Charity Links 14/1/13

When Two Become One: An Analysis of Charity Partnerships

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.cause4opinion.co.uk/2013/01/when-two-become-one-an-analysis-of-charity-partnerships/

Haworth Cat Rescue has won Airedale Shopping Centre's charity of the year contest, run in association with the Keighley News. Readers were asked to nominate finalists for the competition, in which the winner gains a year's worth of fundraising support.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/news_keighley/10156242.Haworth_Cat_Rescue_team_wins_Airedale_Shopping_Centre___s_charity_of_the_year_contest/

Warrington Guardian toasts 160 years in the town. And are supporting the Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace as our charity of the year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/10146146.Peace_centre_named_charity_of_the_year_as_Guardian_celebrates_160th_birthday/

In March 2013, Devon-based software company Paritor's staff will vote to support a music or education based charity for a year (April 2013 – March 2014).

For more information, please click on the following link: http://network.youthmusic.org.uk/resources/blogs/toby-r/are-you-paritors-next-charity-year

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.paritor.com/contact_pr.htm

HOMEGROWN Hollywood talent Sean Bean is leading a campaign to encourage more people to join the fight against cancer this year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/sean-s-new-year-charity-pledge-1-5295823

Boyzone star and professional motorsport driver, Shane Lynch, has today announced an innovative partnership between his company, Prestige Wrap & Customs, and the national charity, Caudwell Children.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://pressroom.ackura.com/caudwell/1210-Boyzone-star-launches--Dream--charity-partnership.aspx

Rory McIlroy sets up new charity to help children. The foundation has been set up to help children from around the world.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/rory-mcilroy-sets-up-new-charity-to-help-children-3348903.html

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/mcilroy-sets-up-charitable-foundation-16259822.html

Warning for theatre bodies over new charity rules. JMW Solicitors partner Keith Arrowsmith said the new 'charitable incorporation organisation' structure – currently available only to new applicants rather than existing charities – will take too long to process by the Charity Commission.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2013/01/warning-for-theatre-bodies-over-new-charity-rules/

GamesAid Elite Raises Over £7K for Charity. UK-based games industry charity GamesAid announced that its GamesAid Elite initiative raised £7253.16 for Christmas via auctions of what it called the games industry's "unwanted merchandise."

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.gamepolitics.com/2013/01/10/gamesaid-elite-raises-over-%C2%A37k-charity

Celebrities back Norfolk charity’s ‘sock it’ to eating disorders campaign

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/health/celebrities_back_norfolk_charity_s_sock_it_to_eating_disorders_campaign_1_1789319

The Mall Uxbridge is pleased to announce the Mall Cares Charity for 2013 is Harlington Hospice.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.themall.co.uk/my-mall/uxbridge/whats-on/1-Jan-1-14585.aspx

Media Displays, a Wakefield based media company have chosen to support The Children's Air Ambulance as their Charity of the Year throughout 2013.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thechildrensairambulance.org.uk/about-us/news/community-news/media-displays-choose-tcaa-as-their-charity-of-the-year-for-2013

Exeter Shilhay Community are the winners of Exeter Housing Charity of the Year 2013.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.theexeterdaily.co.uk/news/local-news/shilhay-wins-exeter-housing-charity-year-2013

Charity of the Year 2013 - OpenSure

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.opensure.net/charity-of-the-year-2013-vote-vote-vote/

Mayor Charities:

Sandwell (oldbury) Mayor Councillor Keith Davies announces the fifth annual Mayor's Charity Variety Show, Mayor Councillor Keith Davies is raising money for his chosen charities Help for Heroes and Different Strokes.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.sandwell.gov.uk/news/article/2121/mayors_charity_variety_show_back_for_record_fifth_year

Public back mayor's charity drive in Saffron Walden. His chosen charities are the Huntington’s Disease Association and the Riding for the Disabled branch, based in Debden.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Saffron-Walden/Public-back-mayors-charity-drive-10012013.htm

Lottery Funding:

Northern Ireland - : Big Lottery Fund

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/northernireland/global-content/press-releases/wales/100113_wal_bi_rehabilitate-substance-misusers

Big Lottery Fund - What's so good about Awards for All?

Finding out what different people think is important about our small grants programmes

In 2011/12, over 77% of all the grants BIG made were for Awards for All projects, but all of these combined only came to about 10% of our funding.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/research/identifying-and-meeting-need/whats-so-good-about-awards-for-all

Charity Links 07/1/13

Happy New Year to you all.

The Christie charity was given a fantastic early Christmas present - being chosen as BBC Radio Manchester's first ever 'charity of the year' for 2013

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.christie.nhs.uk/the-christie-charity/news-press-office/2012/241212.aspx

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-20836400

Downing Street has named Magic Breakfast and Friends of the Elderly as its 2 charity partners for 2013.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/downing-street-charity-partners-for-2013/

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.magicbreakfast.com/media-centre/press-releases/78-press-release-10-downing-street-names-magic-breakfast-as-new-charity-partner

16 HSBC branches have been supporting Weldmar Hospicecare as their chosen charity of the year since July 2011.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.weld-hospice.org.uk/about-us/news/charity-of-the-year

Cricket Derbyshire is inviting applications for up to 3 official charity partners in 2013. Selected partners will work closely with the club throughout the year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.derbyshireccc.com/dccc/index.php/news-and-features/news-headlines/606-derbyshire-seek-official-charity-partners

APCOA, a leading supplier of secure parking services, has chosen Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind as its charity partner.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/57589/apcoa-chooses-irish-guide-dogs-as-charity-partner

Waitrose gives £2.8m to Prince's charities. Increased sales of Duchy Originals saw more than £2.8 million donated to charity by supermarket Waitrose.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256363/Waitrose-gives-2-8m-Princes-charities-Record-sales-Duchy-Originals-fund-bumper-contribution.html   

Paul Daniels Magic World - Charity Fundraising 2013 is looking for a Charity of the Year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://pauldaniels.co.uk/charity-fundraising/

New charity shop Gift Aid rules to be announced.

HMRC is to introduce new rules that will dramatically reduce the numbers of letters that charities must send to donors in order to claim gift aid on their donations to charity shops.

From April 2013, in each tax year, donors will be able to make a single gift aid declaration that covers sale proceeds from donations of up to £100 if the charity operates the shop directly, or £1,000 if the goods are sold by a trading subsidiary. 

Donors will only need to be contacted by the charity again if income from the sale of their donated goods exceeds those amounts.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/charities/  

The British 10k London Run - If you are a new charity requiring long term (2013, 2014 & 2015) guaranteed places please down load an application form here.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thebritish10klondon.co.uk/50/new-charity-application

Manchester City and British Cycling in charity Velocity.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4705488/Manchester-City-and-British-Cycling-in-charity-Velocity.html

A startup CEO abandons Facebook after alleging 'click-fraud On a massive scale'.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.businessinsider.com/charity-engine-alleges-facebook-click-fraud-2012-12

Prostate Cancer: Funding Shortfall Charity Warns.

New figures show that although it is the fourth most common cancer overall, prostate cancer lies 20th in the league table of annual cancer research spending.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/prostate-cancer-funding-shortfall-charity-warns-043746339.html#B65vNdl

Alcohol Concern and British Liver Trust launch their January campaigns.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20880957  

Charitable incorporated organisations: more choice, but less clarity.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/voluntary-sector-network/2013/jan/04/charitable-incorporated-organisations-cios

Lottery Funding

Organisations such as Relate, whose Mid-Thames branch in Aylesbury has today been awarded almost £10,000 from Big Lottery Fund

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/global-content/press-releases/england/201212_se_a4a_festive_fillip_for_51

London homeless get the taste for celebrity dining: Big Lottery Fund.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/global-content/press-releases/england/201212_lon_london-homeless-get-the-taste-for-celebrity-dining

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and the Big Lottery Fund (BIG) announced a grant of £547,300 is to go to Eureka Park in Swadlincote.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.hlf.org.uk/news/Pages/EurekaParksecuresLotterysupport.aspx#.UNttmKzeBnk

A community organisation in Leeds has been awarded a grant from the Big Lottery Fund (BIG) to enable the group to meet the increasing demands of vulnerable people this winter.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/global-content/press-releases/england/201212_yh_yorks-shelter-serving-hot-food-in-time-for-xmas

Festive fillip for 42 south west projects sharing £335k from Big Lottery Fund.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/global-content/press-releases/england/201212_sw_a4a_festive_fillip_for_42

Mayor Charities

Mayor's charities 2012/2013 - Cheltenham Borough Council.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.cheltenham.gov.uk/info/1001/the_mayor_of_cheltenham/330/the_mayor_s_charities

Halesowen councillor's weight loss bid for Mayor's charities.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.halesowennews.co.uk/news/10112180.Halesowen_councillor_s_weight_loss_bid_for_Mayor_s_charities/

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.talkingretail.com/news/industry-news/morrisons-extends-save-the-children-charity-partnership

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.4-traders.com/WM-MORRISON-SUPERMARKETS-9590120/news/Wm-Morrison-Supermarkets-plc-Charity-of-the-year-15585169/

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

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.kids.org.uk/information/107706/update_on_our_charity_partnership_with_cathedral_g/

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://postcodegazette.com/news/9002785504/meadowhall-announces-chosen-charity-of-the-year-AT-sheffield-meadowhall/

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

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.bnpparibas.co.uk/en/2012/12/06/bnp-paribas-announces-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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://isleofman.isle-news.com/archives/kpmg-announces-charity-of-the-year-fundraising-total/19478/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+isle-of-man+%28Isle+News+%3A+Isle+of+Man+News%29

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

For more information, please click on the following link: http://firstcallcontractservices.co.uk/blog/first-call-contract-services-charity-partnership-for-2013/

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.harboroughmail.co.uk/news/local-news/boost-for-charity-thanks-to-generous-firm-1-4556887

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. 

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.milfordmercury.co.uk/news/10099458.Store_staff_on_search_for_charity_partner/?ref=rss

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/community/community-news/sywell-airshow-raises-a-massive-50-000-for-charity-in-bumper-year-1-4591105

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

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.beyondanalysis.net/news/our-charity-of-the-year-hits-a-record-breaking-fundraising-success/

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

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/news-and-events/all-regions/press-releases/two-major-uk-hearing-loss-charities-in-merger-discussions.aspx

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.

For more information, please click on the following link:

http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/news/funding/donations-charity-fall-20-cent-fewer-people-give-new-report

For more information, please click on the following link:

http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/sites/default/files/uk_giving_2012_full_report_1211.pdf

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

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10099462.Shearer__honoured__to_become_patron_of_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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.islington.gov.uk/islington/news-events/news-releases/2012/december/Pages/PR4888.aspx

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).

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thebigsociety.co.uk/blog/nexters-news-big-lottery-fund-announces-7-million-so-more-youth-have-somewhereto_/

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/12/11/deprived-area-palfrey-given-1m-lottery-windfall/

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/how_will_catton_grove_in_norwich_spend_1m_national_lottery_cash_1_1737689

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2012/12/10/lynemouth-area-awarded-1m-in-big-lottery-funding-61634-32398217/

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10093029.__10K_grant_for_Child_and_Adolescent_Mental_Health_Service/

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/sectors/technologyproducts/article/1162650/Npower-switches-marketing-focus-charity-ties/

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Circus-seeking-Cheltenham-charity-receive/story-17476706-detail/story.html

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.helpthehospices.org.uk/getinvolved/fundraising/companies/how/charity-of-the-year/

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/

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s103/the-x-factor/news/a441544/simon-cowell-reveals-x-factor-winners-single-charity-details.html

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.foresters.com//UK-EN/About/newsroom/Pages/in-news.aspx?location=United%20Kingdom

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/global-content/press-releases/scotland/051212_sco_iic_life-changing-funding

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

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/global-content/press-releases/wales/031212_wal_vsos_rural-welsh-projects

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.theadvertiserseries.co.uk/news/10075587.Villagers_celebrate___470k_lottery_windfall/

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.wishawpress.co.uk/wishaw-news/local-wishaw-news/wishaw-news/2012/11/28/newmains-community-hub-gets-2-3million-lottery-boost-76495-32318231/

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

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/efnews/10078785.Funding_boost_to_help_charity_bring_elderly_out_of_the_shadows/

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.harlowstar.co.uk/News/Harlow-news/Lottery-cash-boost-for-Harlow-mobility-charity-28112012.htm

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/business-news/villages-awarded-amppound50k-to-help-create-new-social-enterprises-16243490.html

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/local-news/groups-benefit-from-30-000-windfall-1-5168157

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.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.loughboroughecho.net/news/loughborough-news/2012/12/04/under-the-hammer-for-mayor-s-charities-73871-32360989/

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

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.felixstowestar.co.uk/news/news/felixstowe_mayor_s_charities_set_for_christmas_concert_boost_1_1713526