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/

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