nfpSynergy will pay staff to watch the World Cup in an act of satire against what it calls the “over-estimation” of volunteering figures in England and Wales, based on the government’s lax volunteering definitions.

The University of Portsmouth Students’ Union has already secured a £15,000 grant since becoming the first student union in the country to register as a charity with the Charity Commission last week.

The Charity Commission has advised that it has not yet been consulted by the government on possible changes to the public benefit clause for independent schools, despite education minister Michael Gove’s assertion last year that the Conservatives would enter immediate talks to soften the rules if they got into power.

Peter Wheeler has been named as chair of New Philanthropy Capital’s board of trustees.