Joe Lepper

Sharron Gunn, the chief operating officer of accountancy organisation the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has been appointed to chair the board of social mobility charity Access Accountancy.

Education sector leaders have raised concerns that pupils from disadvantaged communities are among the worst affected by a failure this year to consider the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on GCSE grading.

Aid charity Rapid Relief Team has opened its first headquarters a decade after launching to provide emergency assistance to those in need in the UK and abroad.

The former leadership of refugee charity Care4Calais has been criticised by the Charity Commission for a raft of governance and financial failures “over a number of years”.

The National Youth Advocacy Service has appointed a former Goldman Sachs analyst to lead its policy and communications.

Charities are facing a difficult winter amid rising demand and falling income that could leave one in five forced “to disappear”, a survey is warning.

Big Give’s women and girls campaign this year has raised more than £1.2m for charities but is down on last year’s total.

Jenny Willott, who served as a government minister in the coalition government, has been appointed as chief executive of Re-engage, which tackles loneliness among older people.

A lack of housing for care leavers in Devon is forcing “too many” to live in hotels and other unsuitable accommodation, Ofsted has warned.