Third Sector

Telecoms company Talktalk is offering £60,000-worth of technology grants to UK charities and community groups.

The Institute of Fundraising hopes to launch a campaign for cost-effective text donations, headed by its departing chair Joe Saxton.

Marie Curie Cancer Care and When You Wish Upon a Star, the charity that grants wishes to children with terminal illnesses, have teamed up with a UK website to create two online tribute pages.

Save the Children will expand the range of its charity shops next week, when it launches a combined coffee bar and bookshop in Penrith in Cumbria.

Save the Children will expand the range of its charity shops next week, when it launches a combined coffee bar and bookshop in Penrith in Cumbria.

The British Red Cross has announced a £12m revamp of its retail arm in a bid to double the annual profits from its shops to £8m a year.

Centrepoint, the youth homelessness charity, is appealing to fashion-conscious supporters to buy a new T-shirt from high street retailer H&M to raise funds for its work.

Fundraisers cannot agree on a definition of stewardship, according to the interim results of an online survey.

This year's Institute of Fundraising National Convention will include, for the first time, a session on personal development.

Charities should use humour and soft language in their efforts to persuade donors to leave legacies, according to new research by marketing agency TDA.

International development NGOs are considering a proposal from Guardian Films, the film unit of The Guardian and The Observer, that they could help fund it to make films about issues excluded from the mainstream news agenda, such as the crises in Somalia and Darfur.

Government-funded volunteering charity v is to donate £288,000 to a project to allow young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to volunteer abroad.

The Institute of Fundraising is advising charities not to boycott Freepost services over revelations that they are being charged for postage even when donors use stamps.

A ChangeUp consortium has turned down funding from Capacitybuilders because it says the agency has become too directive and bureaucratic.

Stephen Dunmore has been appointed chair of the BBC's charity appeals advisory committee.

Financially troubled charity Missing People has had its revival underpinned by a £310,000 government grant.

Charities could miss out on up to £1m because of poor ticket sales at this year's Glastonbury Festival.

An internet company that allows people to raise funds for charity while they search online is expanding.

The European Fundraising Association is launching a seminar programme designed to share European fundraising expertise with third sector organisations throughout the world.

Charities and social enterprises raising money for community projects do not make enough use of share and bond issues, according to a social enterprise consultancy.