Monday 17 December 2012

Charity Links 17/12/12


Morrisons Plc has announced that it has extended its charity partnership with Save the Children until the end of the financial year 2013/2014.





KIDS Charity of the Year announce that their partnership with Cathedral Group is on target.





Meadowhall Shopping Centre has announced that it will be supporting The Children’s Hospital Charity, as its chosen charity of the year for 2013. The Children's Hospital Charity supports the work of The Children's Hospital in Sheffield by funding specialist medical equipment and vital research etc to help change lives by opening new facilities etc.




BNP Paribas is pleased to announce that the NSPCC has been chosen as its 2013 UK Charity of the Year.





Following a busy year of community engagement and fundraising, KPMG on the Isle of Man has announced a donation of £7674.01 to its chosen charity of the year 2011/12.





First Call Contract Services are proud to announce their 2013 charity partnership with the TEENAGE CANCER TRUST.





EasyJet's cabin crew are getting in a festive mood by donning Santa Claus outfits to launch a new charity donation drive for Unicef.


For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/13/easyjets-200-santas-unicef_n_2291704.html



The Harrogate-based mutual, Engage Mutual launches a new charity policy. Engage Mutual has launched a charity policy which recognises staff for their participation in voluntary and fundraising initiatives.


For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.harrogate-news.co.uk/2012/12/13/engage-mutual-launches-new-charity-policy/



The estate agency Strutt and Parker charity group, have decided to donate £5,000 of their fundraising, which has been given to help Parkinson's UK continue its work.




Angel Springs raises thousands of pounds for UK charity. A new customer loyalty scheme launched by Wolverhampton (UK) headquartered Angel Springs has seen the water cooler service provider raise more than £10,000 for children's charity Make-A-Wish Foundation UK in just 3 months.


For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.foodbev.com/news/angel-springs-raises-thousands-of-pounds#.UM2pdqzeBnk





Airedale Shopping Centre is giving Keighley people a chance to vote for the local charity they believe the centre should support during 2013.


For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/10081742.Centre_seeks_new_charity_for_2013/



STAFF at a Haverfordwest store are searching for a local good cause to become their charity partner in 2013. 



Sywell Airshow raised a massive £50,000 for charity in a bumper year. Organisers of this year's Sywell Airshow have announced that more than £50,000 was raised for good causes.





Beyond Analysis's Charity of the Year with The Rett Syndrome Research Trust UK, has raised significant funds.





Action on Hearing Loss and Deafness Research UK has announced recently that they are holding talks about the possibility of a merger.





A broader November survey by the Office for National Statistics cast a grim light on the overall decline in charitable giving in the UK. The ONS report said donations fell 20%in real terms during 2011-12.


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Newcastle United legend Alan Shearer has won over new hearts as he was announced as the patron of a children's heart charity.





From the New Year, early 2013, starting a new charity will be much simpler. The government has agreed a new one-stop process to help make things easier.


For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.greenwich-cvs.org.uk/2012/12/10/setting-up-a-new-charity-just-got-easier/



Government cuts red tape to make it easier to run a charity. A new type of charity structure means the organisation is liable, rather than individual trustees, if things do actually go wrong.


For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/news/government-cuts-red-tape-make-it-easier-run-charity



Lottery Funding



The Elthorne Estate will be the only Islington area awarded funding under the Big Lottery Fund's Big Local Programme. The money will be paid over 10 years.





The Big Society Network team attended an event last night to celebrate that it has been given a £7 million injection from the Big Lottery Fund (BIG).





Palfrey is one of 50 deprived areas across England to benefit from the Big Lottery Fund's Big Local programme. Hateley Heath, in Sandwell, has also been granted a cash injection.





Families in Catton Grove, to the north of the city centre, have been given a surprise early Christmas present – £1m of National Lottery cash to spend on improving their community.





Newington is set to receive at least £1 million of lottery funding as part of a national 'Big Local' initiative.


For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thanet.gov.uk/news/latest_press_releases/newington_funding.aspx



A CLUSTER of villages in the shadow of the doomed, 500-job Alcan aluminum smelter have been given a £1m funding boost.





Residents in the isolated Cumbrian village of Milburn will soon be broadening their horizons thanks to a £33,000 Big Lottery Fund award.


For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/news-and-events



A grant of £9,996 was awarded from the Big Lottery Fund under the Awards for All scheme. It will fund a new group which provides a safe place in which people aged 13-18 can explore and get support with gender and sexual identity issues for a year.


Thursday 6 December 2012

Charity Links 6/12/12



New Charity Commission chair tells Acevo annual conference he thinks some charities have become dependent on the state.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.acevoannualconference.org.uk/
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=21596

New ways to claim Gift Aid and Small Donations Scheme payments online.HMRC are launching the new service, called Charities Online, in 2013 to replace the current paper form method, in order to simplify and speed up the system.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/charities/online/index.htm

Halfords has over 12,000 colleagues and know that there's a lot that they can do to help those in need and over the last four years have supported Macmillan & cancer Research UK.
Halfords are now in the process of reviewing their approach to charitable support in the future and will update this site with more information as soon as they have confirmed their approach. If you believe that your charity has a relevance to Halfords, please register your interest to their Charity Committee.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.halfordscompany.com/corporate-responsibility/charity-partnerships
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.halfordscompany.com/contact/contact-details/charity-committee

Npower is looking to shift its marketing strategy away from sport sponsorship in favour of partnerships with charities to improve its brand perception.

Celtic Football Club and Celtic Charity are delighted to announce an extremely exciting partnership with Rod Stewart.
Recently, Rod has been working with Celtic Charity to select a Charity Single from his outstanding new Christmas Album, "Merry Christmas, Baby".
The proceeds from the sale of the single will be used to support young people with cancer and inner city community projects across the UK.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.celticfc.net/charity/

Private bank Coutts is supporting SeeAbility by entering its first-ever garden in the Chelsea Flower Show 2013 on behalf of the eye care charity.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.optometry.co.uk/news-and-features/news/?article=4096

Wagamama recently announced its partnership with the leading national youth charity, UK Youth, which will get started with the 'be different, be kind' campaign.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/news/wagamama-in-first-charity-tie-up/4004976.article
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=21596
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.brindleyplace.com/2012/11/wagamama-partners-with-uk-youth/

The Fragrance Shop announces their Rays of Sunshine Charity partnership. The partners aim to raise at least £100,000 in 12 months through a donation of 5p from every purchase of perfume, aftershave, beauty products and accessories.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thefragranceshop.co.uk/spray-a-little-happiness.aspx

A Sheffield charity for the homeless has been chosen by phone and broadband company Plusnet as its Charity of the Year. The company, which employs over 700 people in Sheffield, hopes to raise £10,00 for Roundabout, which provides shelter and support homeless young people.
Roundabout hopes to use the cash to boost its hostel renovation fund.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/cash-boost-for-city-charity-1-5171629

A CIRCUS is urging charities in Cheltenham to apply to become the beneficiary of its fundraising efforts. Circus Starr has many long-standing partnerships with charities across the UK and has raised over £850,000 in the past 10 years for local charities, with a particular emphasis on hospices, hospitals and children's charities.

Help the Hospices is looking for a Charity of the Year. A charity of the year partnership with us is ideal whether you have one or hundreds of sites and offices.

Once again, this year NPC (New Philanthropy Capital) worked closely with the Guardian and Observer on the Christmas 2012 Charity Appeal, helping us choose our list of eight inspirational and high-performing charities that work with disabled people.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/nov/30/npc-partners-christmas-charity-appeal-2012

This year's 2012 'X Factor' winner's single will be a charity single and Syco is donating 100% of its profits from the song to Together for Short Lives charity.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.list.co.uk/article/47158-x-factor-winners-song-to-be-charity-single/

According to Foresters, retirees donate the most to charity, giving 0.49% of their annual income.
Over 65s donate more to charity each year than other generations, and give twice that of under 30-year-olds.

UK-based charitable organisation Concern Universal has won the £150000 prize in the GAME ON business competition.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-charity-takes-150k-greentree-software-prize-040201235.html

Lottery Funding

Fife care leavers benefit from life changing funding from The Big Lottery Fund.

A total of eight communities across Wales are sharing in the £324,218 awarded from the Big Lottery Fund's (BIG) Village SOS scheme.

A village library in Charmouth, Dorset will soon be transformed into a vibrant community hub thanks to a £50,000 Big Lottery Fund award.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/news-and-events

Villagers in South Cambridgeshire are raising a glass and toasting the news that they have been awarded £46,450 from the Big Lottery Fund.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/news-and-events

THE newly refurbished Tiers Cross Community Hall will have brand new chairs, tables and interior fittings thanks to a lottery grant. Awards for All, part of the Big Lottery Fund, has provided £4,650 to purchase the new equipment.
For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.milfordmercury.co.uk/news/10085033.Community_hall_modernised/

Residents in Husthwaite, near Thirsk, are set to realise a long-standing ambition after the Big Lottery Fund (BLF) agreed to fund most of the cost of replacing its well-used, but rotten and damp, community centre.

Newmains Community Trust are delighted to have been awarded the Big Lottery Fund grant to build a new Community Hub, with a library and community cafe.

Epping-based befriending project City on a Hill lands £10000 Big Lottery Fund.

Shopmobility, which loans out scooters and wheelchairs to help less able-bodied shoppers access town centre stores, was awarded the grant from the Big Lottery Fund to meet the increasing demand for its services.

The Big Lottery Fund's Village SOS scheme has awarded business grants of more than £641,000 to 13 communities across Northern Ireland. Around £50,000 has been earmarked for each village to help people create social enterprises.

The Big Lottery Fund has awarded grants to both South Shields Community School and St Wilfrid's RC College. They were among 48 groups in the region who were helped by the Awards For All scheme, which gives handouts of up to £10,000 to projects.

Mayor Charity of the Year

This is a fantastic example of the generosity of Loughboroughs traders coming together to support the Mayors nominated charities that work tirelessly to support the local community. This year, the Mayor has selected two charities to support.

Mayor of Felixstowe Mike Deacon is hoping his two chosen charities for his year in office will receive a great Christmas boost.