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Charity Matters October/November 2012 ISSUE 45

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NOW THEN, NOW THEN Charity fundraiser Sir Jimmy Savile, who died last year and was given a lavish funeral, was also a paedophile who used his celebrity status….

SAVE THE (UK) CHILDREN Some donors to the Save the Children charity have withdrawn their financial support following the charity’s upcoming campaign to help….

SAVE THE SUICIDAL Around 3,000 middle-aged men kill themselves every year, with men in their 30’s, 40’s and 50’s from disadvantaged backgrounds being at ten times….

A LESSON The former £41,000 a year campaign director for the League Against Cruel Sports, Steven Taylor, has been jailed for eight months for defrauding the charity of….

BADGER-KILLING COMING A cull of Britain’s badgers, based on the claim by farmers that it will halt the spread of TB in cattle, is being piloted in west Gloucestershire and….

DUCK THE ISSUE Meanwhile the cruelty suffered by farm-reared ducks deprived of any access to water, around two-thirds of them currently, is also giving the RSPCA….

EAT UP One interesting charity idea using the web is Casserole, which puts those who can’t easily cook for themselves in touch with those prepared to cook a little more….

CHARITY VENUE IN WATERLOO The Waterloo Conference Centre, Sandall Street, London, SE1 8UJ, is contained within the Unoin Jack Club, a service charity….

SAFE INVESTMENT? An interactive webcast focussing on safe charity investment is taking place live at 3.00pm on Wednesday, October 18th and presented by Third….

Marketing Matters Sep/Oct 2012 ISSUE 28

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THE POWER OF BAD PR
Negative press can be a power for good, it seems. Olympic sponsors Visa, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, EDF, Omega, GE, Adidas, BMW, Atos and P&G were all stung by….

A FOUL FROM THE PREMIER LEAGUE
Those who feel strongly that monopolies are bad for customers, and bad for the image of marketing – and witness the shameful licensed exploitation of millions of Olympic….

ANOTHER BLOW FOR MONOPOLY
Meanwhile readers might want to shed a tear or two for the most unlucky Quatari government, which recently paid £900 million for a 20% stake in BAA, the owners….

PROFIT FROM MISERY BOAST FROM GLENCORE
One character vying with bankers Fred Goodwin and Bob Diamond for the title of most hated in the business sector is the lesser known Christopher Mahoney of very….

WHAT A LIBERTY, JIMMY!
Those Scottish readers living in Scotland and enjoying the bite, burn and budget price of cheap supermarket alcohols will be shocked to learn that their caring government….

Charity Matters August/September 2012 ISSUE 44

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TIME FOR A CHARITY CLEAN UP
Charity chuggers employed by Tag Campaigns have been the subject of an undercover investigation by the Sunday Telegraph, following a tip-of from a whistleblower….

LEARNED BEHAVIOUR
Bullying has been taking centre stage in the media recently.According to education standards watchdog, Ofsted, nearly half of all pupils have suffered some form….

DO THEY CARE?
The government is backtracking on plans to cap the amount the elderly have to pay for their own care. Experts have recommended £25,000 but the figure ministers….

BLACKBERRY OR CRACKBERRY?
Charity Anxiety UK has warned that insomnia is hitting increasing numbers of us after getting our fix of social networking sites, dubbed “electronic cocaine”….

CHARITY FESTIVAL FAILS
A three-day music festival held in Fife in May was targeted to raise more than £100,000 for charities Help For Heroes and Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association….

GLUTEN-FREE
The Coeliac Society has revealed that 1 in 100 people in the UK, or more than 500,000, have coeliac disease. This is an autoimmune condition caused by intolerance to….

WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
The National Trust have released a free mobile phone app called Soho Stories and aimed at those who like strolling through the rural landscapes of London WC2….

Marketing Matters Jul/Aug 2012 ISSUE 27

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IN THE POCKETS
The clear winners of our upcoming Olympic Games are the corporate sponsors, many inappropriate for the stated mission of the event, which is to promote world peace….

DOWN WITH BANKS
Bankers continue to slide down the popularity pole with the revelations that Barclays massaged the Libor interest rate, at which banks lend to each other, in their….

NO PROTECTION
Fraud, using telemarketing has flourished as the number of marketing calls and text calls has climbed to more than16 million a day, according to a recent Panorama….

CORRUPTION AT SAINSBURY’S
A potato buyer at Sainsbury’s has been jailed for four years for taking £2.5 million in bribes from a potato supply firm. John Maylam admitted enjoying lavish hospitality….

SILVER LINING
 The current recession, caused by bankers, is a silver-lined cloud for German discount stores Lidl and Aldi as more middle-class Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose….

PASS IT AROUND
Readers are reminded that an ever-popular scam is still being pumped out to anybody selling anything. This works on the basis of asking the victim to bank a cheque….

PARADISE ABOVE LONDON BRIDGE
One new 2013 possibility for some top hospitality in the London Bridge area is the planned Shangri-La Hotel at the 1016 – foot (310 metres) 70-storey Shard building….

ILL-ADVISED?
Leaflets featuring images of people who had wet themselves were used to promote a summer sale for store group Harvey Nichols, using the strap line “Try to contain…. 

Charity Matters June/July 2012 ISSUE 43

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MORE FRANKLY THINKING
The huge rise in the cost of postage stamps, now up to 50 pence for second class letters, has left your editor wondering if there would be a business opportunity in….

ROYAL ALBERT HALL CLEANS UP ITS ACT
The management of the Royal Albert Hall has belatedly banned trustees from selling their tickets to touts after it was revealed by the Times newspaper that two of its….

SIGH OF RELIEF
News that the government has dropped plans to cap tax relief on donations to charity at £50,000 from next April has been welcomed in the sector.  Nearly 50% of the sector’s….

SICK COCKFIGHTING IN CHESHIRE
A farmer in Wansford, Cheshire has been banned from keeping animals for life after the RSPCA found 120 cockerels on his smallholding with evidence that they were….

CRISIS AT RSPCA
Meanwhile the RSPCA has said its finances are at breaking point following a slump in money left in wills and a rise in the number of cruelty cases taken to court….

TRUSTEE STOLE FROM MINERS’ CARE HOME
A four-year jail sentence was handed down at Birmingham Crown Court to Neil Greatrex, 61, who as trustee of the Nottingham branch of the Union of….

VENUES FOR CHARITIES
Those charity event organisers who like to support charity-owned venues and those with charitable objectives might like to know about one in Leeds and one in….

NEW SHOW FOR CHARITY EVENTS
A new exhibition for not-for-profit organisations, NFP Events, takes place at the Business Design Centre, Islington on Tuesday September 25….