Are Charity Donations Being Affected by the Current Financial Climate?
The BBC reported yesterday that UK charities are feeling the effects of the economic downturn, with donations being down on last year and charitable organisations making cutbacks to conserve existing services. The survey, run by the Charity Commission questioned 1,003 charities in England and Wales showed that over 50% said they had been affected by [...]
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Limited Edition Crystal iPod Nanos from Sir Elton John
Sir Elton John, Selfridges and Goldgenie have launched a very special limited edition crystal encrusted iPod Nano to raise funds for Sir Elton’s charity EJAF.
The EJAF Starburst iPOD Nano is inlaid with Swarovski crystals and was designed by Dragon’s Den winner Laban Roomes, owner of Goldgenie. Sir Elton personally oversaw the design which included having [...]
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Red Nose Day Back to Tickle Your Funny Bone
Hold on to your hats (and noses), Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day is back on the 13th March! Everyone’s favourite bi-annual charity event returns for 2009 bigger and better than ever.
Comic Relief was set up in 1985 by comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis in response to the famine in Ethiopia and the first Red Nose Day [...]
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The Forever Story – Support TreeHouse By Adding Your Contribution
The Forever Story is a brand new site aimed to at helping to raise money for TreeHouse. The idea of the site is for a story to be written by many different authors in order for it become the world’s longest collectively-written story. The opening 35 words have been contributed by Nick Hornby who starts [...]
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M&Co Breast Cancer Charity Top
News reaches us at Donateto that M&Co are running a promotion to support breast cancer. £2 from all sales of their pink breast cancer charity top get donated to charity!
The top has three quarter length sleeves (as you can see on the left) and is available in S,M,L,XL and XXL. It retails for £14.
Breast [...]
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