Charity Links 14/8/13

UK Healthcare Provides Vital Donation to Major UK Charity Epilepsy Action

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/8/prweb10941110.htm

UK Healthcare makes charitable donation to MedEquip4Kids

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.privatehealth.co.uk/news/august-2013/uk-healthcare-donation-to-medequip4kids-38657/

Newport County help tackle prostate cancer

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/gwentnews/10594809.Newport_County_help_tackle_prostate_cancer/

Swindon pub staff in charity cycle challenge. Part of 3 year partnership between Macmillan Cancer Support & Greene King

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10593237.Pub_staff_in_charity_cycle_challenge/

ŠKODA announces renewal of its partnership with Dogs Trust as the official vehicle supplier to the charity.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.offalyexpress.ie/lifestyle/koda-renews-partnership-with-dogs-trust-1-5358863

For more information, please click on the following link: http://businessandleadership.com/marketing/item/42206-skoda-renews-partnership/

World Horse Welfare to continue as BETA's official charity partner

For more information, please click on the following link: http://horsetalk.co.nz/2013/08/07/world-horse-welfare-beta-official-charity/#axzz2bK2WgmKH

Repucom and Right to Play kick-off partnership

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.research-live.com/news/new-business/repucom-and-right-to-play-kick-off-partnership/4010264.article

For more information, please click on the following link: http://repucom.net/media/right-to-play-forges-charity-partnership-with-repucom-uk

IRIS Software are delighted to announce that the British Heart Foundation is their chosen Charity of the Year for 2013-2014.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.iris.co.uk/insight-opinion/news/2013/iris-announce-new-charity-of-the-year/

The DIY and housewares industry charity the Rainy Day Trust has welcomed another partner, IKO.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.buildersmerchantsnews.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/8132/Rainy_Day_Trust_gains_another_partner.html

The Candis Big Give is a fundraising initiative involving charities and their supporters

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.candis.co.uk/magazine/candis-big-give/

Bristol Law Firm Announces Charity Sponsorship

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.barcanwoodward.co.uk/firm-announces-2013-charities-of-the-year/

Bristol Airport Charity of the year

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.bristolairport.co.uk/about-us/community/charity-of-the-year.aspx

Bristol firm Jordans aims to raise £150k for charity

For more information, please click on the following link: http://visitbristol.co.uk/destinationbristol/information/news/2013/6/28/bristol-firm-jordans-aims-to-raise-150k-for-charity-to-celebrate-150-years-in-business-a2292

South Coast law firm Lester Aldridge has voted Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance to be their charity of the year

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.dsairambulance.org.uk/lester-aldridge-announces-its-charity-of-the-year-2/

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.lester-aldridge.co.uk/

FUNDING is hard to come by for the Clacton and District Occupational Workshop Society.

But this year the charity will be the lucky beneficiary of cash raised at the Clacton Carnival.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/10605292.Charity_to_benefit_from_carnival_collection/

Cardiff City have announced a new inovation that will see selected local charities benefit to the tune of £1million.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news/article/city-to-donate-a-welsh-charity-million-977267.aspx

For more information, please click on the following link: http://web.orange.co.uk/article/sports/cardiff_make_1m_charity_pledge

Lidl launches new charity initiative

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.retailgazette.co.uk/articles/34414-lidl-launches-new-charity-initiative

Spennymoor Town FC have decided to adopt Cancer Research UK as their chosen charity.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10604321.Spennymoor_Town_FC_are_tickled_pink/?ref=nt

Charitable Foundation - Yorkshire Building Society

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.ybs.co.uk/your-society/charity/charitable-foundation/index.html

RNLI - Charity of the Year 2013 - Yorkshire Building Society

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.ybs.co.uk/your-society/charity/charitable-foundation/charity-of-the-year-2013.html

M&S chose the WBRRC as its charity of the year and has spent the past year taking part in various activities to raise the funds.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/2013/newbury-ms-donates-1k-to-lifesaving-charity

Hilton in the Community Foundation: Children's causes to share £10k pot

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/10603948.Children___s_causes_to_share___10k_pot/

Sunfield chosen as official charity for Great Black Country Run

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/news/10606559.Sunfield_chosen_as_official_charity_for_Great_Black_Country_Run/

Oughtred & Harrison has formed a charity partnership with Hull charity Child Dynamix

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/Children-s-charity-gets-handy-giant-toybox/story-19624676-detail/story.html#axzz2bmnFp06b

DEBENHAMS in Blackburn is urging local charities to get in touch before August 16 if they want to become the store's 'adopted charity' next year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/blackburn/10600989.Debenhams_in_Blackburn_is_looking_for_a_local_charity/

Nuneaton Wilkinson's store are continuing their charity partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support for another year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.nuneaton-news.co.uk/News/Store-staff-continue-charity-partnership-20130808160258.htm

Linley & Simpson, which has a network of nine offices across North and West Yorkshire, has named Martin House Children's Hospice as its inaugural Charity of the Year

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.aboutmyarea.co.uk/West-Yorkshire/Leeds/LS7/News/Local-News/255034-Rental-specialist-Linley-and-Simpson-aim-to-see-fund-raising-go-through-the-roof-as-Martin-House-unveiled-as-its-charity-of-the-year

The Elder Stubbs Festival, which raises money for Oxfordshire charities, have warned it may not go ahead next year due to a cut in a grant from Oxford City Council.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/10601759.Popular_festival_may_be_last_as_council_funding_cuts_bite/

The Reading Agency announces its newest partnership with award-winning publisher Barrington Stoke

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/48847

Organisers of this year's charity Ladies Driving Challenge at RAF Portreath are hoping for bumper numbers, as this year will be the last of its kind.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk/news/cornwall_news/10603696.2013_Ladies_Driving_Challenge_for_Marie_Curie_will_be_the_last/

Curzon PR has selected the Sarah Charlton Charitable Foundation as its 2013 charity partner

For more information, please click on the following link: http://curzonpr.com/new-charity-partner-sara-charlton-charitable-foundation/

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.prurgent.com/2013-08-12/pressrelease311156.htm

New partnership with Horsham Matters helps Saxon Weald tenants moving house

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/local/new-partnership-with-horsham-matters-helps-saxon-weald-tenants-moving-house-1-5378962

Cricket Derbyshire announces its Official Charity Partners for 2013

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.chesterfieldpost.co.uk/sport/cricket/chcricket_00000219.html

Fantastic Media links up with Huddersfield Town

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/business/fantastic-media-links-up-huddersfield-5710991

Tyre company launches charity fundraising campaign

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.knutsfordguardian.co.uk/news/10595198.Tyre_company_launches_charity_fundraising_campaign/

Sainsbury's

Children with Cancer UK announced as Sainsbury’s Bloomsbury local charity partner of the year 2013

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.childrenwithcancer.org.uk/News/sainsburys

Newhaven Sainsbury's backing Haydn's Wish appeal

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10603260.Newhaven_Sainsbury___s_backing_Haydn___s_Wish_appeal/

Sainsbury's Local store on Keighley Road in Bradford has selected Bradford Disability Sport and Leisure as its charity of the year for the second year

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/10604360.Chosen_charity/

Sainsbury's Ely celebrates successful first few months of charity partnership

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/sainsbury_s_ely_celebrates_successful_first_few_months_of_charity_partnership_1_2322692

Cancer Research UK is the charity most people trust, says survey by Incite

Charities could transform Britain's high streets http://bit.ly/14l8KDL

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2013/aug/06/charities-could-transform-high-streets  

Regulator says high-pay UK charities risk reputations-report http://bit.ly/176yzGr

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.trust.org/item/20130806115942-820b4

How much charities spend on 'charitable activities' http://bit.ly/13OaOk1

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/10225883/How-much-charities-spend-on-charitable-activities.html

SORP: the accounting framework for charities http://bit.ly/19OmYAU

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2013/aug/07/sorp-consultation-charity-framework

Kvisio launches GiftAid Online for small charities

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

For more information, please click on the following link: http://kvisio.com/giftease

New crackdown on spiralling charity executive pay. The Charity Commission, which regulates charities, said that it would be working with The National Council for Voluntary Organisations on the guidance, which will be published in the spring. The new guidance will be the first ever code of conduct governing pay in the charity sector.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10237808/New-crackdown-on-spiralling-charity-executive-pay.html

Why charities aren't bagging a fortune from your donations

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.independent.co.uk/money/spend-save/why-charities-arent-bagging-a-fortune-from-your-donations-8755194.html

The National Blind Children's Society to move out of its Highbridge headquarters

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.burnham-on-sea.com/news/2013/nbcs-moves-07-08-13.php

Basepoint Business Centres: Supporting business and helping charities

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.wiltshirebusinessonline.co.uk/news/10609469.Supporting_business_and_helping_charities/

Job Vacancies

Corporate Fundraiser - Senior Account Manager

For more information, please click on the following link: http://jobs.thirdsector.co.uk/job/357852/corporate-fundraiser-senior-account-manager/

Senior Account Manager

For more information, please click on the following link: http://jobs.thirdsector.co.uk/job/357853/senior-account-manager/

Corporate Partnerships Manager

For more information, please click on the following link: http://jobs.thirdsector.co.uk/job/357907/corporate-partnerships-manager/

Corporate Partnerships and High Value Manager

For more information, please click on the following link: http://jobs.thirdsector.co.uk/job/357818/corporate-partnerships-and-high-value-manager-/

Corporate Fundraiser

For more information, please click on the following link: http://jobs.thirdsector.co.uk/job/357980/corporate-fundraiser/

Charity Links 7/08/13

Staples’ Employees Choose a Charity and Change Lives

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.staples.co.uk/newsCentre_Associates-choose-charity_subsite

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

National Grid has shortlisted four fantastic charities, from a large number of applicants to go forward for selection to become its first charity partner.

For more information, please click on the following link: https://www.nationalgrid.com/corporate/Media+Centre/Press+Releases/Global+Press+Releases/01.08.13+CharityPartner.htm

Members of games industry charity GamesAid are now able to nominate charities for possible support in 2013.

Nominations should be reserved for small UK charities focused on children and young adults with a turnover of no more than £5m and with no more than 30 per cent of turnover being spent on admin costs.

The nominations window will remain open until 23:59 on the night on Friday August 16th 2013.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/gamesaid-opens-nominations-for-2013-charities/0119641

Persimmon Homes Midlands, who have made the Hannah Payne Memorial Trust their chosen charity for the year

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.persimmonhomes.com/news-article/regional-fundraising-for-family-support-charity-20480

Online retailer WAE+ has announced its intention to donate at least £10,000 to its Charity of the Year, Midlands Air Ambulance, throughout 2013.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10973187.htm

August's game against Scotland at Wembley is designated as a Teenage Cancer Trust International to highlight the partnership between The FA and the Teenage Cancer Trust.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thefa.com/england/News/2013/teenage-cancer-trust-video-310713

Capita Travel and Events' employees complete Virgin Active London Triathlon. Cancer Research UK is Capita's charity partner.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.incentivetravel.co.uk/news/agency-news/15021-capita-travel-and-events-employees-complete-virgin-active-london-triathlon-for-charity

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.wiltshirebusinessonline.co.uk/news/latest/10582933.Venues_Event_Management_stretching_for_charity/

BAG4SPORT has been chosen by Devizes Chamber of Commerce as its charity of the year for 2013-14.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/sport/10586189.SPORT__Chamber_adding_weight_to_charity_cause/

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/sport/generalsport/10586189.SPORT__Chamber_adding_weight_to_charity_cause/

Mercure Newton Park Hotel, in Newton Solney, will be selling a selection of special pink desserts in aid of Breast Cancer Care, its 2013 Charity of the Year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/News/Hotel-decided-to-create-pink-deserts-in-bid-to-boost-charity-20130801131751.htm

The Royal Free Charity is one of seven organisations with incomes between £1million and £10m, including Alzheimer's Research UK and London-based UK Youth, to be shortlisted for the title of Charity of the Year by industry magazine Charity Times.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.barnet-today.co.uk/news.cfm?id=26470&headline=Two%20award%20nominations%20for%20Royal%20Free%20Hospital%20charity

Bath Building Society has announced its charity of the year as Dorothy House, with the business working with them until the end of 2014.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.bathbuildingsociety.co.uk/bath-building-society-has-this-week-announced-its-charity-of-the-year-as-dorothy-house/

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.nowbath.co.uk/news/dorothy-house-chosen-as-building-societys-charity-51657/

Anthony Nolan is the chosen charity for the Onrec Conference and Exhibition 2013.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.onrec.com/news/news-archive/making-the-perfect-match-the-onrec-online-recruitment-conference-and-exhibition-20

Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research is one of Cadbury World's 2013 charity partners

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/things-to-do/cadbury-world-puts-shifting-sands-5391006

Apprentices at Airbus in Broughton organised a charity five-a-side football tournament, raising almost £900 for charity. Airbus’ charity partner in the UK is Alzheimer’s Society.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/news/airbus-broughton-apprentices-net-cash-5391178

Gasworks and Christie's collaborate for charity

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/70877/gasworks-and-christies-come-together-for-charity/

Woolwich Ferry rekindles its annual charity river trip

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/newscentre/28348.aspx

The Co-operative hits £2.5M milestone for their Charity of the Year

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.co-operative.coop/join-the-revolution/our-plan/keeping-communities-thriving/charity-of-the-year/Latest-News/Charity-of-the-Year/The-Co-operative-hits-25M-milestone-for-Charity-of-the-Year-Fun-delivering-funds-for-young-carers/

The Sunday Times Christmas Appeal 2013 is launched

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/charity/article1074158.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_08_02

Milestones Trust is pleased to announce that it has been chosen as Downend and Bromley Heath Parish Council's 'charity of the year'.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.milestonestrust.org.uk/news/84/milestones-trust-named-eucharity-of-the-yearey

The Original Factory Shop in Horncastle have organised a fun day to raise money for their charity partner, Marie Curie Cancer Care.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.horncastlenews.co.uk/lifestyle/leisure/horncastle-s-original-factory-shop-stages-charity-day-1-5334656

Staff at the Wilko store in Park Farm Shopping Centre, Allestree, have raised £740 for Macmillan Cancer Support, the store's regional charity of the year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.belpernews.co.uk/news/local/store-raises-740-for-cancer-charity-1-5915454

People’s Postcode Trust today announced the launch of its biggest project yet – Dream Fund 2014.

Charities encouraged to compete for dream project funding

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/81839/charities-encouraged-to-compete-for-dream-project-funding

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

Pelican Healthcare announces their Charity of the Year 2013 as The Stomawise Caravan Appeal

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.pelicanhealthcare.co.uk/fundraising/pelican-healthcare-charity-of-the-year-2013-the-stomawise-caravan-appeal/#.UgDbXqzs8_U

Hays selects The Brain Tumour Charity for £100,000 two year fundraising partnership

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.hays.co.uk/press-releases/HAYS_772767

The Phone Co-op partners with Community Network

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.phoneandbroadband.coop/about-us/news-and-press/2013/august/the-phone-co-op-announces-partnership-with-social-teleconferencing-charity-community-network/

Menzies Distribution fundraising team has raised nearly £10k just 4 weekks before 28 man-team starts their sponsored bike ride

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/LatestNews/Charity_donations_reach_%C2%A310,000_four_weeks_ahead_of_sponsored_bike_ride-14554.html

Wilko staff in Park Farm Shopping Centre, Allestree has raised £740 for Macmillan Cancer Support the store's regional charity of the year

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.belpernews.co.uk/news/local/store-raises-740-for-cancer-charity-1-5915454

PwC's office in Milton Keynes is to cycle America for their charity partners

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.mkweb.co.uk/Charities/PwC-employees-to-cycle-America-for-charity-20130806122440.htm  

Sainsburys back Thurrock Foodbank as their Charity Of The Year 2013/14.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.yourthurrock.com/2013/08/02/sainsburys-back-thurrock-foodbank/

Sainsbury's in Redhill has announced Friends of Brooklands School as new charity partner

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk/Sainsbury-s-announces-Friends-Brooklands-School/story-19597792-detail/story.html#axzz2b6s937RL

Number of charity shops in London rise 16% in two years

The Small Charities Coalition, which supports almost 7,000 charities across the UK, has partnered with OCC.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/486759/246ab38488/ARCHIVE#onecent

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.onecentcall.org/charities.html

Why UK charities rarely benefit from the rise in corporate volunteering

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.cityam.com/article/why-uk-charities-rarely-benefit-rise-corporate-volunteering

Majority of public think having a London office is a waste of a charity's money

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.charitytimes.com/ct/London_offices_are_a_waste_of_charities_money_says_survey.php

Legal aid charities start partnership before cuts to programmes begin to bite

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/news/content/15820/legal_aid_charities_start_partnership_before_cuts_to_programmes_start_to_bite

Barclays Pingit app launches 'donate with Gift Aid' function

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.4-traders.com/BARCLAYS-PLC-9583556/news/Barclays-PLC-Charities-set-to-benefit-as-Barclays-launches-Gift-Aid-on-Barclays-Pingit-17167574/

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.barclays.co.uk/Mobile/BarclaysPingit/P1242603570446

Lobbying bill might mean more charities have to register with Electoral Commission

For more information, please click on the following link: http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/transparencyoflobbyingnonpartycampaigningandtradeunionadministration.html

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2013-2014/0097/en/14097en.htm

For more information, please click on the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-bill-to-bring-more-transparency-to-politics

New lobbying Bill published

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.wcva.org.uk/about-us/news/2013/07/new-lobbying-bill-published

For more information, please click on the following link: http://bwbllp.com/knowledge/2013/07/24/lobbying-and-non-party-campaigning/

Test Valley Borough Council offers chance to advertise your charity on new banners in area

For more information, please click on the following link: https://www.testvalley.gov.uk/business/towncentremanagement/charity-banner-sites/  

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisishampshire.net/news/10585638.Advertise_your_charity_event_on__new_banners /

Job Vacancies

Senior Corporate Partnerships Officer

For more information, please click on the following link: http://jobs.thirdsector.co.uk/job/357756/senior-corporate-partnerships-officer/

New Partnership Officer - Alzheimer's Society

For more information, please click on the following link: http://jobs.thirdsector.co.uk/job/357765/new-partnership-officer-st-katharine-s-docks/