Street fundraising agency Gift Fundraising has gone into voluntary administration with the loss of 40 permanent jobs and around 300 street fundraising posts.

The Charity Commission has said it has no jurisdiction over Amnesty International making a valedictory payment of £530,000 to its former secretary general – now a Charity Commission board member - because the part of Amnesty that made the payment is not a charity.

A website has been created, purportedly by serving and retired firefighters, to highlight the "excessive" salaries paid to directors at the Fire Fighters Charity.

Acevo chief executive Stephen Bubb has written a stern letter to the CEOs of the top 50 fundraising charities challenging their reluctance to defend the sector on last week’s Newsnight programme about face-to-face fundraising.