Consulting / agencies

Telephone fundraising agency Pell & Bales is offering to run 21 campaigns for charities at no charge.

Global Children’s Charity Plan UK has begun a year-long programme of public events aimed at increasing the numbers of sponsors supporting the charity and at boosting levels of awareness of the charity

Cancer Research UK has chosen Convio Teamraiser™ to support its Relay for Life fundraising campaign, with the aim of turning event participants into year-round fundraisers.

Comic Relief is to continue to benefit from a range of major technology providers who will be providing their services again for this year's Sport Relief.

Blackbaud, Inc. is to acquire Convio, Inc having "entered into a definitive merger agreement" with the company.

In memoriam giving site MuchLoved.com has introduced a free Tribute Fund Facebook App for its charity partners.

Fundraising recruitment specialists the Kage Partnership report that fundraisers at all levels in the London area secured an average salary increase in 2011 of 1%.

Breakthrough Breast Cancer has chosen digital communications agency Chameleon to create a new main website.

Macmillan Cancer Support has chosen full-service marketing and communications agency Burnett Works as strategic and creative partner for its flagship fundraising event, The World’s Biggest Coffee Morn

Software provider and consultancy thankQ has donated a copy of its thankQ CRM system to the Charity Employees Benevolent Fund (CEBF) as part of its corporate social responsibility activities.