Our regular round-up of the top stories about charities in the mainstream media. 

Glasgow charity forced to vacate premises after rent hike

A Glasgow based charity is being forced to vacate its warehouse after its landlord increased its rental rates from £1 a year to over £4000.

According to the Glasgow Evening Times, Glasgow the Caring City charity is being forced to vacate its Castlemilk warehouse by Friday due to the rent hike by City Property – an arm’s length firm of Glasgow City Council.

Ross Galbraith, manager of the charity, said it was “caught between the devil and the deep blue sea” and that it was “desperate for a new premises”.

Rickman left £100,000 to charities in will

The late actor Alan Rickman (pictured) reportedly left £100,000 to four different charities in his will.

According to the Independent, Rickman is understood to have donated the legacies in his will to a number of charities supporting the “dramatic arts and facial reconstruction”.

The Independent cites the Mirror in naming the charities as: The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Sponsored Arts for Education, the Facial Surgery Research Foundation and the International Performers Aid Trust, all of whom were left £25,000.

Café owner in dispute with Canal & River Trust over boulder

A café owner in Stockport has said that the Canal & River Trust has refused to move a boulder that is blocking access to his premises unless he pays them £10,000.

According to the Manchester Evening News, Colin Blease, owner of the High Lane Tea Rooms, has been locked in a land dispute with the charity since he opened his café in December 2015. Blease claims that a large rock, put in place while the premises of his café were unoccupied, is disrupting his trade.

Blease claimed that the Canal and River Trust have refused to move the rock, unless he pays them £10,000. The charity said that Blease's landlord “failed to agree to a formal agreement over access” when he purchased the premises.