CHARITY FINALLY CALLS TIME ON MORALITY
The RSPCA has finally decided that breeding animals for their looks, rather than their health or welfare is cruel and morally unjustifiable, and has accordingly withdrawn….

MONEY TALKS?
A number of charities that have criticised decisions made by the NHS watchdog the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) to deny patients access to….

WANT IT NOW
The charity Crisis Counselling for Alleged Shoplifters has blamed the rise in theft from shops by young girls on our “affluent, too much too soon” society….

SEX AND THE CHURCH?
A vicar has refused a donation because the charity golf and dinner event raising the money features “bunny girls” in high heels, stockings and bunny ears and tails….

PERSONAL NETWORKING
A new internet dating site has been launched for those working in the non-profit sector and anyone else “interested in making the world a better place”….

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….

GREY WORKFORCE GROWS
Charity Age Concern is taking a test case to the European Court of Justice this month that would, if they are successful, allow workers to demand the right to continue in….

PRIME THINKING FOR YOU
Meanwhile in support of charity Kith and Kids a new fundraising project Prime Thinkers offers organisations a group of 8-10 mostly retired or semi-retired business….

UNFAIR DISMISSAL AT SCOPE
Disability charity Scope has admitted to a tribunal that it unfairly and wrongly dismissed the head teacher at its special residential school in Nottingham last April. (Private….

E-BAY IMPROVING?
Following pressure from the events industry and government bodies e-Bay internet auctioneers have agreed to ban the re-sale of tickets to free music events (Live UK)….

CREDITY CRUNCH BITES INTO GIVING
A charity summer ball staged by property speculator Grant Bovey and his wife TV presenter Anthea Turner was cancelled in April because Bovey felt his guests….

CHARITY GIGS
Around 200,000 people attended a free charity concert in Kiev, the Ukraine on June 14 at which Sir Paul McCartney performed. Millions more watched the concert on giant….

BOOM BOOM
In ten years time, baby boomers – those aged 44 to 61 and therefore born between 1946 and 1964 – will have 90% of the UK’s disposable income, making them a….

SAD SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Two debt charities have warned that the number of people seeking their help with rising debts has risen significantly.

PROFIT BEFORE RESPONSIBILITY AT TESCO?
The NSPCC has criticised retailer Tesco for selling padded plunge bras for seven to eight year old girls….

CHARITY SUE GOOGLE
US internet search engine Google has been accused of having “warped value system” and stifling freedom of speech after it refused to carry an advertisement for….

PROFITABLE KILLING
The RSPCA has attacked the culling of grey squirrels to encourage the breeding of the endangered red as “ethically dubious” and unlikely to be effective….

BBC BENT?
Further criticism is being heaped on the BBC for receiving money for sponsorship for such events as Children in Need….

REWARDED HONESTY
A charity shop assistant in California found £15,000 in cash in some clothing that had been donated, and returned it to the donors. (Daily Telegraph)….

MORE GRUBBING AT NORTHERN ROCK
More questions arise about the grubby ethics of Northern Rock, the failed bank bailed out by our government with billions of our pounds….

ONE WITH TEETH
Charities will be studying the powerful new anti-discrimination bill before parliament….

ADVERTISE ON BBC
The BBC has been criticised over the commercial packages it offers firms for sponsorship of such programmes as Children in Need….

FEE PAYING SCHOOLS TO LEARN CHARITY
Fee paying schools registered as charities simply to get the tax benefits will lose their profitable charitable status if they don’t make a contribution to the poor in their local….

NOT BEFORE TIME
Charity organisation Business and Education in London South (BELS) is offering 600 free two hour workshops in personal finance to young adults….

FREE DIRECTORY ENQUIRIES
A new free directory enquiry service which requires callers to listen to around 20 seconds of advertising before getting their number has been launched….

COUNCILS GRAB £883 MILLION
Around £883 million of National Lottery money – supposed to go to the most needy charities as well as arts, sports and heritage projects – is being given to councils to…

THE ART OF TRUST AT THE TATE
The probity of trustees has come under the spotlight with revelations that the Tate Gallery acquired 73 works of art from 20 of its own trustees between 1955 and 2005…

SPONSOR SUES FOR MONEY BACK
A court decision on a £2 million lawsuit against a promoter of charity concerts for disadvantaged children is expected in the next few weeks. (Audience)….

TOUTS TARGET CHARITY EVENTS
Auction website eBay has been urged by a Government report on ticket touting to stop allowing touts to make millions out of charity events….

NEW ETHICAL FUNDS INDEX
A new searchable database of ethical funds has been launched by ethical investment analysts Eiris. (Third Sector)….

GIVE, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE
The joy of giving has been given a scientific basis by neurologists who have discovered that making a charitable donation heightened activity in the midbrains of 20….

UK PLC SHAMEFUL
The actual cash figure given to charity by the top 500 UK companies is £400 million, or 0.236% of their profits of £169 billion….

ARE YOU EATING ETHICALLY?
Those eating at chain restaurants and wanting to take into account ethical criteria will be interested in the league table of 26 restaurant chains published by Ethical….

DON’T BE MISLEAD
The charity Sense About Science has attacked celebrities such as fashion designer Stella McCartney and actress Gwyneth Paltrow for making statements that could….

FREE SEMINARS FOR CHARITIES
A total of 56 free seminars aimed at charities and associations are offered at this year’s Charities and Associations Exhibition, CHASE, held at the Business Design Centre….

LOW COST SUBSCRIPTION
Charity trustees are being offered a low cost subscription to Governance magazine, provided applications are received by January 31….

POVERTY FOR MORE
The continuing fall in the real value of the basic state pension, which is not currently linked to earnings, and the lack of any help for pensioners in the budget is….

NOT TO BE SNORTED AT?
High flying sportsmen in their 20’s are too concerned with blowing money, or snorting it, to be much use as givers to charities….

MORE ON CHARITY SHOPS WASTE
The over-charging of charity shops by councils to collect and then dispose of their waste costs each shop around £400 per annum….

BAD PRESS FOR ONE CHARITY
Age Concern reportedly spent £16.4 million on Hayday, its membership organisation for the over 50’s, to recruit 44,000 members against a target of 796,000….

SUPPORTIVE PRESS FOR OTHERS
Meanwhile Private Eye also reported on the arguably bad decision of a judge who ruled the German car giant BMW could divert a 2,000 year old public bridleway to develop….

MORE FOR THE BIRDS
The Royal Society of the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has bought Wallasea Island, eight miles north of Southend, to develop as a 1,800 acre wetland sanctuary for wild….

SUPPORT ALL THE MR FAYEDS, OR A CHARITY
Those wanting to make donations to charity by buying charity Christmas cards should avoid purchasing them from Harrods, Boots, Marks and Spencer, Next or Cards….

GAMBLING DEGENERANCY INCREASES
The number of gambling addicts in the UK is rising sharply, according to charity support groups and others involved in monitoring the sector….

SOME EQUALITY HERE
The charity sector is one that discriminates least against women. This is a conclusion that might be drawn from research by the Chartered Management Institute and….

MODEL IMAGE FOR CHARITIES?
The wisdom of charities in their choice of celebrities for promoting their causes continues to be questioned in the press….

WATCH THOSE FAKES
A fake counsellor log-sheet in a 200,000 mailing from the NSPCC’s ChildLine has got the charity into trouble with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)….

DOORSTEP COLLECTIONS UNDERMINED
Trust in charity doorstep collections of clothes is being undermined by bogus charity collectors and commercial collectors….

THE COUNCIL WASTE CON
Local authorities are ripping off charities by having their waste falsely classified as “commercial” and then charging them hundreds of millions of pounds to have it….

A GOOD EXAMPLE?
Nearly 60 per cent of TV viewers have claimed they now trust the BBC less than they used to, according to an opinion poll by The Guardian….

SLEEP WELL, PLANT A TREE
A charity has warned that tree-planting to offset carbon – a popular choice for those not wishing to change their ways and wanting to buy their way out – is like drinking water….