Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to provide support for charities who are facing 'imminent collapse' due to the coronavirus crisis. Relaxing the rules surrounding charities' ability to claim their employees wages back - while they are not working due to coronavirus - is one option. St John Ambulance could go bust in August, its chief executive admitted (stock image)St John Ambulance Chief Executive Martin Houghton-Brown said the country's leading first aid charity has funds to last until the summer. Oxfam has been forced to shut around 600 UK charity shops, which raised £17.3 million last year, ITV News reports. Sophie Andrews OBE, chief executive officer of Noah's Ark, said: 'We're concerned about how we're going to support these children through coronavirus and beyond.

Source: Daily Mail March 31, 2020 17:45 UTC