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Archive - Feb 2009

February 28th

A single child dies…

Neatly encapsulating a fundraiser’s hardest dilemma: how are we to keep attention and giving focussed on a thousand deaths, when one will silence the Commons?

NSPCC receives £67,756 from The Recycling Factory

Children's charity the NSPCC has received a donation for £67,756.77 from The Recycling Factory (TRF).

February 27th

Social media suggestion for PR agencies

UK Fundraising thrives on receiving timely, relevant, practical and interesting news releases about fundraising. We get lots each day and try to use as many of the good ones as we can.

Bright One to provide social media advice to TimeBank's Junction49

Junction49

Bright One, the volunteer-run communications agency for charities, social enterprises and other not-for-profits, is to work with Junction49, a TimeBank project that enables young people to define and

Fundraising visit scheme applications close on 13 March

Shaking hands - photo: Aidan Jones on Flickr

The next round of Only Connect, the scheme which lets voluntary and community organisations visit another organisation to learn about their fundraising and income generation experiences, closes on Fri

Plenary speakers announced for National Fundraising Convention

Institute of Fundraising National Convention

John Bird MBE, Tim Burcham, and George Marshall are to be the plenary speakers at this year's National Convention in July in London.

Occam to overhaul RNIB's 4-million-supporter database

The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has appointed marketing management software company Occam to help it transform the way its supporter data is cleaned, analysed and used for communic

February 26th

Drunks lead university authorities to withdraw support for rag

Drunken and unruly students have led the senior management of a Galway university to withdraw their support for the annual charity rag week.

Numbers double for second nfptweetup

The second nfptweetup was held in London last night, attracting over 60 charity sector staff and others interested in how Twitter can be used by charities.

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