Online auction company QXL.com has auctioned a miniature sketch by artist RB Kitaj for charity. The work, After Rembrandt, has been confirmed by Guinness World Records as the world's most valuable Post-It.
Read UK Fundraising's coverage of online charity auctions.
Now that Adam and Rachel have finally got married in ITV's Cold Feet series, there are two wedding outfits going spare. These were cannily snapped up for an online charity auction at ebay.co.uk.
Read UK Fundraising's coverage of online charity auctions.
Eurohousing is a new Web-based resource for housing and community regeneration organisations which contains up to date information on European policies, funding opportunities, and key legislation.
The dot com slump and closures of technical companies is good news for some US charities. Those collecting donated goods such as office furniture and PCs have seen an upsurge in donations over the past year.
Read Startup Leftovers Piling Up by Joanna Glasner at Wired News.
For the third year running British Telecom is encouraging its customers to donate their Friends and Family scheme discounts to charity during December.
Oxfam has appointed a new Chair of Trustees, Rosemary Thorp, who will take over from Joel Joffe in 2002. Ms Thorp, an Oxfam GB trustee since 1989, is an author on Latin American development issue.
Six Dutch students have compared fundraising in the UK and the Netherlands for their graduation assignment.
Six Leisure Management students at the Netherlands Institute for Tourism and Transport Studies in Breda, Holland, have completed a research project comparing fundraising in the UK and in Holland.
What is charity? Foundations of Charity from Hart Publishing brings together scholars from the fields of charity law, public law, and trusts law, and internationally recognised writers on social policy and legal philosophy who presented papers at a conference at King's College, London, in 1998.
