Nature charities have sounded a wake-up call for the Government to meet its targets to restore nature. The National Trust, RSPB and Wildlife and Countryside Link warned 18 out of 23 targets are currently not on track with “good progress”. Action on 11 of the targets was assessed to have […]
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Giving out money Giving out cash to strangers could be an early warning sign of Alzheimer’s. That is according to research by USC and Bar-Ilan University in Israel, which linked financial altruism to the first stages of the disease. The study tested the theory on 67 adults around the age […]
A blueprint setting out how Britain could provide refuge to thousands of Palestinians from Gaza has been drawn up by a coalition of charities and groups. Organisations including the Refugee Council, Safe Passage International, Doctors of the World, Helen Bamber Foundation and City of Sanctuary have raised concerns about the […]
Video recorded by the Channel 12 News CCTV shows rockets landing on a Gaza hospital Aid charities are demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Hamas-Israel war, pleading: “For the sake of innocents, stop the shelling.” As grieving families held funerals for children killed by the strikes on Gaza, rescue workers […]
One in three fraud victims ‘may miss out on refunds’, charities and consumer groups warn By Rachel Rickard Straus Updated: 12:38 BST, 11 October 2023 Protections for scam victims risk being watered down and delayed, charities and consumer groups will warn today. A new redress system for victims tricked into transferring […]
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said she was ‘astonished’ to learn of a German government initiative to finance migrant rescue charity groups operating in the Mediterranean in a letter to Chancellor Olaf Scholz. A surge in migrant boat landings on the Italian island of Lampedusa earlier this month sparked a […]
Charities should not hold back from engaging in political activity and on emotive issues on social media such as race or immigration, even where they risk triggering controversy, the voluntary sector watchdog has said. Guidance to be issued by the Charity Commission this week makes it clear charities are entitled […]
Prostate cancer referrals have reached a record high in the last year thanks to the ‘Bill Turnbull’ effect, a charity has revealed. New data shows the number of referrals – when a person is sent for extra tests or to a hospital doctor – has risen 17 per cent in […]