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

Bill Turnbull returns £5k NHS awards night fee after charity concerns

Veteran BBC Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull (pictured) has paid back more than £5,000 he earned for hosting an awards evening for an NHS Trust, after it emerged that charitable donations had paid for almost half of the event.

The event, for the Pennine actus hospitals NHS trust staff awards and signed off by the Greater Manchester trust’s charitable funds committee, is now being investigated by the Charity Commission.

Daily Mail claim Sainsbury’s ‘lags behind its rivals’ on charity plastic bag levy

The Daily Mail has accused supermarket retailer Sainsbury’s of lagging behind its rivals by giving “just 1p per carrier bag” to charity and says it refuses to reveal exactly how much it donates from the levy to the sector.

Age UK Enfield chair admits ‘difficult’ period for charity amid criticism and resignations

The chair of Age UK Enfield has admitted that the charity is facing “difficulties” after a number of high profile resignations and the emergence of a £158,000 deficit which has forced the charity to move to smaller headquarters.

Daily Mail attacks Which? chief executive

Stephen Glover, a columnist for the Daily Mail, has attacked Which? chief executive Peter Vicary-Smith’s £819,000 a year salary and said they he “will no longer give to charities whose bosses take home fat cat salaries”.