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At the recent Third Sector Awards, specialist insurer Markel had the opportunity to speak to charities about the risks they face and how they manage them.

Khulisa works with young people in schools, prisons and in the community to help them understand and tackle the root-cause of their challenging behaviour.

Dominique Airey, CEO of Khulisa UK, discussed safeguarding risks and their developing business model.

As with most charities working with vulnerable people, safeguarding is a huge concern. Khulisa staff and volunteers work in prisons and other volatile environments so safety for both staff and participants is a risk. A constant need to review procedures and have multiple of points of access for communication is vital to the workings of the charity.

This need to review also links to Khulisa’s look towards sustainability and the future of their business model, which may be a move towards a commission based landscape and away from fundraising.

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Age UK grant will help older people get online

Posted: 16th October 2017

Older people who have never learned to use the internet will be helped online thanks to a £66,000 grant to Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland.

This grant will help Age UK recruit at least twenty “Digital Champions” to teach 2,000 older people to use communication tools like email, Skype and FaceTime; skills which younger people take for granted.

Digital Champions Project

The Digital Champions project aims to help older people to access online information on everything from benefits to bus timetables. With many services becoming digital by default, people who are not online face more hurdles in their daily lives to access both private and public sector services. There will also be an emphasis on online safety, and protection from viruses and fraud.

The project is supporting older people across  Leicestershire and Rutland with a focus on people in rural areas. It aims to combat loneliness by helping these budding “silver surfers” to keep in touch with family and friends online.

Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland’s Digital Champions will be holding up to four sessions a week across Leicestershire and Rutland. Sessions for groups of around 15 people will be held in libraries, village halls and residential homes. One to one lessons will also be available.

Tony Donovan, Executive Director at Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland said:

“We are very grateful to Leicestershire and Rutland Freemasons for their generous grant which will improve the quality of life for thousands of older people. More than four million older people nationally have never used the internet and we need to help them to benefit from all the advantages of a digital world that most of us take for granted.”

Leicestershire and Rutland Freemason, David Hagger said:

“We are very pleased to be able to support Age UK’s Digital Champions. As well as fighting loneliness and depression, getting older people online has great practical benefits. A household without internet access is on average £650 a year worse off.”

About Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland

Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland is an independent, local charity with a national name. The charity raises funds locally to support local older people with information, advice, services and support.

Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland offers a wide range of services for older people with physical frailty, impaired mobility, mental health issues such as dementia and learning disabilities and for those who are at risk of social isolation, loneliness, fuel poverty or financial abuse. Many services are free at the point of delivery.




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Scots more charitable than the rest of the UK, research finds

They are more likely to donate to or give time to charity than the UK average, according to figures published by the Charities Aid Foundation

Scottish people are more generous and more likely to get involved with charities than the UK average, according to new research from the Charities Aid Foundation.

In its report Scotland Giving 2017, which is CAF’s first annual overview of charitable giving in Scotland, CAF found that Scots are more likely to donate money to charity than the UK average, with 65 per cent of Scots saying they donate to charity each year compared with 61 per cent of people across the UK.

The report, which is based on a monthly tracking survey involving more than 700 people in Scotland carried out by the research company YouGov, also found that people in Scotland donated £813m to charity in 2016, accounting for 8.4 per cent of the £9.7bn donated to charity in the UK that year.

To put that figure in context, the population of Scotland is 8.2 per cent of the total number of people in the UK.

Scots are also more likely to volunteer than the UK average, with 19 per cent of people in Scotland saying they give time to charity compared with 17 per cent across the whole UK.

The report says that Scots are more likely to donate goods to charity, with 58 per cent doing so compared with the UK average of 56 per cent, according to the report.

Scots are also more likely to sponsor a friend or colleague who is raising money for charity, with 40 per cent doing so compared with 37 per cent nationally.

Young people in Scotland are more likely to be engaged with charity than young people across the UK as a whole, with 94 per cent of Scottish 16 to 24-year-olds having taken on some form of charitable activity in the past year compared with the UK average of 89 per cent.

Martin Sime, chief executive of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, said: “Through our own work over the years we’ve had a strong sense that people in Scotland are very supportive of charities, and it’s encouraging that in a number of areas this new research shows the picture is indeed somewhat rosier in Scotland than in the rest of the UK – for example in volunteering, and donations.”

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Chief executive of Cancer Research UK to stand down

Sir Harpal Kumar has been leading the charity since 2007 and plans to take some time to decide his next career move

Sir Harpal Kumar, chief executive of Cancer Research UK, is to stand down in the spring after more than 10 years in the role.

A CRUK spokesman for the charity said Kumar would take some time to decide his next career move.

Kumar was appointed chief executive of Cancer Research Technology, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CRUK, in 2002 before becoming chief operating officer of the parent charity in 2004. He has been chief executive of CRUK since April 2007. 

Kumar, who was knighted in the 2016 New Year Honours list for services to cancer research, said in a statement today he “always believed that organisations benefit from refreshed leadership every so often and CRUK is no exception”.

CRUK is the UK’s largest fundraising charity and had an overall income of £679.2m in the year to the end of March 2017. 

A statement from the charity said it had made significant strides in the fields of cancer prevention and early diagnosis under Kumar’s leadership.

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, chair of CRUK, said: “I would like to thank Harpal for his tremendous contribution to the charity over the past 15 years. CRUK is a truly remarkable organisation and even more so because of Harpal’s inspirational leadership.”

He said the charity had begun the search for Kumar’s successor and planned to make an appointment to coincide with his departure. 

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Ambition and UK Youth merge

The youth charities Ambition and UK Youth have merged, more than 70 years after having initial conversations about coming together.

Ambition, a membership body for organisations that work with young people in the UK, has become a subsidiary of UK Youth, which provides services to young people through a network of local youth organisations across the UK.

The charities said they would be able to achieve more by working together and would be better placed to respond to the challenges faced by young people today.

A spokeswoman for the charities said both organisations would keep their individual names and brands, although members of both charities will be consulted on future branding and priorities for 2018.

The charities will continue to have separate trustee boards, although five UK Youth trustees will join the Ambition board to take a majority position.

The spokeswoman said Anna Smee and Emma Revie, the chief executives of UK Youth and Ambition respectively, began discussing a merger shortly after Revie took up her post last September.

Smee will continue as chief executive of UK Youth, which has 90 employees, and Revie will remain chief executive of Ambition, which has six members of staff.

The spokeswoman said there had been no redundancies as a result of the merger, which was completed on 15 September.

Ambition and UK Youth will maintain their offices in Vauxhall and Highbury respectively, both in London, although it was likely that staff from both organisations would work across both sites, the spokeswoman said.

Both organisations have experienced falling income in recent years, with UK Youth’s falling from £8.6m in the year to 31 March 2015 to £5.3m a year later, while Ambition’s was down from £2.1m to £1.3m over the same period.

But the spokeswoman said both charities had reported healthy finances with strong reserves in recent years. “While this merger might allow for cost savings through shared services, it was inspired by a joint mission to provide all young people with access to high-quality and appropriate youth services in their local community,” she said. “Both organisations bring significant financial assets to the partnership.”

Records showed that the possibility of a merger was first discussed between the two organisations in 1945, the spokeswoman said.

Smee said the charities had a shared commitment to empowering young people and working in partnership with local, regional and national youth organisations to deliver high-quality services.

“Together we will be able to amplify the voices of more young people and respond to their needs by forging wider partnerships to deliver joined-up services in local communities,” she said.

Revie said: “We’re passionate about supporting youth organisations to provide high-quality services for young people, whatever their backgrounds or circumstances. By joining forces with UK Youth, I’m confident we have the potential to be greater together than the sum of our parts, and I’m excited to see what we can achieve.”

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The Colostomy Association becomes Colostomy UK

The Colostomy Association has changed its name to Colostomy UK as part of a rebranding exercise.

Clare Matthews, marketing and communications manager at Colostomy UK, said the word “association” did not capture the charity’s wide range of activities, which include campaigning and running projects as well as offering advice and information to people living with stomas.

She said there was a trend among voluntary sector organisations to shed the word “association” from their names and replace it with “UK”.

Matthews said: “We wanted to get the message across that we are more than an association for patients. We also wanted to refresh our image and engage with more people, particularly younger ones.”

The charity decided to rebrand in December last year. Its new look went live on Saturday and coincided with an open day at the Reading-based organisation, which employs seven staff.

Creative companies in Reading were hired to provide the new logo and website, but all the other rebranding work was done in-house.

Matthews declined to say how much the exercise cost, but said: “The sum was minute compared with most rebrands.”

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Legislation to introduce GDPR into UK law begins its journey through parliament

Legislation to introduce the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation into UK law has had its first reading in the House of Lords.

The EU’s GDPR legislation is due to come into force on 25 May 2018 and will bring in stricter requirements for organisations that process data than are currently required under the Data Protection Act 1998. It will allow the Information Commissioner’s Office to levy fines of up to £17m or 4 per cent of global turnover on organisations that breach the rules.

The Data Protection Bill, which updated the Data Protection Act 1998 by incorporating the GDPR requirements, was introduced by Lord Ashton of Hyde, the culture, media and sports minister in the House of Lords.

Bills are typically not debated at their first reading but will be discussed by peers at the second reading, which is due to take place on 10 October.

In overview guidance, the government said the bill would implement the GDPR standards, but also provide clarity on the definitions used in the GDPR in the UK context.

The bill includes a number of modifications to the GDPR on areas in which the EU allowed individual countries to set their own policies, such as the age from which parental consent is not needed to process data online, which the bill sets as 13, and exemptions to the rules for academic research, financial services and child protection.

The Charity Commission had previously expressed concern about the GDPR’s requirements for processing sensitive personal data, particularly concerning someone’s criminal convictions, which say that only “bodies vested with official authority” can process such information.

It is unclear whether this would include the commission. The commission said that if it did not, this could impede its ability to regulate effectively.

But in a statement announcing the bill, the government said the bill would allow the processing of sensitive and criminal conviction data without consent “where it is justified”, suggesting the commission would be able to do so.

“Organisations which already operate at the standard set by the Data Protection Act 1998 should be well placed to reach the new standards,” the guidance document says.

“The bill will mean that UK organisations are best placed to continue to exchange information with the EU and international community, which is fundamental to many businesses.”

It said the Information Commissioner was already working to help businesses comply with the new law from May 2018 and would be taking “a fair and reasonable approach” to enforcement after it enters the statute book.

In a statement on the ICO website, Elizabeth Denham, the Information Commissioner, said: “The introduction of the Data Protection Bill is welcome as it will put in place one of the final pieces of much-needed data protection reform.

“Effective, modern data-protection laws with robust safeguards are central to securing the public’s trust and confidence in the use of personal information within the digital economy, the delivery of public services and the fight against crime.”

She said she would provide her own input as necessary during the legislative process.

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UK falls to eleventh place in World Giving Index

The Charities Aid Foundation’s annual index put the UK in eighth last year; Myanmar has retained top spot

The UK has continued to slide down the list of the world’s most generous countries, the Charities Aid Foundation’s World Giving Index 2017 has revealed.

The UK fell three places from eighth in 2016 to 11th position on this year’s list, which gauges the generosity of countries by combining how much the public donate to good causes, how much time they spend volunteering and how likely they are to help strangers. The UK was in sixth place in the 2015 index.

The latest index, published today, is based on a survey of more than 146,000 people in 139 countries, asking whether they had in the past month donated to a good cause, volunteered or helped a stranger.

It says that 64 per cent of people in the UK said they had given money to charity, a fall of five percentage points on last year. The proportion of people in the UK who said they had helped a stranger fell by three percentage points on last year to 58 per cent, and those who said they had volunteered fell by five percentage points to 28 per cent.

Myanmar retains its position at the top of the list for the fourth year running, but has experienced a drop in its overall score, from 70 to 65 per cent.

Myanmar’s position at the top of the list is likely to be because of the high proportion of Buddhists in the country, the report says, but it acknowledges the achievement is likely to be contrasted with recent news stories about the treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country.

“At this point, it is important to remember that the World Giving Index measures only the charitable activities of the general population within a country, and does not take wider issues affecting society into account,” the report says.

“As such, we make no attempt to rationalise negative or mitigating factors in the World Giving Index.”

Generosity has reduced as a whole across the world, the report indicates, with participation in both donating money and helping a stranger down by 1.8 percentage points and volunteering down by 0.8 percentage points on last year.

Only six of the G20 countries appear in the top 20 and all have lower overall scores than last year.

Africa is the only continent to buck the trend, with an increase in its average score across all three behaviours when compared with its five-year average.

Sir John Low, chief executive of CAF, said it was too early to know if the overall fall in world giving was a cause for real concern, but it was a reminder not to take global generosity for granted.

“The big story this year is the amazing rise in giving across Africa,” he said. “Around the world, economic development is lifting the income of millions of people and it is truly humbling to see that the natural reaction to increasing wealth is to give back to society.

“Governments worldwide should make it a priority to encourage giving, build up civil society and seize the opportunity to translate economic development into a culture of generosity that will benefit everyone.”

Mike Smith, head of external affairs at the Institute of Fundraising, said: “We need to wait and see whether the fall in giving reported in this paper is simply an anomaly, or part of a trend.

“Donations from the public, from putting money in a collection box to leaving a gift to charity in a will, are vital. Asking people to donate to the causes they care about plays an essential role. About 81 per cent of people say that they donate to a charity only after being asked to do so.”

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Дефицит пенсий приводит к потере £ 1 млн для Cancer Research UK Group

<В эту историю были внесены поправки; См. Окончательный пункт

Cancer Research UK Group в прошлом году потеряла 1 млн фунтов стерлингов из-за своего дефицита пенсий, несмотря на значительное увеличение общего дохода благотворительной организации, показывают последние данные благотворительной организации.

Группа CRUK включает благотворительность и ее дочерние компании, которые включают в себя технологию исследований рака и исследование рака в Великобритании.

. На своих счетах за год до 31 марта 2017 года, которые были опубликованы в Доме компаний ранее на этой неделе, общий доход группы CRUK составил 679,2 млн фунтов, по сравнению с 635,2 млн фунтов стерлингов в предыдущем году.

Учетные данные показывают, что это частично связано с 32 миллионами сделок с недвижимостью от продажи Clare Hall за 14,5 млн фунтов стерлингов и переселением благотворительной организации из Ангела, Лондона, в Стратфорд, что спасло благотворительность в размере 17,5 млн фунтов стерлингов.

Но актуарная потеря на пенсию в 33,9 млн фунтов стерлингов привела к убытку в размере 9,1 млн фунтов стерлингов за благотворительность, при этом общий объем средств составил 347,6 млн фунтов стерлингов, свидетельствуют счета. Это сопоставимо с прибылью в размере 5,3 млн фунтов стерлингов за благотворительность в предыдущем году.

Общий объем средств для группы CRUK составил 383,5 млн фунтов, что на 1 млн фунтов меньше, чем в предыдущем году.

Счета показывают, что общие расходы в CRUK выросли с 629,8 млн. Фунтов стерлингов до 665,6 млн. Фунтов стерлингов, а расходы на благотворительную деятельность составили 472,6 млн. Фунтов стерлингов этой цифры.

Доходы, за исключением прибыли от имущества и торговой деятельности, составляют 545 млн фунтов стерлингов, по сравнению с 539,9 млн фунтов стерлингов в предыдущем году, согласно данным счетов. Это было связано главным образом с увеличением пожертвованного дохода на 8 млн фунтов.

На счетах также показано, что доход от наследства CRUK увеличился почти на 9 млн. Фунтов стерлингов до 186,6 млн. Фунтов стерлингов, но есть наследие в размере 22 млн. Фунтов стерлингов, которые не включены в данные по причинам, таким как коррупционные титулы или спорные случаи.

Самый высокий заработок благотворителя был исполнительным директором, сэром Харпалом Кумаром, который заработал до 250 000 фунтов стерлингов, по данным счетов.

В целом, благотворительная организация потратила почти 1,6 млн фунтов стерлингов на исполнительную команду, включая зарплаты и пенсионные взносы. На счетах было 188 человек, которые зарабатывали более 60 000 фунтов стерлингов в год.

Карли Вудхаус, глава отдела финансов Cancer Research UK, сказал, что дефицит в 1 млн фунтов стерлингов на групповых счетах вызван актуарными потерями по пенсиям. «Как и большинство крупных работодателей, мы предложили пенсионный план с установленными выплатами нашим сотрудникам, который сейчас закрыт. Мы приняли меры со стороны попечителей схемы, чтобы снизить уровень годового взноса и ожидать, что дефицит будет искоренен в течение 10 лет. Будут компенсированы резервами группы Cancer Research UK Group ».

<Первоначальная история неправильно заявила, что зарплата главы исполнительной власти составляет 244 миллиона фунтов стерлингов, но фактическая цифра составляла 250 000 фунтов стерлингов в год. Дальнейшие изменения были сделаны, чтобы было ясно, что цифры относятся к групповым счетам благотворительности.

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