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Police arrest a protester in London as the Judicial Review challenging the proscription of Palestine Action gets underway in November. Photo: Joao Daniel Pereira/Sipa USA

Report: Disability Charity Reinstates Worker It Sacked for Palestine Solidarity

Simon Childs

A worker for Sense got sacked being arrested for showing support for Palestine Action. After a Novara Media report and union solidarity, she got her job back.

A protest against the proscription of Palestine Action in Manchester on Saturday 29 November 2025. Credit: Harriet Williamson

Report: Disability Charity Sacks Employee for Palestine Protest, Citing ‘Brand Reputation’

Simon Childs

Exclusive: Sense sacked an employee after she was arrested at a peaceful protest against Palestine Action’s proscription. In a letter, the charity told her it needed to think of its ‘brand reputation’. Simon Childs reports.

Chocolate rice cakes with chocolate sweets on top

Report: A Government Department Cancelled a Charity Bake Sale for Palestine

Rivkah Brown

Ed Miliband’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero cancelled a planned fundraiser after officials accused the charity, Medical Aid for Palestinians, of political lobbying. Rivkah Brown reports.

a group of people wearing all black climb a hill in a desert environment

Report: Revealed: A British Charity Gave Over £1m to ‘Israel’s Largest Militia’

Rivkah Brown

Between 2011 and 2018 The Jewish National Fund UK gave £1.1m to HaShomer HaChadash, a ‘neo-nationalist’ organisation that uses military tactics to expand illegal settlements and defend Israeli land from Palestinians. Rivkah Brown reports.

St Mungo’s workers on strike. @SMUnite on Twitter

Report: Housing Charity Accused of Trying to ‘Get Around Law’ to Break Strike

Polly Smythe

Employers are no longer allowed to use agency workers to undermine strikes, so St Mungo’s have simply given strike-breaking agency workers short-term contracts.

Emma Haddad. Screengrab: St Mungo's

Report: Charity Boss Apologises After ‘Enraged Rant’ at Union Reps

Polly Smythe

St Mungo’s CEO Emma Haddad had a ‘meltdown’ and told union reps that talk of stronger financial governance was ‘absolute crap’.

St Mungo's workers on a picket line. @SMUnite on Twitter

Report: Striking Workers Say Homeless Charity Has Lost Its Way

Polly Smythe

Workers at St Mungo’s have announced an indefinite strike over pay, and have spoken out against burn-out, spiraling executive pay, and dodgy deals with the home office. Polly Smythe reports.

Long Read: Effective Altruism Is Infiltrating UK Politics and It’s Time We Woke Up

Matteo Tiratelli

Founded in Oxford in the early 2010s, the movement has since earned a fanbase of American billionaires who are now pumping money into British politics, Labour in particular, writes Matteo Tiratelli.

Opinion: Philanthropy Isn’t Just Problematic – It’s Harmful

Nathalie Olah

Philanthropy has existed for centuries to provide positive PR to some of the greediest and most disreputable people on earth. In preserving the logic of capitalism, and protecting the public image of those who have profited from its exploitative mechanisms, it isn't just problematic, it can be actively harmful, writes Nathalie Olah.

Opinion: Third-Sector Workers’ Grievances Point to the Shortcomings of the Charity Sector

Benjamin Morgan

St Mungo’s homelessness workers have voted to strike over employment conditions, while raising the charity’s history of working with the Home Office. Benjamin Morgan argues more third-sector workers need to make the link between their own struggles at work and charities' failures to stand up for the rights of vulnerable people.

G4S is Using Art by Detainees and Prisoners to Boost Its Public Image

Joe Lo

A private security firm that runs some of the worst immigration removal centres and prisons in the country has partnered with an arts charity to put on an exhibition of work by inmates and detainees.

4 Things That Are Right With Effective Altruism

Matteo Tiratelli

In a previous Novara article, 'Effective Altruism' was slammed for pointing to symptoms instead of structures. This response piece argues it may not be worth jettisoning a project like EA yet.

5 Problems with Effective Altruism

Connor Woodman

The growing Effective Altruism movement seeks to help people give to charity in a smarter way. But is philanthropy really the most effective way to challenge global injustice?

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