ON GIVING
Forty American billionaires, including Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, George Lucas and Michael Bloomberg, have pledged to give to charity at least half of their fortunes….

VICTIM STARTS CHARITY
Katie Piper, a former TV presenter and model who was badly disfigured in a horrific acid attack has started a new charity for burns victims….

BULLIED TO DEATH
More than half of the suicides of children aged 10-14 are connected to bullying….

VAT LOSS FOR CHARITIES
The raising of VAT in January to 20% will hit charities, which cannot claw the money back on purchases….

THIEF AT PRINCE OF WALES CHARITY JAILED
The former financial director at the Foundation for Integrated Health, a charity founded by the Prince of Wales, has been convicted of theft, fraud and money-laundering….

MORE FRAUD
Also jailed for three years was Moses Bushiri, 48, an asylum seeker from Birundi in central Africa, who swindled charity grant bodies out of £42,000….

RSPCA IN THE PILLORY
The RSPCA persecutes innocent animal owners to generate the publicity that keeps donations of £115 million a year rolling in….

MORE ON DANGEROUS DOGS
Battersea Dogs and Cats Home put down a third of the dogs they took in last year, most of those because they were bull terriers too dangerous to re-house….

PRIVATE SCHOOLS HIKE RATES
Free places given to poor pupils by private schools anxious to keep their lucrative charity status will be paid for by a hike in fees….

TECHNOLOGY FOR CHARITIES
Focussing on technology for the not-for profit sector the new nfp technology exhibition takes place on Tuesday 7 September at the Business Design Centre, London….