Human resources deals with the recruitment and retention of staff. Larger charities tend to have dedicated HR staff or even whole departments; smaller charities often park the HR function with the finance department.
A person responsible for HR may be expected to:
A charity which assists people with limited mobility in getting access to London art spaces is being forced to close after exhausting its funds fighting an unfair dismissal case.
The Charity Commission spent nearly more than £445,000 on recruitment advertising and services in the last financial year, and has budgeted to reduce the figure to £200,000 for the current year.
An Employment Tribunal has confirmed that an employee who is unable to take his pre-booked holiday due to sickness should be allowed to carry over his leave entitlement to the following leave year.
Charities that rely on temporary staff will see costs rocket after the government withdrew a key concession on 1 April.
From 6 April 2010, employees with more than 26 weeks’ service will have the right to request time to undertake study or training (also known as ‘time to train’).
Age Concern Scotland and Help the Aged Scotland have shed 25 per cent of their staff, with most over 50, in the run-up to their official launch next month as a single entity, Age Scotland.
Charities are struggling with the need to compete with the private sector to deliver public services, leading to low pay and stress for staff, according to a damning trade union survey.
The Shaw Trust’s new chief executive is intent on creating a new enterprise division that employs disabled people itself – and makes a profit from it. Tania Mason reports
The trade union Unite is holding a mass meeting at the House of Commons to lobby MPs on “deteriorating funding and employment conditions” in the charity and civil society sector.
From 6 April 2010, employees with more than 26 weeks’ service will have the right to request time to undertake study or training (also known as “time to train”).
The Charity Commission may be facing strike action after the Public and Commercial Services Union called a ballot on changes to the civil service compensation scheme.
Former PricewaterhouseCoopers senior manager Judith Twentyman has joined grantmaking charity the Impetus Trust as its new finance director.
Volunteering charity CSV has appointed Ruth Jenkins as its new director of finance following the retirement of former director Chris Snelling.
A funding crisis has erupted at the Royal Institution, the charity that exists to connect people with science, prompting trustees to scrap the post of director and make Baroness Greenfield, the prominent neuroscientist who held the post, redundant.
The Charity Employees Benevolent Fund has appointed former Charities Aid Foundation innovation head Gill Nunn as its new director.
Charles Mesquita has confirmed that he has joined Newton Investment Management as a director.
GuideStar UK director Les Hems has left the organisation to take up a new role as director of research at the Centre for Social Impact in Sydney, Australia.
Tearfund has settled out of court with the media consultant who was suing the charity for a reported £300,000 for negligence.
WRVS has established a fraud response team with representatives drawn from four different departments in order to tackle the changing nature of fraudulent activity going on both inside and outside the charity.
The Office of the Third Sector has announced that Rolande Anderson is to join as its new director general, succeeding Campbell Robb who leaves at the end of this month to join Shelter as chief executive.
With volunteers increasingly claiming employment rights, Victoria Cook outlines the safeguards for charities.
David Philpott, chief executive of the London Air Ambulance charity, has been sacked as he was investigating allegations about conflicts of interest and misuse of funds against some of the trustees.
The Charity Employees Benevolent Fund will launch officially on Thursday, six years after it was initially proposed and registered as a charity.
Volunteers are not protected by the Disability Discrimination Act because they are not covered by the term “occupation”, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled. In a case that will have implications for all charities that deploy volunteers, the Tribunal last week handed down a decision regarding the employment status of volunteers in the case of X v Mid Sussex Citizens Advice Bureau, concerning a volunteer who brought a claim for disability discrimination against the CAB.
Charities need to be liberated to enable them to use the tools of commerce if they are to make any dent in the world’s most intractable problems, US fundraiser Dan Pallotta told delegates at Charity Finance Live last month. In his address, Pallotta set the scene by reciting some depressing figures about the lack of progress made worldwide in the last few years on issues like breast cancer, Aids and malnutrition. “If we want change to occur at the rate of molasses we have a very suitable system for that,” he said.
The average salary for finance directors in the sector who participated in Acevo’s annual salary survey, is £49,397 – nearly £2,000 less than last year. The survey, based on a sample of 295 finance directors during the spring and summer of 2009, found that the lowest salary was £17,500 while the highest was £97,840. In 2008, from 221 respondents, the lowest was £19,000 and the highest £97,500.
Social care charity Quarriers has come to an agreement with its 2,000-strong workforce on proposed changes to terms and conditions. The charity entered a 90-day consultation with staff in July amid claims from the trade union Unison that bosses had threatened to dismiss the entire staff and hire them back on renegotiated contracts unless they agreed to cuts in wages and conditions.
The Compact Voice board has asked the chair of Local Compact Voice, Carl Allen, to stand down after passing a vote of no confidence in him. In response, Allen has asked the Office of the Third Sector to investigate the board's behaviour and competence.
The Office of the Third Sector’s director general Campbell Robb has been named as the new chief executive of homelessness charity Shelter. He will join on 1 January 2010. Robb (pictured) has spent three years at the OTS, where he led its creation, bringing together a number of different units from across the civil service into one organisation.
The Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST) has appointed Helen Fraser, managing director of publisher Penguin UK, as its new chief executive. Prior to her 13 years in charge of the world-famous book publisher, Fraser (pictured) was managing director at Reed Consumer Books and held editorial roles at publishers such as Collins and Methuen.
