Events

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