Movers: Judi Rhys takes top role at the British Liver Trust

Plus: Public Concern at Work promotes Francesca West to chief executive; and Dara de Burca moves to the Children’s Society

The British Liver Trust, which supports adults with liver disease, has appointed Judi Rhys as chief executive. She joins from the same position at Arthritis Care.

The whistleblowing charity Public Concern at Work has promoted Francesca West from deputy chief executive to chief executive. She succeeds Cathy James, who has stood down after 12 years at the charity, the past six as chief executive, and who will return to the organisation in 2018 as senior legal consultant.

Dara de Burca, director of services at the cancer charity Clic Sargent, has been appointed director of children and young people at the Children’s Society. She will take up her new role in January.

Seafarers UK, which supports people in the maritime community, has welcomed Mairéad Ní Cheóinín as corporate fundraising manager. She was marketing and publications executive at the marine insurance provider Steamship Mutual.

The medical research charity Raft has promoted Elena Garcia from science team leader, regenerative biomaterials, to director of research.

David Bloomfield has become chief executive of the medical charity the National Migraine Centre. He was managing director of the consultancy PHC.

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Movers: Giles Webber takes up top job at Birmingham Dogs Home

Plus: Peter Aiers becomes chief executive of the Churches Conservation Trust; Helen Goulden appointed chief executive of the Young Foundation; Jack Lundie rejoins Save the Children and more

Birmingham Dogs Home has welcomed Giles Webber as its new chief executive. Webber, who was operations director at the Dogs Trust, succeeds Simon Price, who was asked to leave Birmingham Dogs Home after he was arrested in connection with an alleged £450,000 fraud at the charity. The police investigation into the allegations is ongoing.

Peter Aiers, director north and south east at the Churches Conservation Trust, has been promoted to chief executive. He takes over from Crispin Truman, who is taking up the top job at the Campaign to Protect Rural England.  

Helen Goulden has been appointed chief executive of the charitable think thank the Young Foundation. She will join in October from the innovation charity Nesta, where she is an executive director.

Jack Lundie has been appointed to the new role of centenary director at Save the Children. Lundie, who was director of brand and communications at Save between 2010 and 2014, has spent the past three years as director of communications at Oxfam. 

Citizens Advice has appointed Katie Martin to the new role of head of news, public affairs and campaigns. She will join on 29 August from Guardian News and Media, where she is head of philanthropic partnerships.

SYHA Hostelling Scotland has promoted Margo Paterson to chief executive. Paterson, who has worked for the charity for the past 16 years, was deputy chief executive.

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Amount paid in audit fees by top 5,000 charities rises by more than £2m

A new report from the data firm Charity Financials also shows Crowe Clark Whitehill earned the most in fees in the past year

The overall amount paid out in audit fees by the top 5,000 charities has increased by 4.4 per cent, according to a new report.

The data provider Charity Financials’ Charity Audit Spotlight for 2017, which is based on scrutiny of the latest accounts for the 5,000 largest UK charities, shows that audit fees cost them a total of £69.4m.

In comparison, last year’s Charity Audit Spotlight showed that the UK’s largest charities paid more than £67m in audit fees, which was itself a 2.5 per cent increase on the previous year. 

The report found that the audit firm Crowe Clark Whitehill has the largest market share, earning £5.7m in fees and accounting for 8.2 per cent of the market.

PricewaterhouseCoopers earned more than £4.6m in fees from charities and BDO earned almost £4.5m, the report says.

But rival audit firm haysmacintyre had the most charity clients in the top 5,000 with 263, followed by CCW with 240 and RSM with 236.

Haysmacintyre also gained the most new clients for the second year running, the report shows, with 30 charities appointing the firm and paying fees worth a combined £449,000.

The report says that while 328 charities changed auditor in their latest set of accounts, 27 per cent of the top 5,000 charities have not changed their auditor in the past decade.

The largest charity to change auditor was the Wellcome Trust – which is the UK’s richest charity – which paid Deloitte £300,000 to audit its latest set of accounts, the report says.

PwC audits the largest amount of charity income, the report shows, with £5.65bn scrutinised by the firm this year.

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Virtual mass-participation fundraising events enter top 25 for first time

Cancer Research UK’s more traditional Race for Life tops the income list for the fourth time in a row, but the British Heart Foundation’s MyMarathon has come in at 19th on the list, raising £1m

Fundraising events in which people participate digitally rather than in person have entered the list of the top 25 highest-earning mass-participation events for the first time.

The participation event that raised the most money for charity in 2016 was Cancer Research UK’s more traditional Race for Life, which topped the list for the fourth year in a row with £48m raised, according to a report compiled by the events company massive.

Second on the list was Macmillan Cancer Support’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, which raised £29.5m. The grant-making cancer charity Walk the Walk came in third with £8m raised through its Moonwalk event.

Massive has been compiling the list since 2013, but this year has been the first time that virtual-participation events – in which people track their physical activity online to raise money and awareness of a cause – have made it onto the list.

The British Heart Foundation’s MyMarathon, in which people run the 26.2 miles of a traditional marathon at a time and place, and in a way, that suits them, was the 19th biggest fundraiser, raising just over £1m. And at number 21, CRUK’s Walk All Over Cancer, which allows people to complete walking challenges, also raised about £1m.

Macmillan also had a virtual event in the top 25: its Outrun event, in which people choose how far they will run over the course of a month, raised £902,000.

The report says: “Outside the top 25 we’ve seen virtual events launched by a range of charities, based around running, cycling and walking.

“Whilst these campaigns have significantly lower overheads than physical events, whether these types of activity can achieve the scale and longevity of their physical equivalents and how developments in technology will enhance these opportunities remains to be seen.”

Macmillan and CRUK dominated the table, accounting for 11 of the events on the list and almost three-quarters of the total income reported by all the events combined.

Events that had been running for more than 10 years made up a third of the table and accounted for 76 per cent of the income, but 10 of the events featured had begun since 2012.

Although these newer events account for a total of only £25m of fundraised income, the report says their income is growing while income for the older events tended to fall in 2016.

The fastest-growing events were the Alzheimer’s Society’s Memory Walk, which grew by 69 per cent to raise £6.6m, Macmillan’s Brave the Shave, which grew by 62 per cent to £7.2m, and another Macmillan event, The Longest Day, which grew by 39 per cent to £1.6m.

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Top charity earners on a fifth of counterparts in financial services

An analysis of 52,000 jobs in London by Emolument.com says the top 10 per cent of earners in financial services receive at least £290k, compared with £61k in the voluntary sector

The highest-paid charity workers are paid about a fifth of what their counterparts receive in the financial services sector, research indicates.

An analysis of 52,000 salaries from jobs in London by the salary benchmarking website Emolument.com found that the top 10 per cent of earners in the financial services industry received at least £290,000 a year compared with £61,000 for those in the voluntary sector.

Of the 20 sectors analysed, the charities and not-for-profit organisations came out as the lowest payers on £67,000 a year, behind the public sector and education.

The salaries quoted are the lowest annual amount required to be included in the top 10 per cent of earners in each sector.

Financial services came out on top by far, with insurance in second place on £153,000.

The figures are based on information provided by people using the website’s benchmarking service since 2015 and include data from 835 charity professionals.

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