The Charity Commission has appointed Adam Stephens, partner at Smith and Williamson, as interim manager to Aid Convoy, which is facing a statutory inquiry into its finances
The Charity Commission is to investigate six charities which share common trustees over serious concerns about potential mismanagement, including financial reporting issues
Three trustees of a Hereford and Worcester-based charity have resigned after a regulatory inquiry uncovered a string of failures in its governance, finances and safeguarding
The staff at football charity Kick It Out (KIO) have been let down by their management and trustees over a failure to deal with sexual harassment, bullying and safeguarding
International UK charities are facing economic and political uncertainty, with government policy, Brexit and future funding all areas for concern, while increased public scrutiny is putting the sector under pressure to improve its accountability
Continued failure in reporting obligations have prompted the regulator to start an inquiry into Bournemouth based charity which runs a community centre set up to promote spiritual, mental, physical and social development
Specialists in charity accounting are being sought to join the Charity SORP committee following an overhaul of the current membership and plans to modernise charity financial reporting
The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into Human Care Hands Foundation UK, due to serious concerns over the financial management and governance at the London-based charity
The Charity Commission is warning that while 69% of charities see fraud as a major risk, just 9% have training programmes highlighting the issues, at the start of a week of activities designed to heighten awareness of the ways to reduce fraud risks
The Charity Commission has opened a new statutory inquiry into CWM Harry Land Trust Ltd, an environmental charity whose objects also include the education and rehabilitation of prisoners and ex-offenders, amid concerns about reporting failures
A Charity Commission inquiry has found that trustees of Aid and Peace Trust were responsible for misconduct and mismanagement, after they failed to show how charitable funds were used and acted outside the charity’s stated objects, and the charity has been removed from the register
A supported housing charity operating in Bristol has been sanctioned by the regulator over long-running financial management failings and unauthorised payments to trustees
The Charity Commission has announced a second statutory inquiry into Human Aid UK over concerns about mismanagement and/or misconduct at the charity, which was investigated before over its fundraising practices
