
Youth fund almost 10 times oversubscribed in just three weeks
UK Youth says it received an overwhelming number of applications for funding totalling £90m over three years for a £10m fund

Charity pledges to review its guidelines after publishing images of 16-year-old rape survivor
Médecins Sans Frontières, which has taken down the pictures after an outcry on social media, says it wants to avoid such ‘misjudgements in the future’

Complaints about adverts from non-commercial organisations up by more than quarter
The Advertising Standards Authority says the majority of the complaints in this bracket relate to charities

Regulator promises to 'fundamentally shift' how it communicates with charities
The Charity Commission says that over the next three years it will move away from communicating solely with organisations to engage proactively with individual trustees

Macmillan Cancer Support makes senior appointment
Dr Claire Taylor will become the charity’s chief nursing officer in June

DEC's Ukraine appeal awarded world record
The £62m raised in the first week of the fundraiser has been recognised by Guinness World Records

St Mungo’s appoints interim head after death of previous chief
Rebecca Sycamore joined St Mungo’s as part of its merger with the homelessness charity Broadway in 2014

St Mungo’s chief executive dies aged 57
Steve Douglas had led the homelessness charity for almost two years

Put people, not processes, at the heart of volunteering, charities urged
The Vision for Volunteering, drawn up by a partnership of five charities, sets out what the activity could look like by 2032

Commission will be tough on wrongdoing but ‘more benign’ about mistakes, new chair promises
Orlando Fraser was making his first public comments since being appointed in April

Charities can make climate-friendly investments even if it means lower returns, High Court rules
The judgment will enable trustees to exclude investing in areas that contribute to climate change