MILITARY CHARITIES PROBE Military charities are under investigation after it emerged that some of their fund-raisers lie to the donating public about how much actually goes …
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The NSPCC has set up a dedicated helpline for sexual abuse victims in football since a number of footballers have revealed on national television that they had been abused …
RSPCA MAKE MISTAKES An internal investigation into the RSPCA’s putting down of a 16-year old cat in 2013 and attempt to prosecute its owners for cruelty has seen the …
TIME FOR GREED TO BE CURBED Debt charity StepChange has called for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to intervene on overdraft fines charged by the banks …
HEARTENING Patients with damage due to heart attacks are being offered a £10,000 procedure by a charity whereby their own stem cells from their bone marrow are …
DON’T CARE THEN? The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published new guidelines aimed at preventing care homes from punishing residents whose relatives …
BITING THE DATA BULLET The Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) will be the UK’s first major charity to adopt “opt-in” rules on how it communicates with its donors, though …
ROYALTY FOR SALE? The Centrepoint charity for young homeless people, a favourite of Prince William, has been accused of “crude hustling” following allegations that they …
GARY ON THE BALL The fostering charity TACT has apologised for falsely claiming that a man in his late thirties arriving in Calais as a “child refugee” was an interpreter…