Lancashire charities making a difference
Lancashire charities making a difference
This week, Mark Simms OBE, spent time in Lancashire, meeting with trustees, volunteers and staff from a wide range of local charities.
Road-testing our new investment guidance
Update (1 August 2023): Our refreshed investment guidance has been published. Read Investing charity money: guidance for trustees. A key priority for the Commission is to support trustees in managing their charities well. One of the ways in which we …
Migration and refugee crisis: charities can model a better kind of discourse
One of the hallmarks of our free and democratic society is the space it grants individuals and organisations to speak out on behalf of those in need. Quite rightly, this role often falls to charities. Our charities have a long …
Your new Charity Commission Account
Sam Jackson introduces ‘My Charity Commission Account’ and explains what it means for you and your charity.
Making a difference in changing times
Helen Stephenson thanks trustees leading their charities through changing, and challenging, times and invites all trustees to join in Trustees' Week 2022 (7-11 November).
Charities must show prudence to retain trust during crisis ahead
First published in the Telegraph newspaper on 14 July. There can be no doubt that we are living in tumultuous times. Last week’s dramatic events in Westminster have captured headlines around the world, while the war that continues to rage …
Cryptocurrencies: what are they, and should charities use them?
Over the course of human history, there have been several developmental leaps in the way in which people trade and exchange. Each has opened the door to transformational benefits, but also created new challenges and risks for society to navigate. …
Help us gather better data on charities
Can you help us test new ways of classifying charities? Data is a central theme of our work in the months and years ahead. Now I’m asking for your help with an early, important set of changes, which will impact each of the 170,000 charities on the register in England and Wales.
Your role in improving charity data
If the past few years at the Commission were dominated, as they were for so many others, by our response to COVID, then the years ahead will be dominated by data. How we collect, how we use it, and how …
Regulating charities offering complementary and alternative medicine therapies
Today, we published a summary of our case involving an organisation called Gerson Support Group, one of several cases we have opened examining the public benefit provided by charities offering complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies.
Charities Bill: the next steps
This week the Charities Bill received Royal Assent and passed into law as the Charities Act 2022. This blog covers what happens next, and the key changes charities can expect.