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4 days ago | 
thirdsector.co.uk | Emily Harle
Some of the most affluent places in the country are the least generous in terms of giving to charity, new research has found. The Charities Aid Foundation’s UK Local Giving report, which is based on a nationally representative sample of about 13,400 people, found that Kensington and Bayswater was the least generous parliamentary constituency by average amount donated as a proportion of disposable income.
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1 week ago | 
thirdsector.co.uk | Emily Harle
More than 80 charities have signed a pledge to include their salary information in their job adverts, within a month of a new salary campaign launching. The We Show the Salary campaign aims to encourage more UK employers to include salary information in all of their job adverts, to create a fairer, more inclusive and accessible recruitment process for job applicants.
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1 week ago | 
thirdsector.co.uk | Emily Harle
The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations has welcomed the Scottish government’s commitment to multi-year funding but warned that it “must go further” to create a thriving voluntary sector. The infrastructure body said that while the 2025/26 Programme for Government restated the government’s commitment to fairer funding for the voluntary sector, further clarity was needed to recognise, resource and support the voluntary sector.
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1 week ago | 
thirdsector.co.uk | Emily Harle
New fund allows charities to ‘pay it forward’ The £50,000 fund puts grantmaking power in the hands of charities by Emily Harle
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1 week ago | 
thirdsector.co.uk | Emily Harle
The National Lottery Community Fund has committed to building the “UK’s largest” community learning bank to share best practice with the voluntary sector. The grantmaker said it will build an online learning bank that enables communities to develop their work by accessing new ideas, evidence, applicable real-life solutions and discover opportunities for collaboration.
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1 week ago | 
thirdsector.co.uk | Emily Harle
The Story Museum has appointed the British Library’s head of cultural programmes as its next chief executive. Conrad Bodman will assume the role at the museum, in Oxford, towards the end of August. He will take over from Caroline Jones, who is stepping down after 11 years at the charity. Jones joined the charity in 2014 as a fundraising consultant before becoming executive director and chief executive in 2017.
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1 week ago | 
thirdsector.co.uk | Emily Harle
The Fawcett Society has appointed Penny East as its chief executive. East joined the gender equality and women’s rights charity today (Tuesday 6 May), bringing 15 years of charity sector experience to the post. She succeeds Jemima Olchawski, who stepped down in February to join the mental health charity Mind as its executive director of social change. Most recently, East was the director of external relations for the mental health charity Think Ahead, where she was in post for nearly four years.
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1 week ago | 
thirdsector.co.uk | Emily Harle
The government must engage with the voluntary sector on AI as a “matter of urgency”, the Charity AI Taskforce has urged. The taskforce, which was brought together by the charity Cast and the consultancy Zoe Amar Digital, said it was keen to redress the fact that the government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan made no mention of charities or civil society organisations.
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1 week ago | 
thirdsector.co.uk | Emily Harle
The Children’s Parliament has appointed Louise Hill, policy lead from Children First, as its new director. Hill, who takes up the role today, succeeds founding director Cathy McCulloch, who is leaving after more than 30 years leading the Scottish children’s voice charity. McCulloch will continue to advocate for children’s rights through her role as a trustee of STV Appeal and by providing bespoke support to individuals and organisations around rights-based practice.
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1 week ago | 
thirdsector.co.uk | Emily Harle
Fifty-year-old childcare charity merges into larger children’s organisation The childcare charity will retain all existing services under its new parent organisation by Emily Harle
