Javed Khan, chief executive of Victim Support, has pledged to give £1 per employee in support of the Charity Employees Benevolent Fund, saying that it’s the responsibility of the UK’s larger charities to help charity employees during tough times.

Victim Support is in the Charity 100 Index at number 90 and has an income of £52.5m.

It has this week pledged to give £1 per employee in support of the Charity Employee Benevolent Fund (CEBF), which offers welfare advice and small grants to charity employees. Victim Support has 1,500 employees.

Javed Khan, chief executive of Victim Support, said: “This gift is about supporting all those who work in the charity sector, just as they have helped others where they had the chance. Victim Support is one of the UK’s larger charities and as such it’s our responsibility to help charity employees during tough times.”

Victim Support's move follows NSPCC and New Philanthropy Capital, which have pledged £1 and £3 respectively per employee to CEBF.

CEBF general manager Hilary Greengrass said: “We hope other large charity employers will accept the need these numbers reveal and adopt this sharing principle – it’s a relatively small amount of money and we certainly make it go a long way. Smaller charities, the majority, are often just not in a position to support their employees; this is about reaching out across the entire sector.”

CEBF has been in financial trouble in recent months. Former chief executive of the Charities Aid Foundation and CEBF trustee Michael Brophy, has said that without the support of large charity employers the benevolent fund may have to “hibernate, and if summer doesn’t come soon, shut down.”

The CEBF trustees will be giving consideration to a number of options for the fund's future including contracting an experienced volunteer to run the charity on a day-to-day basis for a period. This has the virtue of ensuring that virtually all income is spent on grants. Other options will also be explored.