Mike Lake, Director General of Help the Aged, has been appointed as a Trustee of the recently launched Air Ambulance Foundation.
Lake's charity interests include the interface between governance and management, the growing commercial nature of the sector and the role of charities in society.
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations has called for the protection of lottery funding for good causes from diversion to the British Olympics.
"The National Lottery's existing commitment to the good causes must be honored and new lottery games must not be allowed to undermine income to the existing good causes", said NCVO Chief Executive,
Stuart Etherington.
Sussex, Kent and Berkshire businesses have won awards at the South East Business in the Community Awards for Excellence, recognising best practice in corporate social responsibility programmes.
The NSPCC is extending its private site version of face to face fundraising at selected shopping centres.
The children's charity says its version of face-to-face fundraising and campaigning is "groundbreaking." It is about to embark on full roll-out following a successful second stage of testing activity.
Adding VAT to the cost of stamps will increase the red-tape burden for hundreds of small businesses, charities and individuals across the UK, according to accountants Dean Statham.
Seventeen IT volunteering projects are currently being negotiated as a result of the first "ITmatchmaker" event.
IT 4 Communities and Business Community Connections have hosted their first ITmatchmaker event for London-based charities in need of IT expertise and local IT professionals willing to provide their skills for a good cause.
Foresters Big Toddle for Barnardo's was launched today.
The Foresters Big Toddle For Barnardo's involves over 100,000 children aged 0 to five years walking half a mile to raise
money for other children in the UK. The children will 'toddle' all over the
country through 23 organised toddles taking place in June.
A survey for the National Society for Epilepsy has found that more than 25% of the population would donate to charity if they had an additional £5 of spare cash every month.
However, nearly double that number would save
the additional money, while one in five would spend it on their own entertainment.
