Charity Links 26/6/13

Text Santa, ITV's annual charity fundraiser, will return in December 2013 to raise money and awareness for another 6 UK based charities.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/update/2013-06-24/text-santa-is-back-for-its-third-year/

The UK's leading on-water Boat Show, the PSP Southampton Boat Show, is pleased to announce its official 2013 charity partners.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.charterworld.com/news/psp-southampton-boat-show-official-2013-charity-partners

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.britishmarine.co.uk/news__press/press_article.aspx?ArticleId=4048

BT have announced that BT Sport customers can donate money towards a new charity The Supporters Club.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/off-the-pitch/news/bt-launch-sporting-charity_89510.html

Oxfam is the official charity partner of Glastonbury 2013.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/worthy-causes/oxfam/

Pizza Express and the Children's Food Trust.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.pizzaexpress.com/schoolvisits

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.childrensfoodtrust.org.uk/partners/pizzaexpress

Recently Carers’ Week 2013 was marked by the Comet as Crossroads Care Hertfordshire North is their Charity of the Year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thecomet.net/news/time_to_focus_on_carers_1_2246356

Leeds Marketing agency The Black Hole has made Yorkshire Cancer Research charity of the year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/06/19/black-hole-agency-donates-20000-professional-time-cancer-charity

Stagecoach Manchester Staff Answer the Charity Call for St Ann's Hospice.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://manchestergazette.co.uk/stagecoach-manchester-staff-answer-the-charity-call-for-st-anns-hospice/

STAGECOACH Manchester is calling out to Trafford residents to nominate a cause or charity to be the company's official charity of the year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/news/10500948.Stagecoach_looks_for_a_new_charity_of_the_year/

Solopress partners with Woodland Trust to plant more trees.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://whattheythink.com/news/64081-solopress-partners-woodland-trust-plant-more-trees-help-combat-climate-change/

Nuts magazine, the men's lifestyle magazine, has selected men’s suicide prevention charity CALM - Campaign Against Living Miserably - as its charity of the year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.ppa.co.uk/news/industry/2013/06/nuts-supports-male-suicide-prevention-by-selecting-calm-as-its-charity-of-the-year/

A HALESOWEN building society is calling on local residents to help them decide which good cause will get a cash donation. Yorkshire Building Society new scheme Charity Choices will see each branch donate £1,000 to more than 20 local charities.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.halesowennews.co.uk/news/10490032.New_charity_funding_scheme_launching_in_Halesowen/

Catch of the day as Di Matteo backs charity partnership launch.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/business/s/2135602_catch_of_the_day_as_di_matteo_backs_charity_launch

Bath Ales brewer Gerry Condell stages charity event for Bristol's Frenchay After Burns Children’s Club.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.southwestbusiness.co.uk/news/18062013095026-bath-ales-brewer-gerry-condell-stages-charity-event-for-bristols-frenchay-after-burns-children-s-club-/

The South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) chairman has chosen a third charity to fund raise for over his two-year tenure after asking council staff for suggestions on who they would like to support.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.haverhillecho.co.uk/news/latest-news/south-cambridgeshire-district-council-council-chooses-extra-charity-1-5202619

Oxted students raise money for charities.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk/Oxted-students-raise-money-charities/story-19338971-detail/story.html#axzz2Wz4a8CRh

A team of runners took-off on a very early morning run along Stansted Airport's runway today to raise funds for the Essex and Herts Air Ambulance, the airport's charity partner.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2013-06-24/stansted-runners-take-off-on-charity-runway-run/

Sainsbury's Local Charity Partners

Dursley District Guides make most of charitable partnership with Sainsbury's.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.gazetteseries.co.uk/news/10489925.Dursley_District_Guides_make_most_of_charitable_partnership/

Support 4 Sight announced as Thorley Sainsbury's new charity partner.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.hertsandessexobserver.co.uk/News/Bishops-Stortford/Support-4-Sight-announced-as-Thorley-Sainsburys-new-charity-partner-20130617171853.htm

Northfield's Life Line Food Bank named as Sainsbury's supermarket's charity of the year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.bromsgrovestandard.co.uk/2013/06/18/news-Northfield-Food-Bank-named-as-charity-of-the-year-74651.html

REDDITCH: Pitcheroak School is Sainsbury's charity of the year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.redditchadvertiser.co.uk/news/10489153.Pitcheroak_School_is_Sainsbury_s_charity_of_the_year/

Sainsbury's Potters Bar supermarket has chosen to support a charity for disabled children for the second year running.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/10493416.Charity__thrilled__at_supermarket_support_for_second_year/

Sainsbury's in Swansea has named Caer Las its local charity of the year for the next 12 months.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Swansea-homelessness-charity-Caer-Las-named/story-19328946-detail/story.html#axzz2WtGMpVS7

Otley Sainsbury's will stay with charity for older people "Otley Action for Older People".

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.ilkleygazette.co.uk/news/news_local/10498660.Otley_Sainsbury_s_will_stay_with_charity_for_older_people/

Sainsbury's Team Valley has today announced that Gateshead carers will receive a year's worth of fundraising and awareness support.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.aboutmyarea.co.uk/Cheshire/Runcorn/WA7/News/Local-News/251258-Sainsburys-Team-Valley-charity-of-the-year

Nuneaton Wildlife Sanctuary has been announced as Nuneaton Sainsbury's new Local Charity Partner.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.nuneaton-news.co.uk/News/Animal-sanctuary-selected-as-charity-partner-20130621160637.htm

Sainsbury's in Scarborough has revealed that its charity of the year for 2013/14 will be Scarborough and District Mencap.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thescarboroughnews.co.uk/news/local/sainsbury-s-unveil-charity-of-the-year-1-5797227

Sainsbury's in Fitzherbert Road in Farlington, Portsmouth, has started a new partnership with Pompey in the Community.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/superstore-announces-its-charity-of-the-year-1-5218875

The Kernos Centre in Sudbury has been chosen as Sainsbury s local charity partner.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.suffolkfreepress.co.uk/news/latest-news/supermarket-s-backing-is-music-to-charity-s-ears-1-5205652  

Woodhouse Close Church Community Centre, in Bishop Auckland, has been selected by St Helen Auckland Sainsbury's to become its local charity partner for the next 12 months.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10507006.Community_centre_set_for_fundraising_boost/

Sainsbury's Local, Ewell, has chosen to raise awareness of the Shine On Appeal by making it its local charity partner.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/10504758.Supermarket_lends_support_to_Shine_On_appeal/

Charity shops 'encourage giving'.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://money.aol.co.uk/2013/06/25/charity-shops-encourage-giving/

How charity shops in town centres make us even more likely to give.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2347035/How-charity-shops-town-centres-make-likely-give.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Charities move to strengthen fundraising self - regulation after complaints hike.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/news/charities-move-to-strengthen-fundraising-self-regulation-after-complaints-hike/4007139.article  

Papworth Trust and Workwise to be merged in next six weeks.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.papworth.org.uk/news-detail.php?aid=430

Nearly 20% of Wales' charity shops may close if Welsh Govt implements proposed changes to business rate relief says charities group.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22960857

Seamus O'Farrell exits charity Prostate Cancer UK for consultancy role.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/1186888/seamus-ofarrell-exits-charity-prostate-cancer-uk-consultancy-role/

Charity Retail Association puts together five-point plan for Welsh high streets.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.charityretail.org.uk/members/pdf/fivepointplan_wales.pdf

Charity Commission consults on regulation of common investment funds.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/about-the-commission/our-research/our-consultations/the-regulation-of-common-investment-funds/

How skills sharing can help close the funding gap in the charity sector.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/voluntary-sector-network/2013/jun/17/skills-sharing-funding-gap

Charities must get the most out of crowdfunding and gaming.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/voluntary-sector-network/2013/jun/18/charities-crowdfunding-gaming

Air ambulance charity announces new chopper for Redhill.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/10501114.Air_ambulance_charity_announces_new_chopper_for_Redhill/

Cyberbullying: How to keep your children safe.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/cyberbullying--how-to-keep-your-children-safe-144021049.html

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Charity Links 18/6/13

The Treasury will not exempt charities from complying with anti-tax avoidance measures being added to the Finance Bill because doing so could encourage more “sham charities”, Exchequer Secretary David Gauke said recently.

For more information, please click on the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/exchequer-secretary-to-the-treasury

For more information, please click on the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/exchequer-secretary-to-the-treasury#announcements

Whitbread Raises £1 Million for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.whitbread.co.uk/whitbread/media/newspressreleases/individualnewsarticle/whitbreadraises1mforgoshcc.html

The Bristol Property Agents Association has announced it is to support 2 charities over the next 12 months.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Property-agents-announce-support-charities/story-19258466-detail/story.html#axzz2WBdENqBF

The Llanelli Star is supporting Carmarthenshire Youth and Children's Association as its charity of the year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Help-Llanelli-Star-raise-money-charity-year/story-19258799-detail/story.html

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.llanellistar.co.uk/home

Birmingham City FC announces their charity partner

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/birmingham-city-blues-announce-nicolites-4308202

Sutton Coldfield charities in 2 year partnership

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk/Sutton-Coldfield-charities-year-partnership/story-19261556-detail/story.html

Law firm Clarkslegal marked its centenary year with a charity drinks reception at Reading Town Hall. Clarkslegal raised over £2,000 on the night for 3 charities.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/business/law-firm-clarkslegal-marked-centenary-4303323

The Sported Foundation, the UK's leading sport for development organisation, has been named ukactive's charity partner for 2013-2014.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.sported.org.uk/news/national-news/ukactive-chooses-sported-as-its-new-charity-partner

Staff at Crown Worldwide Group in Southbury Road, Enfield, have chosen BT Buddies as their charity of the year. Over the next 12 months, colleagues at Crown Worldwide will fundraise to help BT Buddies.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/localnews/10483183.Daredevils_limber_up_for_charity_fundraising_stunts/

York optician Acomb Specsavers held a fundraising event recently to support its charity partner, St Leonard's Hospice

For more information, please click on the following link: www.yorkpress.co.uk/features/charity/10487586.Optician_holds_day_for_helping_hospice/

Sandford Springs Golf Club holds fundraising event to kickstart their partnership with their charity of the year, Prior's Court School

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/10487726.Golf_club_to_hold_a_firewalk/

ea Consulting Group announces charity partnerships

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.eacg.co.uk/ea-consulting-group-announces-charity-partnerships/

Macmillan Cancer Support and Perkins Engines Company Limited, which has its head office in Peterborough, have just announced that their 2 year fundraising partnership has raised over £100,000 to support the vital work of the charity.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/business/business-news/caring-staff-at-two-firms-raise-200k-for-charities-1-5188907

Team members at the Wilkinsons stores situated in Crystal Peaks, Darnall, Frenchgate, Hillsborough, Sheffield and Wombwell, recently took part in a 11 mile sponsored walk, which raised over £3,600 for the stores new charity partner, The Sheffield Childrens Hospital.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.southyorkshiretimes.co.uk/community/big-hearted-wilko-workers-step-out-for-sick-kids-1-5770071

Smile Train, the world's largest cleft lip and palate non-profit, is proud to announce that it has been selected as the charity partner to perform the coin toss at the Gentlemen's Singles final, Wimbledon 2013.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.heraldonline.com/2013/06/17/4950808/worlds-largest-cleft-charity-smile.html

Thwaites Brewery, in Blackburn, has made the British Heart Foundation its charity of the year

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/blackburn/10489581.Blackburn_brewery_Thwaites_takes_charity_to_heart/

The Stagecoach Charitable Trust charity partner is InterAct

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.stagecoach.co.uk/harlow/news/25177-the-stage-coach-charitable-trust.html

For more information, please click on the following link: https://www.facebook.com/InterAct  

Emerald Group Publishing is fundraising this year for W.O.R.K, a charity dedicated to the support and funding of education, training and healthcare for widows and orphans in rural Kenya

For more information, please click on the following link: http://emeraldcharity.wordpress.com/

Charities and groups asked to get involved with Bridgwater Carnival 2013

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk/news/somerset_news/10482248.Charities_and_groups_asked_to_get_involved_with_Bridgwater_Carnival_2013/

Sainsbury's in Swindon town centre has announced that the Swindon Therapy Centre For MS will receive a year's worth of fundraising. The charity supports people with multiple sclerosis has been named as the store's new Local Charity Partner.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10478215.Store_all_ready_to_support_MS_charity/

Melksham's Sainsbury's store has announced the West Wilts Special Needs Activity Scheme as its new charity partner for the next year after a public vote.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/10486184.Melksham_store_picks_charity_cause/

Northfield based Life Line Food Bank has been announced as Sainsburys Northfield's new Local Charity. This is the fifth year of Sainsburys nationwide Local Charity partner initiative which sees stores supporting local organisations.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://b31.org.uk/2013/06/northfield-food-bank-named-as-new-sainsburys-local-charity-of-the-year/

Winners of 2013 Scottish Charity Awards were announced at a ceremony at Glasgow's Old Fruitmarket last Thursday

For more information, please click on the following link: http://caledonianmercury.com/2013/06/14/scottish-charity-awards/0039861

The Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) was named Scotland's charity of the year on Thursday 13th June 2013

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/sspca-named-charity-of-the-year-at-awards.21336202

Menzies Distribution helps launch new corporate social resonsibility forum

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/LatestNews/Menzies_Distribution_helps_launch_new_corporate_social_resonsibility_forum_with_Scotland%27s_leading_c-14259.html

Huddersfield based business Liverpool Victoria shares its skills with charity Hollybank Trust

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.examiner.co.uk/views-and-blogs/comment/2013/06/11/leader-huddersfield-business-shares-its-skills-with-mirfield-based-charity-86081-33455356/#ixzz2W2jNroNx

Gov UK: New data release opens the lid on charity finances

For more information, please click on the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-data-release-opens-the-lid-on-charity-finances

For more information, please click on the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/79276/Charities-Act-Review-2006-Public-Perceptions-of-charity.pdf

The Payments Council: How charities can switch bank accounts effectively

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.paymentscouncil.org.uk/media_centre/press_releases/-/page/2563/

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.paymentscouncil.org.uk/switch_service/

A Swindon charity has chance to land a space on the new, customised Monopoly board

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10488172.One_charity_set_to_sweep_the_Monopoly_board/?ref=nt

UK Charity to Build Mobile App to Crowdsource Cancer Cure

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2013/06/14/crowdsource-cancer-cure/

Community Service Volunteers (CSV), a charity registered in England and Wales, is running its Make a Difference campaign for 2013

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.xperedon.com/index3.php?page=400&article=2236

Google has donated £1m to the Internet Watch Foundation

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/12/internet_watch_foundation_google_donation/

Haywards Heath based Aria Assistance, a leading insurer and assistance provider, is donating redundant IT equipment to Computers for Charities, in Hailsham.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.midsussextimes.co.uk/news/business/haywards-heath-firm-helps-computers-for-charities-1-5183735

Worthing Dynamos: Charity angle to new networking meeting becomes fundraising event

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.westsussextoday.co.uk/community/local-businesses/charity-angle-to-new-networking-meeting-1-5185257

CharityComms and PR Newswire Join Forces to Help Charities Make Their Voice Heard

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/charitycomms-and-pr-newswire-join-forces-to-help-charities-make-their-voice-heard-211342731.html

New research gives detailed picture of environmental charities

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.tsrc.ac.uk/NewsandEvents/Detailedpictureofenvironmentalcharities/tabid/1009/Default.aspx

New UK Voluntary Sector Workforce Almanac 2013 website charts voluntary sector workforce

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.3rdsectorworkforce.org.uk/

Colleges should be given full charitable status a new report recommends

For more information, please click on the following link: http://icscotland.icnetwork.co.uk/news/scottish/tm_headline=report-issues-colleges-charity-call%26method=full%26objectid=33471929%26siteid=50141-name_page.html

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