Day: 24 March 2024

Charity Commission stresses independence in five-year strategy

Stuart Mitchell

The Charity Commission for England and Wales has launched its five-year strategy, setting out its core purpose and strategic priorities for 2024-2029. The strategy embeds the regulator’s ambition to be fair, balanced, and independent, in setting out five key priorities for the next five years. The ongoing cost-of-living crisis, and the disruption brought by the pandemic, have tested the resilience of many charities, whilst highlighting their central importance to society – and the strategy says financial resilience will be a central issue in the coming five years. The strategy also…

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The Road Ahead 2024: Opportunities and challenges for the voluntary sector

Stuart Mitchell

NCVO have released their The Road Ahead 2024 report and posted the following on their website here: This year is certain to have more than its fair share of political, economic, and social change. But we’ve also entered a year of choices, challenges, and opportunities. Our latest Road Ahead report analyses major trends and issues for 2024 to help chart a path through the year. As well as helping you and your organisation to make decisions, this analysis also demonstrates how we at NCVO deliver – and adapt – the…

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New Funding to Uncover and Celebrate Working Class Heritage

Stuart Mitchell

The untold stories of a bacon factory in Wiltshire, a Grade II listed former rhubarb farm in Leeds’ ‘Rhubarb Triangle’, and the tradition of pigeon racing in North Yorkshire are among 56 new projects that Historic England will be funding across the next 2 years to celebrate working class histories through its Everyday Heritage Grant programme. Historic England received over 380 applications and has chosen to fund 56 community-led projects that will explore diverse stories of people and places at the heart of English history. The total amount of funding…

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The End Of Legacies? Research Shows Where Charities Should Focus Efforts To Maximise Income

Stuart Mitchell

Almost three quarters (74%) of people have not thought about leaving a gift to charity in their will, new research from law firm Shakespeare Martineau has revealed. While charity legacy income rose by 8% to £3.9bn in the year to the end of June 2023, according to Smee&Ford, in a survey of more than 1,000 people, just 7% say they have formalised leaving a gift to charity in their will. However, a further 1 in 6 (16%) people have thought about doing so but have made no formal provisions –…

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Transparency standard to inform global response to biodiversity crisis

Stuart Mitchell

As nature faces unprecedented pressures, with human activity the leading cause for one million animal and plant species being pushed to the brink of extinction, GRI has published a major update to its Biodiversity Standard. Setting a new global benchmark in accountability for biodiversity impacts, GRI 101: Biodiversity 2024 supports organizations around the world to comprehensively disclose their most significant impacts on biodiversity, throughout their operations and value chain. Enabling companies to meet growing demands from multiple stakeholders for information on biodiversity impacts, the GRI Biodiversity Standard delivers: Full transparency…

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