Charity Matters Oct/Nov 2011 ISSUE 39

TWINS SAVED
British charity Facing the World, which funds reconstructive surgery for children with severe facial disfigurements recently funded life-saving surgery for two one-year….

TRUST THE TRUST?
The National Trust is currently lobbying the government, and their 3.6 million members, to ensure that proposed changes to planning rules do not result in unchecked….

CODEBREAKER’S HUTS GET £4.6 MILLION
A donation of £4.6 million has been made to the Bletchley Park Trust by the Heritage Lottery Fund to preserve the huts at Bletchley Park used to house the breakers….

MORE RED TAPE – LESS VOLUNTEERS
The number of people volunteering is at an all time low, the government’s annual citizenship survey has found….

REPREHENSIBLE TREATMENT COSTS WELSH CHARITY
The Association of Voluntary Organisations in Wrexham has been ordered by a tribunal to pay more than £21,000 to a member of staff it discriminated against, victimised….

CHARITY BAG FRAUDSTERS CAUGHT
City of London Police officers have arrested four men they believe are behind theft and fraudulent deception involving bags of second hand clothes left out for charities to….

POLICE FRAUDSTER CAUGHT
A detective who controlled a police charity, Child Victims of Crime, has admitted defrauding them out of at least £26,000….

ARE YOU FUNDING ILLEGAL WHALING?
The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) have revealed that cod and haddock caught by Icelandic whaling ships are being supplied to fish wholesaler….

MOBILE AND DIGITAL CONFERENCE 2011
The above, hosted by Fundraising magazine, takes place on November 21 at the Great Connaught Rooms, formerly the New Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street….

ANYONE YOU KNOW?
The wickedly satirical Social Stereotypes column in a recent Telegraph Magazine, featuring “The ambitious couple” could twang a few chords out there….