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Yorkshire Building Society chooses RNLI as charity of the year 2012
The Yorkshire Building Society, the UK’s second largest building society, has chosen the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) as its charity of the year for 2012.
The fundraising has already got underway, with building society staff getting involved on the RNLI's SOS Day, the charity's biggest fundraising event of the year. At the society’s headquarters in Bradford, senior managers including new chief executive Chris Pilling spent the day trapped in a lifeboat, having buckets of water thrown at them by staff, and were only let ‘ashore’ after they had phoned a string of contacts in the financial services to raise money for the charity.
In addition, staff at 178 branches of the Yorkshire Building Society around the UK were wearing Spots Or Stripes for the day. Many received visits from RNLI volunteer crew to help with the fundraising.
The Yorkshire Building Society fundraising campaign is called 'Come Rain Or Shine', to reflect the fact that RNLI volunteers head out to sea to rescue people whatever the weather.
The Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation will also make a contribution to the total raised.
The RNLI was chosen as the charity of the year through a vote of the society's members. Last year, Yorkshire Building Society staff raised £175,000 for the 2011 Charity of the Year, Alzheimer’s Society.
Iona Community chooses thankQ
Glasgow-based The Iona Community has chosen thankQ for its CRM to help it manage its membership data and communications.
The Community began looking for a new CRM solution in April 2011. It has Members, Associate Members, Friends and Volunteers, so needed a system that could handle these various relationships and their different activities, and the fact that often people had multiple roles.
The Christian charity also holds regular events and meetings, both in the UK and further afield, produces a broad range of resources and runs a retail operation.
It wanted to ensure that its new CRM integrated with its website, so that the charity could provide a facility for members to update their details, book and pay for events, and to manage their membership online.
Robert Swinfen, Support services Manager at The Iona Community said: "Our membership is diverse and complex and our primary concerns were whether we could get the functionality we needed at a price we could afford. thankQ is based on commonly used office systems, so it looks and feels familiar, but the functionality is seriously impressive. This gave us the reassurance we needed, and at the right price."
Entries open for National Lottery Awards 2012
If you have received National Lottery funding for a project in the past year you can enter it for the National Lottery Awards, the annual celebration of the impact that Lottery funding is having on transforming communities.
It is a chance to secure national coverage for your project and the people involved. The entrants that make it to the finals will receive national recognition at an event, broadcast on BBC One, later this year. They will also have a chance to win a £2,000 cash prize.
The National Lottery Awards have seven categories, each reflecting an area of Lottery funding: Arts, Education, Environment, Health, Heritage, Sport and Voluntary/Charity.
Since the National Lottery began in 1994, over £27 billion has been invested in Good Causes across the UK. Each week ticket sales generate £30 million for good causes.
Entries must be received by 17.00 on 12 March 2012.
www.nationallotteryawards.org.uk
Photo: The National Lottery's 2012 hot air balloon takes off in Cardiff Castle. The hot air balloon is touring the UK to thank Lottery players for their contribution to London 2012.
Belling choses Anthony Nolan as its centenary year charity
Kitchen manufacturer Belling, which celebrates its centenary this year, has chosen Anthony Nolan as its charity of the year. The company aims to raise at least £10,000 for the charity.
Anthony Nolan was selected after a staff and public vote against five other national charities - Barnardo’s, Shelter, Help for Heroes, Marie Cure Cancer Care and Trussell Trust Foodbanks. Anthony Nolan received almost 3,000 votes during the three-week long poll.
The manufacturer aims to raise the £10,000 target from staff fundraising and a contribution from sales of a product range created especially for its 100th year.
Starbucks fund opens for Dublin and Belfast applications
The Starbucks Youth Action funding programme, which will support projects in Dublin and Belfast, is seeking applications for 2012.
The programme aims to inspire and empower young people from Dublin and Belfast and a number of UK cities to make a difference in their communities through seed funding and volunteer work from Starbucks staff. The programme also offers training to young people on managing a budget, working with volunteers and project management.
The programme offers funding of up to €2000 to groups that work with people aged 16-24 who have a good idea for a project that will have an impact on young people and the local community.
In 2011 Starbucks awarded more than 100 grants totalling $2.6 million to organisations around the world to inspire and support youth action in their local markets.
Starbucks' original goal was to engage 50,000 young people to innovate and create action in their communities by 2015 and this target was achieved some years ago.
Groups can find application details on the Irish Youth Foundation’s website. Completed applications should be sent to StarbucksYouthAction@iyf.ie. The closing date is 5 March 2012.
Photo: Azizul Hadi on flickr.com
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