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Charity Matters February/March 2013 ISSUE 47

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CELEBRITY PROBLEMS  In the wake of the Jimmy Savile affair more charities are finding that being linked to celebrities who fall from grace is definitely injurious…

MORE CELEBRITY  Breast cancer charity Crazy Hats had its fundraiser “An Evening With Paul Gascoigne” cut short on Thursday 31st January 2013 at the Park Inn…

FORCES CHARITY ROBBED BY FOUNDER  The founder of a charity ostensibly set up to help wounded members of the armed forces has been told by a judge he faces…

HESELTINE BAYS FOR BLOOD AT RSPCA The Charities Commission has warned the RSPCA that its prosecutions of hunts must be “cost-effective”…

CHASE ORGANISER WARNS SPEAKERS Michael Webb, the organiser of the upcoming CHASE charities and associations exhibition has warned all speakers…

STOP THE SALES PITCHES Have you ever been to a seminar or session at an exhibition or conference that was promoted as an educational opportunity but turned…

Marketing Matters Jan/Feb 2012 ISSUE 30

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PAYDAY LENDERS IN THE FRAME The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has warned payday lenders – legal loan sharks that charge up to 4,000 per cent APR – to clean….

ANYONE FOR GOLF? A group of multi-national TV manufacturers who ran a cartel to fix the price of cathode ray tubes across the world has been fined a record £1.19 billion by the EU….

BOYCOTT AMAZON A boycott of internet retailer Amazon for its tax avoidance has been called by the publishers of Ethical Consumer magazine….

MEN BEHAVING BADLY Actor Martin Clunes has become the second man to be dropped from the £50 million ad campaign for Churchill Insurance for motoring….

HEADING FOR A FALL? Have our train operating companies, and our Department of Transport got their long term marketing disastrously wrong?….

FOODIE TREAT Those looking for a useful business gift that lasts all year might consider copies of the Hardens independent restaurant guides….

SWEET LUXURY One luxurious new product for the ones who have everything, or who aspire to, is the sugar cane swizzle stick, crystallised South African cane sugar….

Charity Matters December 2012/January 2013 ISSUE 46

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CHARITY WORKSHOP TRAGEDY Fourteen disabled people were killed, and eight more badly burnt in a fire and explosion around 2.00pm on November 26 that….

JAPAN WASTES IT Billions of pounds in aid money meant to help the people of Japan rebuild their lives after its tsunami and nuclear disasters have been wasted by….

CHARITY DROP Donations to charities have slumped by 20% because of the recession. This is one of the findings of the annual survey by the Charities Aid….

SAVILE UPDATE As nearly 500 victims of abuse by disgraced BBC celebrity Sir Jimmy Savile have come forward a former BBC governor, Sir Roger Jones has told the….

CHARITY-FRIENDLY IN SUSSEX One friendly hotel we’ve found in the pretty town of Midhurst, West Sussex, in the centre of the South Downs National Park, is the….

RAISING IT WITH PORN The Fort Amherst Heritage Trust, which looks after the historic Amherst Fort in Chatham, Kent has outraged some of its management….

A CHARITY SHOP IDEA FOR 2013 Does any charity shop, or group, issue vouchers that can be purchased, given as a gift and can only be spent in the issuing charity….

Marketing Matters Nov/Dec 2012 ISSUE 29

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QUESTIONS OF TRUST A survey of more than 2,000 adults in Britain by consumer group Which? has indicated that politicians, journalists, bankers and estate agents….

SCREWING YOUR MARKET One large firm that seems hell-bent on gaining a damaging reputation for dishonesty in its UK market is Santander, the Spanish….

INSURANCE SCAM The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has referred a scam run by insurance companies to the Competition Commission….

SAINSBURY’S TURN THE SCREW Sainsbury’s have increased the time non-food suppliers have to wait for their money from one month to two and a half months….

MORE DODGY ETHICS Meanwhile, from the corrupt world of insurance it has been revealed by the Channel 4 Dispatches programme that Phil Hodkinson, a director….

YOU’VE WON! YOU’VE WON! “Prizes” which require substantial payments to claim, and are in fact thinly-disguised sales, have been banned by the European Court….

STILL NAFF, AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. One of the more pathetically obvious marketing ploys used in direct mail surfaces from time to time and ….

DING DONG MERRILY Those for whom the upside of Christmas is to enjoy some tasty festive food and drink will be interested in the results of the Tried and Tested survey….