Five small charities with annual incomes of below £1 million have won this year's Guardian Charity Awards.
The winners were Theodora Children's Trust, The Shilbottle Skills Centre, Friends of the Earth Scotland, No Panic, and Ace of Clubs. Each received a payment of £5,000 and they will also be given a free Web site designed by smartchange.org.
Entries are being sought for the 12th Annual Scottish Fundraising Awards.
The awards are made by the Institute of Fundraising Scotland at their annual conference, which will be held on 28 and 29 October 2003 at the Hilton Dunblane Hydro at Dunblane, Perthshire.
The Phone Room Ltd., the Oxford-based telephone fundraising and marketing agency for the charity sector, has won one of the two top awards for European Call Centre of the Year at the European Call Centre Awards held at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole.
Three hundred and fifty call centres across Europe competed for the Awards, run by Call Centre Focus magazine.
Recycle-IT!, based in Luton, is the winner of the 2003 Sieff Award which recognises organisations or individuals that have successfully collaborated with the corporate sector to benefit the community.
The innovative community enterprise, which has provided good causes with over 30,000 recycled computer systems, was honoured at an awards ceremony today.
The National Trust's campaign for Tyntesfield has won the Fundraising Campaign of the Year Award at The UK Charity Awards.
The National Trust's campaign elicited support from government bodies such as National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Heritage Lottery Fund and the public to raise a remarkable £24m in just 8 weeks to save the Victorian country estate of Tyntesfield near Bristol.
Dr Christie Peacock, Chief Executive of NGO FARM-Africa was awarded Charity Principal of the Year at the 2003 UK Charity Awards held in London last night.
The managing director of Blackbaud's European operation is one of 31 people from around the world awarded the ePhilanthropy Master Trainer (ePMT) designation by the ePhilanthropy Foundation.
Does your organisation's Web site demonstrate best practice in design for visually impaired people? If so it could win an award from the National Library for the Blind.
