Charities working internationally may face particular risks due to their operating environment including the application of financial sanctions, greater levels of corruption or criminal activity and the presence of terrorists, proscribed groups or designated entities. As a risk-led regulator, we …
Today is Local Charities Day, an initiative launched by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to help small, local charities and community groups thrive and demonstrate the great work they do.
The impact fraud can have on a charity’s good work, beneficiaries, and reputation can be immense. The National Crime Agency tell us that charities, along with individuals and the private sector, “lose billions of pounds each year to fraud”. Clearly …
The Commission is only too aware, through our casework and conversations with charities, of the financial difficulties that many are facing. Over the past year we’ve seen a number of charities, some high profile, get into financial difficulties – the …
Over the past few years, the Commission’s Outreach team has run a number of workshops for charities working internationally, including those operating in high-risk areas.
Last month we published our 2015-16 Annual Report. Today I want to tell you about what we will be doing this year to achieve our strategic plan.
It’s a year since we launched the new edition of the Essential Trustee (CC3) and kicked off a campaign to get every trustee to read it. And I wanted to share some reflections on this campaign and our results so …
A month ago we released a report on public trust and confidence in charities which showed a significant fall in trust. Since then we have convened a meeting of senior leaders in charities to talk about joint work in the sector …
In my last blog I looked at how the public could choose charities to donate to or volunteer for.
Working at The Charity Commission, people often ask me if they should support a particular charity.
It is estimated by the Muslim Charities Forum that British Muslims gave approximately £100 million to charitable causes during the month of Ramadan this year. To give some context, that equates to approximately £38 a second.
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