number of overall sign-ups since before the Covid-19 pandemic.

A wildlife charity has been ordered to pay more than £30,000 in compensation to a conservation officer who it wrongly dismissed

The Charity Commission has confirmed it is not responsible for enforcing equality legislation after the Women’s Institute and Girlguiding announced changes to their membership policies www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/commiss...

A further 12 charities have been investigated by the Charity Commission as part of its class inquiry into concerns about cheques being exchanged for cash

Islamic Relief has received a public apology and been paid damages by the broadcaster GB News after it aired unfounded allegations related to terrorism funding.