Provisions in the new UK Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 will soon allow charities to send electronic communications to a person without...

Understanding the Charity Commission's recent guidance on accepting donations.

The new Charities Act 2022 implements the majority of recommendations in the Law Commission’s rather dryly entitled 2017 report,...

A new study has highlighted the often prohibitive cost for charities, especially smaller ones, of applying to grant makers for funding....

The nights are drawing in. The squirrels are gathering acorns for the winter and birds are feathering their nests in preparation for the...

It may have started with WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden, but the fallout from the world of international espionage is now about to have a...

Perhaps you’ve learned to play the guitar, speak Spanish or bake the perfect Victoria Sponge? Chances are you’ve had to deal with more...

The record sanction imposed by the Information Commissioner on British Airways is remarkable not only because of the eyewatering size of...

The National Council for Voluntary Organisations has just launched a consultation on a new Code of Ethics for charities. The working...

Charity deemed at fault for not taking adequate steps to protect data from criminal hackers. When more than a dozen major charities...

Like everyone else’s, my inbox has been full of GDPR emails pleading with me to opt-in, telling me I don’t need to do anything … and...

The high drama of recent events engulfing Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and the billions wiped off share values may seem a world away...

Ensuring compliance with the new General Data Protection Regulation by 25 May 2018 is the hot topic of the moment, but there are many...

Governing documents for charities are like opinions, everyone has one. But you’d be surprised at how many charity trustees and senior...

The long awaited and dreaded (although it needn’t be) arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation is now just a little over five...

A week after publishing a list to 'name and shame' non-payers of the Fundraising Regulator's annual levy, the body established in 2016 to...

A new Charity Governance Code published on 14 July 2017, has stressed the standards expected of charities and trustees and recommended...

The Fundraising Preference Service (FPS), a new service designed to help donors opt out of fundraising communications, goes live today....

The Charity Commission is viewed by many in the charity sector the way tax payers view Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs; a necessary...

The new Fundraising Preference Service (FPS) will be launched sometime in the summer of 2017, and it’s something of which all charities...