Charity Matters Aug/Sep 2008 ISSUE 13

COUNCILS SET BAD EXAMPLES
Councils, sadly, continue to behave badly. Councillors at Portsmouth refused to donate £500 to a fun day aimed at raising money for Help for Heroes, a charity looking after….

KILL ALL BIRDS THEN
Meanwhile the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is backing a couple who have been ordered by officials at Berwick on Tweed council to stop feeding….

MORE BENT TV
The BBC has been fined a total of £400,000, a record amount for the BBC by Ofcom for fakery of which Beijing Olympic organisers would be proud….

BANKERS ETHICS
The published number of repossessions of houses by lenders is inaccurate because it doesn’t include repossessions by second charge lenders, say housing charity….

ON GIVING MORE
Men give more to charity when with women they find attractive than on their own, or with other men, according to research carried out by Oxford University and the….