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🎧 Podcast: How did the sector fare in 2025?
Join Lucinda Rouse, Emily Burt, Emily Harle and Andy Ricketts as they dissect the top stories of the year
Join Lucinda Rouse, Emily Burt, Emily Harle and Andy Ricketts as they dissect the top stories of the year
Third Sector: How did the sector fare in 2025?
Lucinda Rouse is joined by Emily Burt, Emily Harle and Andy Ricketts to dissect the leading stories from the voluntary sector in 2025.Lucinda delivers a speedy round-up of the year’s charity news...
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December 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
🎧 Podcast: How did the sector fare in 2025?
Join Lucinda Rouse, Emily Burt, Emily Harle and Andy Ricketts as they dissect the top stories of the year
Join Lucinda Rouse, Emily Burt, Emily Harle and Andy Ricketts as they dissect the top stories of the year
🎧 Bonus podcast: How the RNIB has navigated a restructure
@lrouse.bsky.social and @emilyharle.bsky.social discuss snippets from a recent interview with outgoing @rnib.bsky.social chief executive Matt Stringer
@lrouse.bsky.social and @emilyharle.bsky.social discuss snippets from a recent interview with outgoing @rnib.bsky.social chief executive Matt Stringer
Third Sector: How the RNIB has navigated a restructure
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle discuss snippets from a recent interview Emily conducted with Matt Stringer, chief executive of the Royal National Institute of Blind People.Matt provides insight into...
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December 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
🎧 Bonus podcast: How the RNIB has navigated a restructure
@lrouse.bsky.social and @emilyharle.bsky.social discuss snippets from a recent interview with outgoing @rnib.bsky.social chief executive Matt Stringer
@lrouse.bsky.social and @emilyharle.bsky.social discuss snippets from a recent interview with outgoing @rnib.bsky.social chief executive Matt Stringer
Matt Stringer: ‘Transformation is hard, no one enjoys it’
The outgoing chief executive of the RNIB reflects on leading through restructures, statutory inquiries and febrile political environments.
@emilyharle.bsky.social reports
The outgoing chief executive of the RNIB reflects on leading through restructures, statutory inquiries and febrile political environments.
@emilyharle.bsky.social reports
Matt Stringer: ‘Transformation is hard, no one enjoys it’
The outgoing chief executive of the RNIB reflects on leading through restructures, statutory inquiries and febrile political environments. Emily Harle reports
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December 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Matt Stringer: ‘Transformation is hard, no one enjoys it’
The outgoing chief executive of the RNIB reflects on leading through restructures, statutory inquiries and febrile political environments.
@emilyharle.bsky.social reports
The outgoing chief executive of the RNIB reflects on leading through restructures, statutory inquiries and febrile political environments.
@emilyharle.bsky.social reports
Our top stories of last week included:
⚪️ Oxfam GB's chief steps down in acrimonious circumstances
⚪️ Leonard Cheshire cuts jobs
⚪️ Music charity receives a £30m donation
⚪️ Oxfam GB's chief steps down in acrimonious circumstances
⚪️ Leonard Cheshire cuts jobs
⚪️ Music charity receives a £30m donation
The essential stories from the past week
The chief executive of Oxfam GB steps down in acrimonious circumstances, Leonard Cheshire cuts jobs and a music charity receives a £30m donation
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December 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Our top stories of last week included:
⚪️ Oxfam GB's chief steps down in acrimonious circumstances
⚪️ Leonard Cheshire cuts jobs
⚪️ Music charity receives a £30m donation
⚪️ Oxfam GB's chief steps down in acrimonious circumstances
⚪️ Leonard Cheshire cuts jobs
⚪️ Music charity receives a £30m donation
More than 100 people have signed an open letter urging the Charity Commission to take urgent action to support charities facing legal threats from transphobic pressure groups
Regulator urged to support charities facing legal threats from transphobic pressure groups
The regulator says it will update its Equality Act guidance once the Equality & Human Rights Commission publishes a new code
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December 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
More than 100 people have signed an open letter urging the Charity Commission to take urgent action to support charities facing legal threats from transphobic pressure groups
Air ambulance charity appoints next chief
Air ambulance charity appoints next chief
Mike McGrath joins after 14 years in various roles at the NSPCC
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December 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Air ambulance charity appoints next chief
“Doing good requires doing well.” Those words from Jack Catchpool, YHA’s pioneering Quaker founder, could not be more relevant today - James Blake
James Blake: Why strategy will save our sector
Strategy today must be fluid, responsive to the world as it is; not as we would like it to be
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December 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
“Doing good requires doing well.” Those words from Jack Catchpool, YHA’s pioneering Quaker founder, could not be more relevant today - James Blake
NSPCC fundraising chief to join the Canal & River Trust
NSPCC fundraising chief to join the Canal & River Trust
Tim Hunter will join the charity as interim fundraising director in February
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December 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
NSPCC fundraising chief to join the Canal & River Trust
Select committee chair urges government to close loophole that could cost membership charities millions of pounds
Select committee chair urges government to close loophole that could cost membership charities millions of pounds
Dame Caroline Dinenage says there is ‘widespread confusion’ among charities about the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024
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December 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Select committee chair urges government to close loophole that could cost membership charities millions of pounds
Major disability charity confirms 54 corporate job cuts and 73 shop closures
Major disability charity confirms 54 corporate job cuts and 73 shop closures
The charity has recorded its sixth consecutive operating deficit, accounts show
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December 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Major disability charity confirms 54 corporate job cuts and 73 shop closures
Arrests made and £20,000 seized in connection with charity clothing bank thefts
Arrests made and £20,000 seized in connection with charity clothing bank thefts
The thefts are believed to be connected to a Lithuanian gang
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December 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Arrests made and £20,000 seized in connection with charity clothing bank thefts
Resource challenges could slow progress on the covenant, leaders warn
Resource challenges could slow progress on the covenant, leaders warn
But leaders say the agreement could be a 'conduit for collaboration'
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December 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Resource challenges could slow progress on the covenant, leaders warn
Tribunal upholds disqualification orders against couple who showed ‘worrying disregard’ for charity law
Tribunal upholds disqualification orders against couple who showed ‘worrying disregard’ for charity law
The charity tribunal finds that Sharon and Neil Evans were ‘de facto’ trustees of the charity, which the Charity Commission found had been used as a sales platform for their private line of products
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December 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Tribunal upholds disqualification orders against couple who showed ‘worrying disregard’ for charity law
Hundreds call for regulator to investigate Oxfam GB after departure of chief executive
Hundreds call for regulator to investigate Oxfam GB after departure of chief executive
An online petition calls for the Charity Commission to investigate the events leading up to Halim Begum leaving the charity
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December 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Hundreds call for regulator to investigate Oxfam GB after departure of chief executive
Reduce bureaucracy and make funding practices ‘less prescriptive’, Arts Council England told
Reduce bureaucracy and make funding practices ‘less prescriptive’, Arts Council England told
The recommendations come in a review conducted by the Labour peer Baroness Hodge of Barking
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December 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Reduce bureaucracy and make funding practices ‘less prescriptive’, Arts Council England told
‘Deeply concerning’ fall in people leaving charitable legacies
‘Deeply concerning’ fall in people leaving charitable legacies
The wealth management company Rathbones warns the amount left to charity in 2025 could be £1.5bn lower than last year
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December 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
‘Deeply concerning’ fall in people leaving charitable legacies
Science charity reveals next leader
Science charity reveals next leader
Gwilym Gibbons has spent the past seven years at The Crichton Trust
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December 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Science charity reveals next leader
Scottish grantmaker increases annual funding pot to £30m and unveils new brand identity
Scottish grantmaker increases annual funding pot to £30m and unveils new brand identity
The increase is a response to rising demand and a greater complexity of need, the grantmaker says
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December 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Scottish grantmaker increases annual funding pot to £30m and unveils new brand identity
The former Oxfam GB chief executive has been “pilloried, defamed and stigmatised in a right-wing media frenzy” and will file an employment tribunal claim against the charity, a lawyer representing her has said
Ex-Oxfam chief to file employment tribunal claim, lawyer says
Lawrence Davies says Halima Begum has been ‘pilloried, defamed and stigmatised’ in the media after being forced to step down
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December 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The former Oxfam GB chief executive has been “pilloried, defamed and stigmatised in a right-wing media frenzy” and will file an employment tribunal claim against the charity, a lawyer representing her has said
Conservation charity appoints next chief
Conservation charity appoints next chief
Andrew Impey was previously the chief executive of the Essex Wildlife Trust
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December 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Conservation charity appoints next chief
The government is looking for about 12 people to join the new Civil Society Council early next year
Chair of covenant advisory body revealed as applications for membership open
The Civil Society Council will advise the government on the implementation of the covenant, backed by a team at 10 Downing Street
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December 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The government is looking for about 12 people to join the new Civil Society Council early next year
Regulator opens inquiry into church charity after longstanding safeguarding failures
Regulator opens inquiry into church charity after longstanding safeguarding failures
A report last month found ‘serious and significant’ safeguarding failures at the charity over a 13-year period
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December 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Regulator opens inquiry into church charity after longstanding safeguarding failures
A number of charity leaders have defended Halima Begum since the news of her departure from Oxfam GB broke
Oxfam GB chief leaves after investigation into staff concerns over culture
But charity leaders have defended Halima Begum on social media, urging the sector not to rush to judgement
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December 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
A number of charity leaders have defended Halima Begum since the news of her departure from Oxfam GB broke
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"The Covenant is not the relationship. It's a starting point where you need it."
@janeideceo.bsky.social on what's next for the Civil Society Covenant
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/3YfbUtk
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@janeideceo.bsky.social on what's next for the Civil Society Covenant
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/3YfbUtk
@acevo.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"The Covenant is not the relationship. It's a starting point where you need it."
@janeideceo.bsky.social on what's next for the Civil Society Covenant
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/3YfbUtk
@acevo.bsky.social
@janeideceo.bsky.social on what's next for the Civil Society Covenant
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/3YfbUtk
@acevo.bsky.social