HELP THE GOVERNMENT
Everyone should routinely give 10 % of their estate to charity when they die. This is the view of the current Coalition, which wants to encourage more philanthropy from….

GOVERNMENT VERSUS CHRISTIANS
A charity, The Christian Institute, is funding the legal fees of the West Country guesthouse owners who are being taken to court by the government’s Equality….

£1.2 MILLION LEGAL BILL FOR RSPCA
The RSPCA has lost its legal battle to keep a £2 million estate left to it in a will….

GETTING MORE MONEY FOR DRUGS?
Drug addicts are being paid by an American charity to undergo sterilisation….

CHARITY BOXES STOLEN
Thieves stole charity boxes for the Royal British Legion, Macmillan Cancer Support, Action Research and Help for Heroes on Remembrance Sunday in North….

A BIT ON THE SIDE?
Family charities have condemned US company Ashley Madison, which makes its money from running a contacts website for those wanting to have affairs….

CHARITY PAYS THE PRICE
Charities hoping to get a favourable rate for their fund-raising events from charitable Charles Saatchi’s epomymous art gallery venue off Sloane Square might want to….

FREE SEMINARS FOR 2011
The free seminar programme for the Charities and Associations Exhibition (CHASE – London, February 22/23) has just been announced….

SERIOUS HURT FOR THE OVER- 75s
The over-75s in the UK will be the hardest hit of any group by the cuts in government spending….

CHARITY IN CHINA
A Chinese millionaire has pledged all his wealth, currently estimated at more than £280 million to charity, and is making it his mission to encourage other rich Chinese to be….

BIG ONE
The 2010 Virgin London Marathon raised £50.6 million for charity….

SAVING GAME BIRDS FOR THE GUNS
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has revealed an increase in the illegal poisoning of endangered birds of prey by gamekeepers, working on behalf….

CHARITY AD BANNED
An advertisement claiming that donations to an animal welfare charity would help British troops in Afghanistan has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)….

ALL STARTED IN A CHARITY SHOP
Sir Norman Wisdom, the successful screen comic who died recently aged 95, got his uniform for his unique eternal schoolboy character from a charity shop in….

KING’S CROSS FOR PRINCE CHARLES
The Prince of Wales is to move a number of his charities, some of which are paying high rents in expensive and fashionable parts of London, to cheaper offices in….

RISE OF UNUSUAL EVENT VENUES
When event organisers choose a venue the need for it to be unusual is becoming more important….

UPCOMING EVENTS
o The Digital Fundraising Conference takes place on 18th November 2010 .at the QE11 o The Charities and Associations Exhibition 22/23rd February 2011….

SADDO AT MILTON KEYNES COUNCIL
An official from Milton Keynes council hid in a bush with a sound meter to try to prove that the PA system being used at a charity fundraising event was too loud….

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….

BOYCOTT THOSE NICE CANADIANS
Those who feel strongly against the slaughter of seal pups in Canada should stop buying Canadian seafood and should not visit Canada until the cull is banned….

MORE CHINESE CRUELTY
Around 10,000 bears are being kept in tiny cages on bear farms in China, to be milked for their bile, a highly prized ingredient in Chinese traditional medicine….

COURT IN THE LONG RUN
The organisers of the London Marathon are taking legal action against a Channel 4 Dispatches episode Tracing the Marathon’s Millions….

EXPLOITING THE POOR TO GET RICH?
Retailer Brighthouse, which makes its money selling aspirational products to credit-impaired households at an annual rate of interest of 29.9% over three years has….

FRAUD TRIAL
George Gray, 50, is to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates Court on June 14 charged over an alleged £253,000 fraud at the Foundation for Integrated Health….

MODEL CHARGED WITH FRAUD
Serbian model Katarina Rebraca, 37, has been arrested for allegedly embezzling £327,000 from her breast cancer charity and spending it on lavish parties, a Jeep….

EAT YOUR GREENS
Children who fail to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day are depriving themselves of essential vitamins and nutrients, and could be at increased risk….

ITS CHARITABLE ASDA BOYO
An Asda store in Cardiff started charging charity collectors £100 to operate in its store….

KILLING FOR PLEASURE AN ELECTION ISSUE?
The League Against Cruel Sports has been censured by the Charities Commission for “party political activity” in criticising the Conservatives for wanting to repeal the ban….

TRUST DISSOLVED
A trust set up by a former campaigning police officer, the Victims of Crime Trust, has been voluntarily dissolved after it failed to account for hundreds of thousands of….

WHO CARES WINS?
Women are 10% more productive when their work involves something they care about, wheras men showed no increase when working for a cause….

GOD BLESS CHARITY
A millionaire businessman is giving most of his accumulated wealth to charity, with a stipulation that half of it is invested in the Catholic Church….

PR FOR BANKERS
Those who feel that “charitable bankers” is a contradiction in terms might be cheered to note that some are giving a little of the money they’ve stolen from the poor to charity….

MORE DEBT COUNSELLING
Meanwhile, and nothing of course to do with the above item, a record number of people contacted the Consumer Credit Counselling Service last year….

CHEAPER IF CHERIE DOES IT?
The Cherie Blair Foundation For Women, a charity set up by Cherie Blair, has spent nearly as much on expensive female staff as it has on good causes for women….

IT CONFERENCE
A one day conference, Strategic Development through Technology for Charities and Associations takes place at the QEII conference centre, London on Wednesday….

NOT FOR THE PR
Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder, 47, is giving away his £3 million fortune to charity because it is not making him happy….

LIVE POETS SOCIETY
A charity poetry event to raise money for Haiti was organised by the present Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, at Westminster Central Hall, London in January….

DEMENTIA SHORT CHANGED
Dementia, suffered by more than 820,000 people costs the economy an estimated £23 billion a year and has a relatively modest £50 million spent on research, against….

VERY LARGE LEGAL BILL FOR RSPCA
After losing a court battle to keep a £2 million estate left to them in a will the RSPCA have been ordered to pay most of the £1.3 million legal costs….

PART TIME FARMING
People who want to grow their own fruit and vegetables but cannot afford to buy land are being offered the chance to become part time farmers by the National Trust….

NICE ONE, JOHN
Claims by the Housing Minister, John Healey, that repossession of houses was “the best thing” for some of those unable to keep up their mortgage payments have….

FREE SEMINARS
A range of free seminars for charities are being presented at the CHASE exhibition, Business Design Centre, London on February 23/24….

OFF THE RECORD, OF COURSE
The chief executive of Prince Harry’s Sentebale charity, Kedge Martin, has had some negative publicity in the gossip columns over remarks made to journalists….

RUN IT UP THE FLAGPOLE
A list of the 20 most used office clichés has been published by the Brooke horse charity, following a survey of 3000 people. These are, in descending order….

CHILDREN KILLED BY CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA
Thousands of children in Nigeria, some as young as two and a half years-old, are being accused of being witches by Christian pastors, and subsequently being abandoned….

ORPHANED BY POVERTY
Most children in orphanages in developing countries are there because their parents cannot afford to look after them, Save the Children has revealed….

DEATH AND SUNBEDS
Cancer Research UK have warned that prolonged sun bed use could be putting the health of 250,000 children at risk. Government estimates show that the habit kills….

BANKER STOLE FROM CHARITY
An investment banker has been given a two year suspended prison sentence after he admitted stealing £232,000 from the Dinam Charity, which had been set up by his….

TIME TO FIND A HUMANE WAY
The cruel and un-necessary branding of wild Exmoor ponies with a red hot iron has been in the news recently….

HOSPITAL REJECTS FREE CAKES FOR PATIENTS
Royston Hospital, part of the East and North Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust, have rejected a donation of home-made cakes for their elderly patients, on grounds of….

PREMIUM RATE SCAM GROWS
Everyone should be aware of the following scam, becoming more widespread as Christmas approaches….

KEEP DRINKING, PLEASE
The British Liver Trust (BLT) have warned that the “meal for two and bottle of wine” offers from supermarkets such as Sainsbury’s, Marks and Spencer and Waitrose….

ARE YOU A PRE-DIABETIC?
Charity Diabetes UK has warned that 7 million people in the UK are pre-diabetic, with the likelihood that they have high blood sugar, high blood pressure, are overweight….

NO PEACE
The Department for Transport (DFT) has rejected calls from a charity to limit the number of planes flying over national park areas and spoiling the peace and….

ANOTHER DOG-FIGHTING WOMAN
Another woman has been in Lincoln Magistrates Court for an involvement in dog-fighting….

ONE TO NOTE?
A combination of live music and social networking has been used by Cancer Research UK to raise awareness of skin cancer among 16-24 year olds. (LIVE UK)….

RUNS AND RUNS
The latest edition of the Voluntary Sector Legal Handbook runs to 1056 pages, the result of the “legislative incontinence” of the Labour Government, according to its….

GRAB GORDON
Gordon Brown wants to devote himself to charity work, if and when he leaves office.(GQ magazine/Daily Telegraph)….

TAKING BULLYING SERIOUSLY
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) has added its criticism to the Essex school where a dinner lady was sacked for telling the parents….

DOG FIGHTERS JAILED
The breaking-up of one of Britain’s biggest dog-fighting rings was accomplished by a major investigation by the RSPCA, resulting in the jailing of three men and a woman….

CHARLES WOOS THE OLD WAXWORKS
The Prince of Wales is to open a charity in China, twelve years after referring to its leaders, privately, as “appalling old waxworks” and despite a cordial relationship….

NOT DAGENHAM DUSTBINS
Drivers of Ford cars in the South East are most likely to throw litter from their vehicles….

CHARITY IT
The Charity IT Conference 2009 takes place on Wednesday, November 11 at the QEII Centre, Westminster, London….