Christmas

Save the Children has launched its "largest ever Christmas campaign" which includes a new seasonal fundraising event, Christmas Jumper Day, which takes place on 14 December.

Supermarket Waitrose is donating £1 million at Christmas, in addition to the £600,000 it would normally give to good causes over November and December.

A Christmas advertising campaign by Barclaycard and mobile music app Shazam will raise funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Save the Children ambassador Samantha Cameron has launched the charity’s Christmas partnership with shopping centre company Westfield by attending a book reading at Westfield London in Shepherd’s Bush

Crisis, the national charity for single homeless people, is again inviting companies across the UK to buy special e-cards to help it support vulnerable people during the festive season.

ITV has announced the six charities that will benefit from its 2012 Text Santa campaign, which promotes donating by mobile phone.

The Times is inviting charities to apply to benefit from its 2012 Christmas appeal. The newspaper will choose three charities.

ITV's Text Santa campaign returns in December 2012 with another series of major entertainment shows, all raising funds for charities working with disadvantaged people and promoting the ease of giving

Macmillan Cancer Support has opened an online greeting card shop enabling supporters and the general public to buy greeting cards for occasions throughout the year.

Online giving service The Big Give Christmas is to match up to £1 million in donations to charities via its site in its 2012 Christmas Challenge.