Oxfam took over Clapham High Street in the UK's biggest
charity music festival, raising over £5,000 on Saturday. The festival saw
thousands of volunteers and hundreds of thousands of fans making music in a bid
to fight poverty in their communities.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://swlondoner.co.uk/content/16101291-uks-biggest-charity-music-festival-hits-clapham-high-street
New research predicts the number of older women in the UK
who will be living with breast cancer in 2040 will be four times the number
today.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/251512.php
RSPB creates marketing and fundraising director role
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/news/rspb-creates-marketing-and-fundraising-director-role/4004296.article
The Heart charity, The British Heart Foundation (the BHF),
announced as the De Vere Venues Charity of the Year partnership.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.incentivetravel.co.uk/news/venuesevents/9965-de-vere-venues-hosts-official-colmore-gate-launch-party
The 10-year partnership between the children's cancer
charity Clic Sargent and the pub chain JD Wetherspoon has raised £6m since 2002
through a combination of employee and customer support - of this, £1m has come
in the past nine months.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/1154579/business-partner-jd-wetherspoon-clic-sargent/
The Charities Aid Foundation and Legal & General launch
their new social investment scheme.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/voluntary-sector-network-caf-partner-zone/magnifying-impact-social-investment?newsfeed=true
Deloitte UK charitable partnership process
Deloitte UK is supporting Children with Cancer UK, Help for
Heroes and Cancer Research UK until 31 May 2013.
The firm’s Charity of the Year process is purely staff led
and we ask for our people to nominate their chosen charities for consideration.
We do not invite charities to tender/present/bid for the status and do not
allow canvassing to our people.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedKingdom/Local%20Assets/Documents/About%20Deloitte/Community%20Investment%20-%20case%20studies/uk-deloitte-charitable-partnership-process.pdf
The low-cost airline Ryanair has announced TVN Foundation as
its charity partner for the 2013 Ryanair Cabin Crew Charity Calendar. The
airline hopes to raise up to €100,000 for the charity.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2218506/Ryanair-cabin-crew-strip-racy-calendar--despite-years-effort-slammed-ASA.html
Barnardo's has clinched a Christmas corporate partnership
deal with high street retailer Argos, which aims to encourage people to donate
their unwanted toys for Barnardo's to sell in its charity shops.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.barnardos.org.uk/shop/shops/argos_toy_exchange.htm
Bolton Wanderers FC choose Arrhythmia Alliance as its
National Charity Partner for the 2012/13 season.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.stratfordobserver.co.uk/2012/10/19/news-Fabrice-Muamba-teams-up-with-Shipston-heart-charity--53033.html
Build Africa has won the Charity Times Award for
'International Charity of the Year'.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.build-africa.org/news.php/136/build-africa-win-international-charity-of-the-year-award
Saunton Golf Club Charity of the Year 2013. Calvert Trust
Exmoor are delighted to have been chosen by Saunton Golf Club as a Charity of
The Year.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.calvert-trust.org.uk/about-us/latest-news/post/147-saunton-golf-club-charity-of-the-year-2013
Elephant Family are thrilled to have been voted one of
Deutsche Bank's Charities of the Year for 2013.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.elephantfamily.org/
North West Cancer Research Fund (NWCRF) has been nominated
as Liverpool's Threshold Festival's official charity partner.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.artinliverpool.com/?p=33364
The Helen MacArthur Cancer Trust has been made the official
charity of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race 2013.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZaiX6G8u1o
Bingley-firm Damart helps to put breast cancer charity in
the pink
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/airelocal/9990769.Bingley_firm_Damart_helps_to_put_breast_cancer_charity_in_the_pink/
Whatsonstage.com Awards choose InterAct as charity for 2013.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.whatsonstage.com/news/theatre/london/E8831350315716/Whatsonstage.com+Awards+adopts+Stagecoach%27s+InterAct+as+2013+charity.html
Folkestone Autumn Beer Festival raises money for Prostate
Cancer UK charity.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Folkestone-Autumn-Beer-Festival-raises-money/story-17108979-detail/story.html
Mayor Charity of the Year
Melton Mayor's Appeal boosts Melton children's charity
A total of £6,971.94 was raised during Councillor Alison
Freer-Jones' 2011-12 year of office. The Mayor was supported by the Friends of
Romy fundraising group which accepted the cheque on behalf of the charity.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.meltontimes.co.uk/news/local/mayor-s-appeal-boosts-melton-children-s-charity-1-4373928
DEVIZES Mayor and Mayoress Kelvin and Pam Nash have thanked
the organisers of three events which together have contributed more than £1000.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/towns/devizesheadlines/9976750.Devizes_mayor_thanks_fundraisers_for_supporting_his_charities/
Mayor of Richmond Rita Palmer, has chosen the Horse Rangers
and the Poppy Factory as her favoured charities for the year.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.elmbridgetoday.co.uk/Community/Horse_Rangers_attend_charity_polo_event_0000003536.aspx
Town Mayor's Charities to Benefit from Quiz Night. The Town
Mayor's charities this year are Wessex Cancer Trust and The League of Friends
at Alton.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.easthampshire.org/2012/10/town-mayor%E2%80%99s-charities-benefit-from-quiz-night/
TWO young farmers from Carmarthenshire have helped the Wales
Young Farmers Club raise almost £38,000 for the organisation's Charity of the
Year - Wales Air Ambulance.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Young-farmers-saddle-raise-pound-38k-air/story-17094847-detail/story.html
Lottery Funding
St Nicholas Hospice Care awarded £431212 from Big Lottery
Fund.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/bury_st_edmunds_st_nicholas_hospice_care_awarded_431_212_from_big_lottery_fund_1_1656494
Chicks has secured a £3,300 award from The Big Lottery Fund
to help finance a whole new range of equipment for its members who are aged up
to five years old. As well as toys and learning aids.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/9976774.Lottery_grant_finances_new_play_equipment_for_Chilton_toddlers/
Down's Syndrome Association is one of five Northern Ireland
organisations awarded grants totalling almost £1.3 million from the Big Lottery
Fund's Reaching Out: Connecting Older People programme, which supports older
people affected by issues such as bereavement, disability or long-term illness
or who live in residential care or sheltered housing.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.downs-syndrome.org.uk/news-and-media/dsa-news/1262-big-lotter-fund-award-given-to-northern-ireland.html
A PROJECT to encourage volunteering in Coventry has received
a £288,000 cash boost from the Big Lottery Fund. The Retired and Senior
Volunteer Programme, based at Central Hall, in Warwick Lane, city centre, was
granted the funding for three years.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/2012/10/17/lottery-funding-award-for-coventry-volunteering-project-92746-32044781/
Lottery boost for health and social projects. Ten schemes in
East Anglia will share £2.3 million of funding from the Big Lottery Fund (Big).
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2012-10-17/lottery-boost-for-health-and-social-projects/
A project which teaches financial literacy to young people
is one of eight projects in the West Midlands to win a share of £1.5 million
from the Big Lottery Fund (Big). Best Chance will use £155,000 to help young
people in Birmingham avoid debt.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2012/10/17/birmingham-finance-scheme-best-chance-wins-lottery-funding-65233-32044310/
A DERBYSHIRE charity which aims to help people with eating
disorders has been given a big financial boost. First Steps Derbyshire has been
awarded £187,105 from the Big Lottery Fund.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/Cash-boost-eating-disordersorganisation/story-17094749-detail/story.html
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