A consultation into the future of the National Lottery has been launched. MPs from the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee are looking to modernise the competition which has been run by Camelot since 1994. The current licence is due to expire in 2023. Damian Collins, Cons…

For his analysis, Kane surveyed UK Government figures on gender pay, which all organisations with 250 or more employees have to submit each year. He then narrowed the field down to 571 organisations with charitable status, before focusing on just “general” charities, as defined b…

He said: “We teach pupils who, thankfully, have their basic needs met most of the time. We were inspired by a fellow teacher who volunteered at a Mary’s Meals school in Malawi four years ago. He was astonished that 100 children who may not otherwise have been at school, were sitt…

Good Ideas Glasgow will be based at Glasgow Caledonian University, and is part of the Erasmus-funded, three-year Social Innovation Knowledge Exchange programme. Good Ideas in both Glasgow and Edinburgh also receives funding from the Scottish Government. Zakia Moulaoui developed I…

The Dear Green x Social Bite Blend is an exclusive blend of Brazilian, Colombian and Rwandan coffee which not only tastes good, it also does good. A percentage of the proceeds from the sale of every coffee will go directly towards Social Bite’s Pay it Forward scheme which enables…

Think Circus works with children who live in areas listed in the bottom 10% of the Index of Multiple Deprivation and aims to build circus groups to improve young people’s mental and physical health. Borrowdale said she was inspired by her own experience of circus in her teenage y…

Anna Fowlie, chief executive of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), welcomed the report's reccomendations. She said: “SCVO welcomes the Commission’s attempt to undertake a fundamental review of charity tax – the current system has become increasingly bureaucr…

She added: “The time for action is now and we’d like to see the £50m limit introduced as a priority. We know there is strong support for this change from charities. “It is right that the government is highlighting the need for increased transparency and we will continue our work…

The 2018 total grew to £58m as donations and fundraising income continued to pour in following BBC Children in Need’s 2018 Appeal show which culminated with an on-the-night total of £50.6m. BBC Children in Need is currently supporting over 3,000 projects across the UK that are he…