Archive - May 2003 - News Items

Royal Mail will this week reduce the price tariffs for its Mailsort products, a move that will save the businesses, including charities, up to £17 million a year.

Sixty per cent of the UK's largest charities have no written ethical or socially responsible investment policy according to a new report.

The report, "Do UK Charities Invest Responsibly?", explores the investment policies and practices of the UK voluntary sector and in particular, the extent to which its funds are invested in a socially

The Prince's Trust is for the first time offering VIP Packages to the Party in the Park as prizes in its online raffle.

Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has launched a new account which combines monthly income with growth potential and capital protection.

The account is designed to offer charities the security of a bank deposit account, together with an attractive income and also the growth potential of the stock market.

The first anti-spam 'Dunk the Junk Day' takes place on 22 May 2003 and aims to raise public awareness of spam or unsolicited commercial e-mail.

The campaign day is being supported by Web portal Yahoo! It will include an awards event at which the UK's worst spammers will be named and shamed.

Shelter today starts asking people to go
green and get recycling by donating used office products to their local

Leading City companies played in the 31st annual S.P.A.R.K.S. rugby tournament
at Richmond this weekend sponsored by Mako.

Mako Global ("Mako"), a leading European derivatives trading house, was the

James Dowling has joined the Kambia Hospital Appeal in Cheltenham.

James' fundraising career began after university as a volunteer in the development departments of the National Portrait Gallery and the National Art Collections Fund. He then worked for English National Opera, the Barbican Centre, before moving to the London Symphony Orchestra as Development Manager.

Macmillan Cancer Relief has launched its first ever television fundraising campaign to secure new donors and increase the awareness and understanding of Macmillan's work.

Oxfam's latest advertising campaign for their Make Trade Fair petition is explicitly saying they don't want donations.

Instead, they are asking for SMS messages to add to their petition. The campaign is appearing online and in the national press. Oxfam hopes to generate a further 500,000 signatures to its Big Noise petition.