#voluntary sector

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Coronavirus leaves one in 10 UK charities facing bankruptcy this year

Study reveals sector struggling with £10bn funding shortfall as demand for services rises

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170,000 people sign up as NHS volunteers in 15 hours

NHS nearing target of 250,000 volunteers to help vulnerable during coronavirus crisis

This is awesome

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RNLI donations surge after Tory criticism of its work overseas

The Times carried the details of the RNLI’s overseas spending in an article headlined: “RNLI funding burkinis for Africans while cutting jobs.” Part of MailOnline’s headline read: “How £3.3m of donations to lifeboat charity are spent abroad including aid for Tanzania swimmers and creches in Bangladesh.” The RNLI reacted robustly, arguing that its mission had always been to save lives overseas as well as in UK and Irish waters. People began to donate money to show their support for the charity’s work in Africa and Asia. One donor said he had struggled to donate because the RNLI site had crashed under the traffic load

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The hospice nurse spending Christmas with patients: 'They hold on for that special day'

This year, Beth Spooner will give up celebrating with her family to support those with life-limiting illnesses

Cooking the Christmas dinner with my sister, that’s the thing I’m going to miss most. She’ll have to do it on her own this year.” On Christmas morning, Beth Spooner will be at work. Instead of walking her dogs or opening presents with her family, she’ll be spending the day with those for whom this Christmas may be their last.Spooner is a senior hospice-at-home nurse at Rennie Grove hospice care, a charity providing care and support for adults and children with life-limiting illnesses. This Christmas, she’ll be working from early morning to 4pm, visiting the homes of patients nearing the end of their lives. The charity, which supports patients and families in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, offers 24-hour care, seven days a week, including Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.If someone dies at Christmas, that sticks in people's minds forever. Spooner is one of a team of nurses who will be visiting terminally ill patients on Christmas Day, to help them manage their condition, provide pain relief and support their families. Christmas is a particularly difficult time of year to lose a loved one. “If someone dies in or around Christmastime, that sticks in people’s minds forever,” she says. “We do get sad and we will shed a tear with our families, if it’s appropriate.” But she says her work is about being with families and supporting them in the best way possible.

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A third of Londoners aged 16-55 struggle to afford basic necessities

Caroline Gandy-Brown of the Abbey Centre says there’s a stigma around hygiene poverty. Photo: Simon Jacobs/PinPep. The sorry state of London’s hygiene poverty crisis has been laid bare, with almost a third of residents aged 16 to 55 struggling to live their life normally because they can’t afford basic necessities such as soap, tampons, nappies or toothpaste. According to data, around three out…

A third of Londoners aged 16-55 struggle to afford basic necessities

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A long time coming, the dragon wakens, and I contemplate cigarettes.

There has been a gap of a few weeks since I last blogged. Which is interesting as my site has been getting more traffic that at any time since 2018, principally because my writing appears to have been adopted in China. Who knows, perhaps I will be the one to bring together the East and West. I have not written as life has been very full recently. Mostly from a work perspective which you could…

A long time coming, the dragon wakens, and I contemplate cigarettes.

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RNLI takes down its website after suspected hacking attempt

Charity’s site reduced to a landing page after ‘suspicious activity’ and staff sent threatening emails

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Refugee aid in northern France at risk as Choose Love ends funding

Celebrity-backed funder pulls support from seven frontline charities helping migrants as winter approaches