The Financial Times 2011-2012 Seasonal Appeal has raised £3.3 million for international development charity Sightsavers, the most that the annual appeal has raised since it began in 2005.
Halifax's interactive online Christmas choir campaign on Facebook at the end of 2011 raised £25,000 for Save the Children. The sum has been quadrupled to £100,000 by the bank.
The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland has published safer giving advice aimed at assisting the public in making informed choices about charitable donations and giving this Christmas.
A mobile version of the Charity Commission's website, which goes live today, is designed to make it easy for people to check charities' details on their phone before making a donation.
Britons are most likely to donate online to charity over the Christmas period on 22 December - at 13.08 to be precise; and they are most generous on 28 December.
The world’s foremost classical crossover group Il Divo have recorded their own online version of the classic Christmas song We Wish You a Merry Christmas in order to help Halifax raise £100K for Save
The first charity single created via Twitter, #twitterxmassingle, was launched in Dublin this week and went straight to number 4 in the Irish iTunes chart, according to the Irish Independent.
