Charity Links 07/05/13

Royal Mail Group is inviting employees across the UK to take up the £100 challenge in support of its charity partner, Prostate Cancer UK. The goal is for each team or individual to raise £100 for Royal Mail's Charity of the Year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.royalmailgroup.com/community-supporting-our-communities/community-charity-year

During May, Sainsbury's branches will invite nominations from shoppers and staff for a local charity for each store. The selected charities will benefit from a year-long link with their local supermarket, with staff getting involved to organise fundraising events and volunteering for the charity throughout the year.

Nominations for Sainsbury's local stores' charity of the year close on 14 May 2013.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/sol/storelocator/storelocator_landing.jsp

Sainsbury's in Livingston is on the lookout for a new charity to raise money for. Shoppers now have the chance to find the store a 'Local Charity Partner' to support and can vote for their nomination.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.westlothiancourier.co.uk/2013/05/02/sainsburys-appeal-for-charities-to-come-forward-62405-33269101/

Vote Martha Trust as Sainsburys Local Charity of the Year 2013

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.marthatrust.org.uk/1803/news/vote-martha/

Sainsbury's Ashbourne appeals for new Charity partner

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.ashbournenewstelegraph.co.uk/News/Town-supermarket-appeals-for-new-partner-20130506165749.htm

Sainsbury's Nantwich on the hunt for 12-month 'charity partner'

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.crewechronicle.co.uk/crewe-news/local-crewe-news/2013/05/01/sainsbury-s-nantwich-on-the-hunt-for-12-month-charity-partner-96135-33262725/

Bright Red is named Charity of the Year

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/latest-business-news/2013/05/01/bright-red-is-named-charity-of-the-year-51140-33262894/

Bury Times: Big Help in Store for shopmobility charity

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.burytimes.co.uk/news/10396656.Big_Help_in_Store_for_shopmobility_charity/

MGA Entertainment donates £3000 to cancer charity

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.toynews-online.biz/news/38753/MGA-Entertainment-donates-3000-to-CLIC-Sargent

FTI Consulting UK choose Nordoff Robbins as Charity of the Year

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk/news/fti-consulting-uk-choose-nordoff-robbins-charity-year-2013

STANLEY House Hotel and Spa at Mellor has selected Lancashire cancer fighters, The Rosemere Cancer Foundation, as its charity of the year for 2013-2014.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/business/10401997.Foundations_laid_for_Ribble_Valley_Hotel_to_help_charity/

Official Charities for Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open are Connecting Carers and Maggie's Highlands

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.championsukplc.com/celebrity/news/official-charities-aberdeen-asset-management-scottish-open-delighted-campaign-launch

Employees at Hull-based communications service provider KCOM Group have scaled the highest mountains and one has even cycled the equivalent of the Tour de France to raise an impressive £60,000 in the last twelve months for charity partner, Sparks.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://bdaily.co.uk/third-sector/06-05-2013/kcom-scales-mountains-to-raise-60000-for-sparks/

Job Vacancies

Corporate Partnerships Account Manager Recruiter: BBC Children in Need

For more information, please click on the following link: http://jobs.thirdsector.co.uk/job/355082/corporate-partnerships-account-manager/?utm_source=jobfeed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=job%2bexport&ProcessedTrackID=55

Major Donor Manager - Deafblind Charity

For more information, please click on the following link: http://jobs.thirdsector.co.uk/job/355073/major-donor-manager-deafblind-charity/?utm_source=jobfeed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=job%2bexport&ProcessedTrackID=55

Charity Links 30/04/13

Nomura Announces New Fundraising Partnership With St Giles Trust. In April this year, Nomura's two year partnership with Rainbow Trust Children's Charity came to an end with Nomura employees raising over £500,000 against an initial target of £300,000.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://hereisthecity.com/2013/04/30/nomura-announces-new-fundraising-partnership-with-st-giles-trust/

York bus operator First is supporting Catch The Bus Week for Macmillan Cancer Support.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/features/charity/10384379.First_buses_support_Catch_The_Bus_Week_for_charity/?ref=rss

Human Capital Investment Group is proud to announce a new 2013-14 Charity of the Year partnership with YouthNet.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://hcigltd.com/Human-Capital-Investment-Group-form-COTY-partnership-with-YouthNet

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.resourcinggroup.co.uk/news-article/62/YouthNet-chosen-as-Resourcing-Group%27s-Charity-of-the-Year-2013-14

Sainsbury's Tamworth: This week sees the launch for the fifth year running of Sainsbury's Local Charity partnership giving all their customers and colleagues the chance to vote for local causes within the community that they wish to support.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisistamworth.co.uk/Charity-begins-home-shoppers-staff-Tamworth-s/story-18837819-detail/story.html#axzz2RyjBnMwp

Sainsbury's Swadlincote, Nr Burton-upon-Trent: This week sees the launch for the fifth year running of Sainsbury's Local Charity partnership giving all their customers and colleagues the chance to vote for local causes within the community that they wish to support.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/News/Customers-invited-to-nominate-charity-for-Sainsburys-funding-20130430104229.htm

Children's charity backed by Budleigh Salterton firm Paritor as Charity of the Year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.exmouthjournal.co.uk/news/children_s_charity_backed_by_budleigh_firm_1_2174128

Charity partnership: Vision Express and the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.visionexpress.com/news/0026/childhood-eye-cancer-trust/

UK Healthcare supports autism charity Kidz2gether.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.privatehealth.co.uk/news/april-2013/uk-healthcare-supports-autism-charity-38201/

Tesco staff and customers have raised £11.9 million in one year for Cancer Research UK, its charity of the year, beating the £10 million target set in March 2012. The money was raised by staff, customers and suppliers.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/topics/tesco-staff-and-customers-raise-119m-for-cancer-research/238665.article

ECB provides Tickets for Troops, the military charity, over 1,500 free tickets.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/england/icc-champions-trophy-2013/tickets-for-troops-champions-trophy,321295,EN.html?Pf=com.otherobjects.cms.model.structure.Folder-L-2

New gift aid declaration service Charities Online has had nearly 1,000 charity users register with it so far, the HMRC has revealed.

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

Charities Online is the new way that charities are required to claim Gift Aid repayments from HMRC.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.cfg.org.uk/~/media/Files/Policy/Tax%20and%20VAT/Charities%20Online%20-%20is%20your%20charity%20ready.ashx

Halton Housing Trust votes Alzheimer's Society as new fundraising partner.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.runcornandwidnesweeklynews.co.uk/runcorn-widnes-news/runcorn-widnes-local-news/2013/04/25/halton-housing-trust-votes-alzheimer-s-society-as-new-fundraising-partner-55368-33227327/

Gloucestershire Deaf Association (GDA) are delighted to announce that the Cirencester and District Soroptimist International Group have decided to choose them as their Charity of the Year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Local-Soroptimist-International-Group-chooses-GDA/story-18803865-detail/story.html#ixzz2RaHjeVWp

Barclays Wealth and Investment Management staff in the Isle of Man have chosen to support The Children's Centre and Hospice Isle of Man as joint 'charities of the year.'

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.isleofman.com/News/details/54652/barclays-presents-first-cheques-to-charities-of-the-year

Red Wellies is chosen by readers as Lynn News Charity of the Year.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/lifestyle/lifestyle-and-leisure-news/red-wellies-is-chosen-by-readers-as-lynn-news-charity-of-the-year-1-5039245

The Chiswick-based charity, the MicroLoan Foundation, has been selected as Charity of the Year by the professional women's networking group, City Women Network.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=microloan002.htm

Hever Castle raises £1388 for Alzheimer's Society as their chosen Charity of the Year from April 2012 to April 2013.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/news_index.php

Senior Marketing Executive vacancy - Charity Partnerships.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.prweekjobs.co.uk/job/359374/senior-marketing-executive-in-house-financial-services-and-charity-partnerships-/

Charity Links 24/04/13

YouthNet and Age UK were the official 2013 London Marathon charity of the year partners, whilst the blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan has been named official charity partner for the 2014 London Marathon.

Morrisons and Save the Children extend partnership to next January 2014.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.morrisons.co.uk/corporate/CR/Charity-of-the-Year/

NewcastleGateshead Initiative has named Bright Red as its Charity of the Year for 2013/14, after a staff vote.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://tyneandwear.sky.com/noticeboard/post/63905/ngi-name-bright-red-as-their-charity-of-the-year 

The Co-operative hits £1Million milestone for Young Carers.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.internationalsupermarketnews.com/news/11839

Service station staff back charities. Roadchef workers held a ballot across the company and voted to support Marie Curie Cancer Care as its national Charity of the Year.
For more information, please click on the following link: 

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10367821.Service_station_staff_back_charities/

Moto in the Community raises £200k for Help for Heroes.
For more information, please click on the following link: 

http://www.motointhecommunity.co.uk/grants.htm

Two hundred graduates who joined Lloyds Banking Group in 2012 are aiming to raise £1 million for Alzheimer's Society, the Group's charity of the year.
For more information, please click on the following link: 

http://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/community/charity_of_the_year.asp

Staff at Sainsbury's in Attleborough have walked 93 miles this week in aid of their charity of the year, Star Throwers.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.dissexpress.co.uk/news/latest-news/sainsbury-s-staff-walk-93-miles-for-charity-of-the-year-1-5012500

Action on Hearing Loss Northern Ireland has been chosen as Edwards and Company Solicitors Charity of the Year for 2013.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/news-and-events/n-ireland/news/edwards-and-co-charity-of-the-year-partnership.aspx

JustGivingTV: JustGiving Awards 2013 - Charity of the Year

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFKU4hMc2a4

Trowbridge Chamber of Commerce serach for their Charity of the Year 2013-2014 has started. The cutoff date for nominations is Wednesday 8th May 2013.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://trowbridgechamberofcommerce.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/chamber-charity-of-the-year-2013-2014/ 

York: Teaching Hospital Charity named as Cedar Court Grand Hotel's chosen charity

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/features/charity/10369168.Teaching_Hospital_Charity_named_as_hotel_s_chosen_charity/?ref=rss

Sussex County Cricket Club is pleased to announce its partnership with Rockinghorse Children’s Charity.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/news-1/rockinghorse-partnership-announced-with-childrens-charity

Lloyd's, the world's specialist insurance market, and RedR, the international disaster relief charity, have today announced a new partnership.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.lloyds.com/lloyds/press-centre/press-releases/2013/04/lloyds-announces-new-disaster-relief-charity-partnership

Cancer Research UK – Carat Charity of the Year 2013/14

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.caratmanchester.co.uk/news/cancer-research-uk-carat-charity-of-the-year-201314/

The Toy Trust is calling on the industry to help it decide which charity should benefit from its fundraising in 2014.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.toynews-online.biz/news/38681/Toy-Trust-makes-charity-call

Jersey: DCG employees elect local children's charity for 2013

For more information, please click on the following link: http://jersey.isle-news.com/archives/dcg-employees-elect-local-childrens-charity-for-2013/16993/

Migrants who send money home are more likely to give than UK households

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/3355/study-finds-culture-of-giving-among-migrants-in-uk

Royal Central: Duchess Of Cambridge Becomes Patron Of Three New Charities

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.royalcentral.co.uk/cambridges/duchess-of-cambridge-becomes-patron-of-three-new-charities-6183/

Property problems the greatest risk for four in 10 charities, says report

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/Management/article/1178569/property-problems-greatest-risk-four-10-charities-says-report/

Lottery Funding

Final call to enter life-changing £50k People's Millions TV contest

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/global-content/press-releases/scotland/160413_sco_pm_peoples-millions-tv-contest

The Big Lottery Fund: If you’re a Sports groups applying to Awards For All then please click here.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://bigblogscotland.org.uk/2013/04/09/sports-groups-applying-to-awards-for-all/

Over £8 million lottery investment in Scotland’s communities

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/england/global-content/press-releases/scotland/100413_sco_iic_investment-in-scotlands-communities

A total of 14 projects throughout Wales share in the £3,780,570 awarded through the Big Lottery Fund's People and Places programme.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22126338 

Gwendraeth Valley groups hail Big Lottery Fund cash boost

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Gwendraeth-Valley-groups-hail-Big-Lottery-Fund/story-18727606-detail/story.html#axzz2Qv7SQoR0 

The Arncroach and Carnbee Community Development Trust, has been awarded £3610 from The Big Lottery Fund.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/local-headlines/looking-to-the-year-ahead-1-2885629

Isle Futures, a community-led charity based in the Isle of Whithorn, has been awarded £940,000 from the Investing in Communities Big Lottery fund

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.gallowaygazette.co.uk/news/local-headlines/million-lottery-funding-for-isle-hall-1-2891008

New Mayor chooses charities - Brighton & Hove City Council

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1278054&textSize=sml

Llanelli charity Links has received a £193,955 award from the Big Lottery Fund, which will help ex-service personnel and their families.

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Llanelli-charity-LINKS-use-Big-Lottery-Fund-cash/story-18727840-detail/story.html#axzz2Qv7SQoR0

Big grant to improve lives of isolated elderly

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.carrickfergustimes.co.uk/news/local/big-grant-to-improve-lives-of-isolated-elderly-1-4984821

Loughshore Care Partnership (LCP) has been awarded a grant of £198,873 from the Big Lottery Fund's Reaching Out: Connecting Older People programme

For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.lurganmail.co.uk/news/local/befriending-project-receives-200k-boost-1-5006609