Emily Moss

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Junior Reporter at Civil Society News

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Charitable funders urged to start measuring wellbeing to assess impact

1 day ago | civilsociety.co.uk | Emily Moss

Homepage News Charitable funders urged to start measuring wellbeing to assess impact A new report from sector think tank PBE has recommended that charitable funders should start to measure wellbeing in order to understand “the true value” of social impact programmes that they fund. Published today, the report says that wellbeing measurement has increasingly become a “simple and pragmatic way” to capture what matters most to many voluntary sector organisations and funders. As a signifier of...
Regulator updates trustee recruitment guidance to help charities ‘broaden reach’

2 days ago | civilsociety.co.uk | Emily Moss

The Charity Commission has today updated its guidance for charities recruiting trustees, with an expanded section on inducting new recruits. Its revised CC30 guidance focuses on steps that charities can take to connect with a broader range of candidates, and to remove barriers that may deter potential trustees from applying.
Sector umbrella body announces redundancies in bid to close £500,000 deficit

3 days ago | civilsociety.co.uk | Emily Moss

The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) has placed 17 staff members at risk of redundancy in a bid to close a budget deficit of half a million pounds. SCVO’s publication Third Force News (TFN) yesterday published an article confirming the plans, to which the umbrella body’s board have agreed as part of a restructure. A voluntary redundancy process had already been opened up in February in an initial attempt for the organisation to close its budget deficit.
Who’s Moving: Mind, Framework and more

4 days ago | civilsociety.co.uk | Emily Moss

Eating disorder charity, Beat, has announced the appointment of Vanessa Longley as its new CEO. Longley joins Beat with extensive leadership experience in mental health and youth sectors; most recently as chief executive of early intervention charity Chance UK. She will be taking over from interim chief executive Robin Hepburn and will officially assume her new role on Monday 16 June 2025.
Award-winning former charity director pleads guilty to £860,000 fraud

1 week ago | civilsociety.co.uk | Emily Moss

A charity director who previously won an award for her cross-community work in Northern Ireland pleaded guilty to fraud charges involving a sum of over £860,000. Wendy McBean had initially denied all 25 charges of fraud against her, but on 7 May, entered guilty pleas for eight of the charges, involving a sum of £862,574. The Irish News reported that 17 other similar charges remain on the bill of indictment and are the subject of discussions between the prosecution and McBean’s defence team.
Property sales blocked at Liverpool charity as investigation opens

1 week ago | civilsociety.co.uk | Emily Moss

The Charity Commission has announced that it has opened a statutory inquiry into a Liverpool-based charity and issued an order to prevent its property from being sold. CG Community Council was established in the 1960s to support the education, health and leisure time of local people in the Liverpool areas of Croxteth and Gillmoss.
Alzheimer’s Research UK CEO reveals plan to double charity’s income to £130m

1 week ago | civilsociety.co.uk | Emily Moss

Alzheimer’s Research UK is looking to double its income in the coming years to £130m, the charity’s chief executive has said. Speaking in the latest issue of Fundraising Magazine, Hilary Evans-Newton said that the charity had been on a “growth trajectory” for the last decade across its fundraising portfolio. Evans-Newton added that the charity was hoping to double its current income to £130m “by the early 2030s”, in order to be able to deliver on the projects it wants to fund.
Concerns expressed as quarter of entry-level charity roles pay below real living wage

1 week ago | civilsociety.co.uk | Emily Moss

Concerns have been expressed over salaries in the charity sector as new research shows that a quarter of entry-level and junior roles pay below the real living wage. The recently published CharityJob Salary Report 2025, based on data from 55,486 sector jobs listed last year, also found that the median salary in the sector increased by 3% to £35,000 in 2024.
Charity AI Task Force calls for more engagement from government

1 week ago | civilsociety.co.uk | Emily Moss

The newly formed Charity AI Task Force has today called on the government to engage more with the sector on its plans for the technology. In response to the government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan, the sector group warned that current proposals risk overlooking contributions from civil society. Published in January as a “blueprint to turbocharge AI”, the government’s plan does not mention charities or voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations.
‘Political’ conversion therapy group’s charity registration rejection upheld

2 weeks ago | civilsociety.co.uk | Emily Moss

A tribunal has rejected an appeal from a pro-conversion therapy group whose attempt to register as a charity was rejected, after ruling that it had a “political purpose”. A ruling from the charity tribunal this week upheld the Charity Commission’s decision that the International Foundation for Therapeutic and Counselling Choice (IFTCC) should not be granted charitable status after reaching the conclusion that it “undoubtedly had a political purpose”.