Integrated media agency Agency Republic has created Social Republic, a new unit which will provide services specifically to charities and organisations involved in social change.
Social Republic will be run by Peter Askew, the co-founder of Agency Republic. It will offer advertising, direct marketing and digital skills to create campaigns for a range of charity and non-profit clients.
The BBC is repeating the Working in the Community series again from 3rd - 14th November on BBC2 from 5am - 6am.
BBC Learning Zone, BBC TWO's overnight record and play education service, will rescreen its series of programmes about working in the community next month. It was last repeated in August 2003.
Text messaging software specialists and managed service providers Textbox
Limited are extending their current sponsorship deal with Smstextgiving
Limited, the not-for-profit text-based fundraising service.
Textbox, who provide the platform used by Smstextgiving for its charity
Disability charity Scope has been testing combining texting with street and doorstep fundraising.
Scope worked with its professional fundraising agency Fruitful Fundraising and its technology partner SMStextgiving to test giving people an option of giving or campaigning through texting.
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) is calling for the
12% tax on every National Lottery ticket worth £549 million per year to be
split between good causes and lottery players instead of going to the
MySociety.org is a new charitable project from the people behind FaxYourMP.com and VoxPolitics; they are looking for innovative internet projects which have strong, real world benefits, and which do so at very low cost per person served.
A survey for Heart of the City finds that 97% of large companies (those with over 250 employees) make donations to charities, good causes or community projects.
Mal Treharne is the new Managing Director at the Rural Regeneration Unit (RRU), the offshoot of the Countryside Alliance that is dedicated to finding practical solutions to challenges facing rural economies and society.
He will take up the post at the RRU's Strategic IT Centre at Hagley in the West Midlands on 1 November 2003.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ('ICAEW') has joined forces with The Giving Campaign to urge chartered accountants to advise their clients on tax-effective ways of giving to charity.
