NCVO successful at removing Gender Pay Gap

09/27/23 • 10 min

Charity News Daily: Causes, Fundraising & Volunteering

Catherine Goodall, Policy and Influencing Manager at NCVO talks about the organisation’s work to address the gender pay gap – and explores what you can do to support change across the sector.
https://www.ncvo.org.uk/news-and-insights/news-index/narrowing-the-gender-pay-gap/#/

In response to the UK Government’s decision to approve the development of the Rosebank oil field, Oxfam has put out a statement.

https://www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-releases/reaction-oxfam-response-to-the-uk-governments-decision-to-approve-the-development-of-the-rosebank-oil-field/

Greenpeace UK have also put out a similar statement against the decision to approve the new oil and gas field.
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/rosebank-oil-and-gas-field-approved-handouts-to-corporations-at-the-expense-of-the-rest-of-us-greenpeace-comment/

Woodgreen comments on the proposed ban of XL Bully types.
https://woodgreen.org.uk/news-events/woodgreen-response-to-proposed-ban-of-xl-bully-types/

RNIB has been trialing four different accessible voting solutions with blind and partially sighted voters, at an event supported by the Government and the Electoral Commission.
https://www.rnib.org.uk/news/rnib-tests-four-solutions-to-bring-accessible-voting-one-step-closer/

The Liberal Democrats have welcomed Help for Heroes to their annual party conference in Bournemouth to discuss how it will prioritise veterans at the next general election.
https://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/about-us/news/lib-dems-adopt-key-veterans-policies-at-annual-conference/

Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) has published an evaluation of SSAFA’s Stepping Stone Home, which it calls “... a unique and invaluable service”.
https://www.ssafa.org.uk/news-articles/new-report-on-ssafa-s-stepping-stone-home-released

Mind has published a blog by Helen Cook called Winning at Work describing how she helped her workplace - the Awen Cultural Trust - to achieve a Gold Award for workplace wellbeing.
https://www.mind.org.uk/news-campaigns/news/winning-at-work-how-i-helped-my-workplace-to-strike-gold-for-staff-wellbeing/

In response to the UK Government’s decision to approve the development of the Rosebank oil field, Oxfam has put out a statement.

https://www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-releases/reaction-oxfam-response-to-the-uk-governments-decision-to-approve-the-development-of-the-rosebank-oil-field/

Woodgreen comments on the proposed ban of XL Bully types.
https://woodgreen.org.uk/news-events/woodgreen-response-to-proposed-ban-of-xl-bully-types/

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Cyclist Braves Rattlesnake to raise money for Stroke Association

Wicklow RNLI's volunteers launched in the early hours of Sunday 24 September to assist a sailor, after their yacht had mechanical and electrical issues off Wicklow Harbour. https://rnli.org/news-and-media/2023/september/25/wicklow-rnli-comes-to-aid-of-lone-sailor-in-the-early-hours-of-the-morning

Charity Commission to review its handling of actors’ fund feud.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/25/charity-commission-to-review-its-handling-of-actors-fund-feud

Lanarkshire man completes Mighty Stride to raise money for The Haven Centre.
https://www.thehavencentre.com/post/edinburghkiltwalk

Football legend David Seaman MBE and over 200 supporters of the British Heart Foundation came together to shine a spotlight on hidden heart conditions and their impact on the nation every day.
https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/news-from-the-bhf/news-archive/2023/september/david-seaman-shines-a-spotlight-on-daily-heart-disease-deaths

The closure of a leading gender equality charity was described as "terrible news" for women across Wales. Chwarae Teg which is Welsh for ‘Fair Play’ said that a perfect storm of funding challenges, including the impending loss of financial support from the European Union was behind the move.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66861846

https://chwaraeteg.com/news/chwarae-teg-closure-statement/

A Bristol man braved desert heat, hypothermia and an attack by an angry rattlesnake on a coast-to-coast cycle ride across the USA. Simon Galpin, 55, from Bristol, raised almost £3,500 for the Stroke Association, a charity which helps people rebuild their lives after stroke.

https://www.stroke.org.uk/about-us/media-newsroom#/pressreleases/bristol-cyclist-braved-rattlesnakes-for-the-stroke-association-3273784

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73-year-old to row across Atlantic Ocean for Alzheimer's Research UK

Independent private schools would retain some of their tax breaks under a Labour government, after the party backed down on its pledge to strip them of charitable status.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/27/labour-backs-down-from-plan-to-strip-private-schools-of-charitable-status

This December, Oldham Athletic owner, and adventurer, Frank Rothwell, who is 73 - yes 73 - years old, will row 3,000-miles across the Atlantic, with the aim of raising 1 million pounds for Alzheimer’s Research UK.

Donate to Frank’s fundraising for Alzheimer’s Research UK here: Frank Rothwell’s World’s Toughest Row Atlantic Challenge 2023 – JustGiving

https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/chair-of-oldham-athletic-travels-to-essex-to-train-for-3000-mile-charity-row-across-the-atlantic/

For National Inclusion Week, the NCVO Rainbow Network shares their thoughts on how to provide opportunities for making organisations more inclusive for the LGBTQIA+ community within your organisation.

https://www.ncvo.org.uk/news-and-insights/news-index/5-ways-embody-spirit-of-pride-year-round/#/

Patients and colleagues have been queuing up to congratulate a caring father who has supported people with sight loss in Luton and Bedfordshire for 20 years.
https://www.rnib.org.uk/news/praise-for-mark/

Hearing loss affects 1 in 5 UK adults, and yet there are currently no treatments that can restore hearing or prevent it from getting worse. One person who is seeking to change this is Professor Karen Steel, who discussed the biological causes of hearing loss at the 2023 Hearing Therapeutics Summit.
https://rnid.org.uk/2023/09/research-into-our-genes-is-bringing-us-closer-to-hearing-loss-treatments/

John Attrill, a full-time mechanic at Bembridge RNLI has added another string to his bow having just been passed out as a D class helm on Bembridge RNLI ’s Inshore Lifeboat.
https://rnli.org/news-and-media/2023/september/28/family-traditions-continue-at-bembridge-rnli

World-leading study, State of Nature, finds no let-up in the decline of our wildlife, with one in six species at risk of being lost from Great Britain.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/about-the-rspb/about-us/media-centre/press-releases/landmark-report-shows-uk-wildlifes-devastating-decline/

SSAFA have expressed their gratitude to the Army Central Fund (ACF) for its generous donation of £40,000 towards providing Short Breaks for service families who have a child with additional needs or a disability.
https://www.ssafa.org.uk/news-articles/acf-supports-children-living-with-a-disability

School in a Bag is aiming to send 200 bags in October and 800 in February.The bags will be taken to schools and orphanages in Taroudant in Morocco after the worst earthquake in the country for 60 years struck on 8 September.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-66914260