LIFE AND DEATH
Disgraced chief of the Royal Bank of Scotland Sir Fred Goodwin has been forced to step down as chairman of the Princes Trust, Prince Charles’ personal charity….

CHARITY HEAD COURTS CONTROVERSY
The head of the children’s charity Barnardos, Martin Narey has attracted passionate criticism for seeming to suggest that had Baby P not been murdered his ….

CHARITY PROMOTER SUED
A promoter of charity events has been ordered by a court to pay back £2.8 million to the sponsor.  (Audience)….

SAVED LIVES UP
Lifeboats were called out more times in 2008, and more people rescued from the water than in any of the 185 other years since the voluntary service started in 1824….

PICTURE THIS
The work of the art charity, the Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) is to go online, allowing everyone with access to the internet to enjoy all the oil paintings owned by….

PARADISE FOUND
A recent piece in the Sunday Telegraph featured people who had totally changed their lives and included a top charity executive who is now a shepherdess….

WHEN YOU’RE SMILING…
Happiness is contagious, according to social network researchers, and spreads through social groups like an emotional virus.  (The Psychologist)….

STAGS AND HENS
A “stag” fundraising luncheon promoted as such by The Lords’ Taverners disappointed some diners who noted the presence of women at the men-only events having told….

FREE KNOWLEDGE AT CHASE
More than 50 free 45-50 minute seminars are being offered at this year’s charities and associations exhibition, CHASE, being held at the Business Design Centre….

CHARITYFAIR 2009
A range of 92 one-hour and two-hour seminars priced from £20 – £60 per delegate are offered at Charityfair, which takes place at Central Hall Westminster Wednesday….

CHARITY LAW EVENT
The Charity Law Conference takes place on Thursday May 7 at the Royal Society of Medicine, London….

MEASURE OF EVIL
Those charities concerned with the victims of violence will be interested in a recent experiment which proved, once again, that a majority of people will inflict pain on….

JAIL FOR CHARITY DIRECTOR
The director of The Fair Project, a drugs charity educating youngsters about the dangers of drugs has been jailed for three years, for supplying drugs….

EVENTS HIT
Charities are having to cancel fundraising events due to a lack of corporate support in the current downturn.  (Event magazine)….

CHARITY LOSES
Historic Royal Palaces, the charity responsible for Hampton Court Palace has lost its fight to oppose the building of a four storey riverside hotel on a derelict site directly….

CHARITIES WIN
Following the withdrawal of support from the RSPCA and the PDSA the Kennel Club is to change the breed standards that the charities found cruel to some breeds. The….

A TOUCH OF DEL
Actor Sir David Jason, well-known as Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses and Inspector Frost in A Touch of Frost, but not so well-known as a keen helicopter pilot, has….

A TOUCH OF PROFLIGACY?
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust has drawn criticism for sending three delegates to a three-day medical conference in Melbourne at a cost of £3,000 each….

A TOUCH OF CRIMINAL WASTE?
According to the Conservatives a quarter of all the millions raised by the National Lottery goes to funding the 2012 Olympics, or the administrative costs of public….

HELP FOR SMALL CHARITIES
An organisation providing free help to small charities with problems has been set up for those with under £1 million donation income….

VIRTUE ONE REWARD
Some charities, and those donating money to them are benefiting from the temporary and miserly cut in VAT….

UPCOMING EVENTS
o Decentralisation in England – Opportunities for the Third Sector conference.
o Strategic Fundraising Management conference….

AND FINALLY …
It’s a bad idea to start a year with resolutions that are hard to stick to….

THE NEW PARIAHS
Banks and councils continue to earn their places as our society’s new pariahs, judging by recent articles in our newspapers….

COUNTRY RACISM?
A report by Business in the Community, one of the charities of which the Prince of Wales is president, has highlighted the fact that country areas of the UK, where….

CHUGGERS MUGGED
A survey of street fundraisers – “chuggers” – has found that people giving to them should consider giving directly to their chosen charity’s web-site instead….

BBC DITCH CRUFFS
The BBC have pulled out of televising dog-show Crufts in March 2009 over the “morally unjustifiable” breeding practices for some breeds, which they say amounts to cruelty….

MORE GAINS & LOSSES
The charity Oxfam has reported up to a 10% rise in sales through its shops, thought to be a result of more people trading down for Christmas in the current downturn….

TOO RISKY, THEN?
Police and council risk assessors have caused the cancellation of a charity raft race (Daily Telegraph)….

E- MARKETS
A one-day conference on e-marketing is being offered by Third Sector magazine….

FREE CHOLESTEROL ADVICE
The cholesterol charity Heart UK has opened a pilot drop-in centre in the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead for those concerned about their cholesterol levels, often a….

WHY PAY MORE?
Those readers spending money on food and drink at railway stations might like to know about the free BITE card….

BANKERS CHARITY
One bank that continues to have a serious ethical problem – though arguably they all do – is Northern Rock, the first financial failure to be bailed out with lots of our money….

BAD BET
According to charity Gamecare the number of people addicted to gambling has soared by 25% since the gambling laws were relaxed by the government….

MORE BELATED CHARITY MORALITY
The veterinary charity the PDSA has joined the RSPCA in belatedly pulling out of Kennel Club events, including Crufts, over the “unacceptable” breeding….

CHARITY SHOP GAINS AND LOSSES
A bundle of old Christmas cards signed by the late Queen Mother has been found in a bag of donations made to a charity shop in Edinburgh. The 19 cards were dated….

CHARITY AND CSR
Organisations in the catering and hotel sector are being encouraged to be more charitable to discharge their corporate social responsibility (CSR)….

DON’T FORGET
Only seven percent of the population leave money to charity in their wills, amounting to £1.8 billion a year….

ARE YOU MISSING OUT?
Have you check for opportunities of support and/or finance available from your local groups such as Round Table, Lions, Rotary and Ladies Circle? ….

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….