Voluntary sector

Charities attack Tesco rules for evening-only collection of unwanted food

Groups warn they can’t find enough volunteers at night or distribute the food to homeless people effectively

Sarah Butler

14, May, 2024 @4:00 AM

The culture warriors have come for the National Trust. This is how we take them on – and win | Celia Richardson

Organised populists are trying to drag our cherished institution into polarising and divisive rows. The public won’t let them, says Celia Richardson, National Trust director of communications

Celia Richardson

09, May, 2024 @7:00 AM

‘A colonial mindset’: why global aid agencies need to get out of the way

With the world’s humanitarian system in crisis, many NGOs now recognise that local charities can deliver much more at far less cost

Fred Harter in Addis Ababa

07, May, 2024 @4:00 AM

CoppaFeel! breast cancer charity founder Kris Hallenga dies aged 38

Campaigner resolved to set up awareness charity after being told she had stage 4 cancer when she was 23

Caroline Davies

06, May, 2024 @12:24 PM

Fishmongers’ Hall heroes in housing project for ex-inmates

Many prisoners are homeless after release but former inmate and probation worker want to fix that

Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

05, May, 2024 @11:29 AM

Letter: Vince Power obituary

Cecilia Gallagher writes: From the start of his music festival work, Vince Power asked people on guest lists to donate £5 for charity

Cecilia Gallagher

30, Apr, 2024 @3:24 PM

Guide Dogs UK blames cost of living crisis as it plans 160 redundancies

Largest trainer of dogs in country is trying to prevent an estimated £20m funding gap opening up by 2026.

Amelia Hill

30, Apr, 2024 @3:23 PM

UK charities hiring staff with ‘privilege not potential’, report author warns

Exclusive: Working-class people less likely to get jobs in charities than public and private sectors, EY Foundation report finds

Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent

28, Apr, 2024 @5:00 PM

Wet weather but a warm welcome at Glasgow’s Refuweegee – a photo-essay

Katherine Anne Rose spent months documenting the Scottish charity, which welcomes and supports forcibly displaced people with the help of the local community

Katherine Rose

21, Apr, 2024 @9:00 AM

‘I was very nearly dead’: high achiever Martha Lane Fox is now on a mission to conquer mountains

After a car crash nearly killed her 20 years ago, the dotcom entrepreneur is climbing three peaks to make £300,000 for charity

James Tapper

20, Apr, 2024 @6:18 PM

RNLI says volunteers saved 355 lives last year, with London stations the busiest

Figure was a significant drop on 2022, when 506 lives were saved by lifeboat crews and lifeguards

Robyn Vinter

08, Apr, 2024 @4:00 AM

Staff and bosses at Royal Society of Arts accuse each other of threats and lies in pay row

A labour dispute at the historic charity, one of the most bitter the sector has seen, has spilled into the public sphere

Tom Wall

06, Apr, 2024 @11:00 AM

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