Awards

The sponsors of the Charities' Annual Reports and Accounts Awards are taking

Lesley James, Vice Chair of I CAN, the charity which helps children with speech and language difficulties, has become a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2003 New Year Honours.

Charity Just Help has won the BT eBusiness Innovation Award for its use of the Web to support its work with Kosovan refugees.

The appeal was set up over the 1999 Easter weekend. The Web site and e-mail news list helped the charity communicate wth 400 people in five countries to raise funds and recruit volunteers.

Medecins Sans Frontieres has won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, the first humanitarian agency to win the prize since UNICEF in 1981. Read the BBC's coverage.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office Web site scooped the award for Best Government/Charity site from the online magazine New Media Age.

It is the most visited of all UK government sites, providing "the equivalent of 60,000 hours of customer service based on a time-cost of 4,000 person hours," according to The Guardian Online. The site is run by two and a half staff.

UK Fundraising has earned a rating of two out of five stars ("recommended") at the Britannica Internet guide. This might not sound impressive, but it's the (equal) highest ranking for any fundraising-related site.

Simply getting included and reviewed for the site is something of an achievement. Three stars seems to be the preserve of the major media and established publishers' sites.

Win £2,000 for your charity's Annual Report and Accounts. But don't get disqualified at the first stage for technical failure like nearly half of last year's entrants.

The two winners of this year's bursaries to attend the 18th International Fund Raising Workshop have been announced.

The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation invites nominations for the 1999 Hilton Humanitarian Prize. They are seeking an organisation that has made extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering anywhere in the world.

Innovative and successful Scottish fundraisers were honoured on 8th October at the Scottish Fundraising Awards ceremony in Glasgow. Charities large and small were presented with awards and commendations for fundraising campaigns launched over the past year. UK Fundraising's Howard Lake was at the Awards. Read his report.