Events

This is the expected date, as of mid-November 2007. Sandy Adirondack reports: "professional fundraisers will have to state the amount of remuneration they are receiving in connection with an appeal, and how the remuneration is decided. If that amount is not known at the time of the appeal, they will have to give as accurate an estimate as possible...

Selection of the HBOS Charity of the Year for 2008.

Since its inception in 2003, the HBOS Charity of the Year programme, the Million £ Challenge, has raised over £11 million for charities including Macmillan Cancer Support, Help the Hospices, NSPCC/Children 1st and ICAN.

The awards recognise people who are campaigning to change their world, whether locally or nationally.

Applications close on 14 March 2008.

www.sheilamckechnie.org.uk

Early booking discount of £50 expires for Third Sector's annual communications and fundraising conference. The speaker line-up is now complete: recent additions include Victoria Macdonald, social affairs correspondent for Channel 4 News and Richard Miller, who is executive director of Actionaid.

www.thirdsectorconference.com

Since 1976, the Arts & Business survey has provided an annual indicator for the state of private investment in the cultural sector. This year A&B will release a new State of the Marketplace Report which analyses emerging trends in cultural investment, income generation and business drivers.

By invitation only.

www.aandb.org.uk