Labour has called upon the government to provide a £1m research fund for charities to develop policy on the long-term mental health effects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
An East Sussex-based animal welfare charity has launched a new website in a bid to increase online donations and become less reliant on legacy gifts.
Tackling youth unemployment should be a priority for all sectors, says Acevo CEO Stephen Bubb, as a new report by the Commission on Youth Unemployment warns that the issue has reached “emergency point”.
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Different types of fundraising require different return on investment ratios, right? Wrong, says Giles Pegram.
High net worth individuals take, on average, 36 days to decide whether to make a major charitable donation and when they do, the gift averages around $14,000.
Over £9m of an overall £20m has been awarded in the first window of the Social Action Fund to 16 projects in England.
Charity sector self-regulation is ripe for expansion, according to the new chairman of the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association.
Alzheimer’s charities say they should not be expected to subsidise a lack of funding from the government for dementia research, following a study which aims to increase capacity for dementia research in the UK.
Three UK-based charities are placed amongst the top twenty best NGOs in the world in a report by the Global Journal.
The Prince of Wales is today meeting with members from youth charities, both at his Clarence House base and in South London, to discuss the issues young British people face.
The Retail Trust Ball 2012 raised over £1m last night, after a flurry of pledges from the retail sector’s big hitters helped the charity meet its fundraising target for the fourth year running.
Disability action charity Scope has revealed a user-led rebrand based on inspirational images submitted by its beneficiaries.
Rowena Lewis is to join single parents’ charity Gingerbread as director of fundraising.
As January draws to a close civilsociety.co.uk takes a look at the Charity of the Year partnerships that have been announced for 2012 so far.
A 21-year-old music student has highlighted the issues of greed and wastefulness in the light of other
people's poverty in a 5-minute film called 'Live Simply'.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has cut 41 staff, citing the challenging economic climate for charities that rely on public donations.
Almost half of users who start an online donation fail to complete it, according to a new report which urges the sector to adopt a more personal approach to online donations.
Bill Gates has pledged a $750m vote of confidence in the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria after it was announced its executive director would step down following the exposure of a "grave abuse of funds" in several countries the fund works in.
Seven in ten voluntary sector employees are female, yet just over four in ten charities are led by female CEOs or chairs. And in charities with turnover of £10m or more, women are in the top jobs at just 27 per cent of them.
Children’s charity Kind has announced that its founder and chief executive Stephen Yip has been granted the freedom of the City of Liverpool.
Paul Stallard has joined the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association as its first paid chair, succeeding Michael Naidu who has been acting chair since 2008.
Dame Suzi Leather has urged charities not to run marketing campaigns that focus on minimal overheads and says it is charities’ collective responsibility to educate donors on the necessity of running costs.
The Variety Club has announced today that it will undertake a major rebranding including a name change to Variety, the Children’s Charity.
David Philpott returns to East Africa to see the fruits of aid spending first-hand in Uganda.
The potential for collaboration between foundations and the government and the strong underlying tensions between the two groups have been exposed by a new review of a previous project carried out by a coalition of funders.
Cancer Research UK is the first UK charity to implement TeamRaiser software from Convio UK and will use it to manage its Relay for Life fundraising website.
PTA-UK has joined with MyDonate to enable every Parent Teacher Association in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to raise sponsorship money and collect gift aid online.
Charity shopping website, Easyfundraising has announced that it has raised £3m since it launched in 2005.
A team of 40 of the world's most celebrated artists will donate artwork for an exhibition and auction to support homelessness charity Shelter.
Opposing the status quo is all well and good, says Robert Ashton, but much more effective if you can propose a proper alternative.
