Charities that rely on statutory funding should be listed as separate organisations to those that don’t, and should not be able to lobby against cuts, according to Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke.

NCH, the children's charity, is to change its name to Action for Children after a strategic review established that its current name was hindering its ability to make an impact with the public.

Professor Jenny Harrow and her team at City University have been selected to run the main hub of the Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy.

Novas, the charity that helps tackle social disadvantage through social enterprise, is to merge with the Scarman Trust and PATH to create a new social justice charity, the Novas Scarman Group.