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           <title>Graeme Duncan: Philanthropy must fund communities to lead lasting change</title>
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           <title>RNLI workers to ballot over strike action at closing lifeboat manufacturing centre</title>
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           <title>Financial pressures are small charities’ ‘most pressing challenge’, survey finds. </title>
           <description>‘Leadership wellbeing’ and succession planning are also highlighted as major concerns. </description>
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           <title>Slow not-for-profit sector wage growth cost the average charity worker £3,500 last year</title>
           <description>The average charity worker would have earned thousands more during 2025 if their earnings had kept pace with wage growth in the private sector, research has found</description>
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           <title>Evaluation backs 800-year-old charity’s ‘deputised funding model’</title>
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           <title>Children’s hospice charities facing a total shortfall of £34.3m this year</title>
           <description>More than four in five children’s hospice charities are forecasting an operating deficit in the current financial year, research is warning.</description>
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           <title>Suneet Sharma: Ethical governance in practice</title>
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           <title>‘Falling income and rising costs’ forces support charity to close </title>
           <description>The charity has been supporting communities for the last 40 years but says financial challenges have left it ‘without a viable path forward’.</description>
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           <title>Allergy charities to merge</title>
           <description>Two national charities that support people with allergies are to merge.</description>
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           <title>Monday movers - 15 June 2026</title>
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           <title>King’s Birthday Honours list pays tribute to charity leaders and fundraisers </title>
           <description>Mind’s CEO Sarah Hughes and motor neurone disease charities fundraiser Kevin Sinfield are among those honoured. </description>
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           <title>Charity brands with 'momentum' among the public revealed </title>
           <description>Mental health charities are performing particularly well in terms of brand growth and future trajectory, research has found.</description>
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           <title>Regulators issue transparency plea to the public when fundraising</title>
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           <title>Two in three Brits feel ‘overwhelmed by the number of charity appeals’, survey finds</title>
           <description>The survey also found that one in three have cut or stopped giving to good causes due to financial pressures. </description>
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           <title>Charities retreating into ‘protection mode’ amid online hostility, warns NCVO</title>
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           <title>Melissa Moody: Why charity media teams need to understand sector press better</title>
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           <title>Code breaches found following investigation into ‘extremely aggressive’ fundraiser</title>
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           <title>Regulator considering MP’s claim 32 charities ‘funnelled' £28m to illegal Israeli settlements</title>
           <description>Labour MP Melanie Ward wants investigations launched into the charities, amid further concerns raised by the government about the financing of &quot;settler violence&quot;.</description>
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           <title>Nine in ten charities using AI but few exploring its ‘true potential’, warns research</title>
           <description>Despite the technology “now mainstream” in the sector, its use is “limited by a lack of resources and technical capability”, the research has found.</description>
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           <title>Evaluation reveals benefits of adding a virtual candle to online fundraising</title>
           <description>Offering donors the chance to light a virtual candle to a friend of family member can boost in memory funds and encourage repeat giving, evaluation has found.</description>
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           <title>Former Scope CEO to chair business group set up to tackle disability exclusion</title>
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           <title>Case study: How charities can best protect their storytellers</title>
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           <title>Working Families closes following ‘a sustained period of financial challenge’ </title>
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           <title>Senior MP’s comparison of charity retail with vape shops criticised as 'outdated'</title>
           <description>The Charity Retail Association says comments made by shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith are “a very old fashioned and outdated view of charity shops”.</description>
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           <title>Monday movers - 8 June</title>
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           <title>Jobs at risk as RSPB looks to cut operating costs by 7%</title>
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