The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into educational charity Avicenna Global due to concerns over potential misconduct and mismanagement at the Sheffield-based charity

The Charity Commission has revealed it is undertaking a class statutory inquiry into London-based charities alleged to be involved in a scheme to launder £10m from the sale of counterfeit erectile dysfunction and slimming pills

The trustees of international UK charities need to focus more on the risks associated with safeguarding and the impact of Brexit, which are being neglected in favour of a concentration on future funding and financial sustainability, according to research from Haysmacintyre

The Charity Commission is to investigate the funds raised by an unregistered organisation, Sikh Youth UK, as the money is classed as being charitable and there have been warnings over financial management

The Charity Commission has opened two separate statutory inquiries into The Jalloh Charitable Trust and The Deacons Charitable Trust, over concerns about potential conflicts of interest and a number of accounting issues

A Charity Commission class inquiry into the Royal Air Force (RAF) mess charities has found there were serious governance and management failures, which allowed a contractor to siphon off around £200,000 in charity funds over a four-year period at RAF Honington in Suffolk

Wealthy donors gave the largest share to charity as they gain the most from tax relief with the latest HMRC figures showing that charity tax relief jumped to £3.8bn

Busoga Association (UK)’s chief executive acted without trustee oversight, with funds unaccounted for and external consultants hired without trustees' knowledge, finds Charity Commission

Helena Wilkinson, partner and head of charities at Price Bailey, takes a critical look at plans for a radical overhaul of charity accounting from stronger governance and an overhaul of membership of the SORP committee to bespoke accounting rules for smaller charities, following the Morgan governance review

The Charity Commission has published a highly critical report on Oxfam GB, stating that aspects of the charity’s past record on safeguarding amount to mismanagement through governance failures, and saying there was a culture of ‘tolerating poor behaviour’

The boss of a leading alcohol and drug addiction charity has been given a seven-year director disqualification for causing it to collapse by entering into financial contracts that set unachievable targets

The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into Devon Charitable Trust, a Harrow-based charity, over concerns about the transfer of thousands of pounds of funds to a trustee’s bank account and the handling of donations

Charity reporting and accounting needs to be overhauled to provide more transparency and accountability on financials and to simplify the reporting process for the smallest charities, says Charity SORP review panel, chaired by professor Gareth Morgan

The Charity Commission has published a highly critical report on Viva Palestina, the aid charity founded by former MP George Galloway, saying it may not have conducted any charitable activity or distributed any humanitarian aid, and finding its former trustees were responsible for mismanagement

The Charity Commission has removed a charity and its trustees from its register, after an investigation uncovered ‘serious abuse’ of its funds, including spending on gym memberships and TV subscriptions, and no evidence of any charitable activity