Professional fundraising organisation Fruitful Fundraising has been awarded Investors in People status.
Investors in People is the national quality standard which sets a level of good practice for improving an organisation's performance through its people.
Fruitful Fundraising said that it is the first professional fundraising organisation to receive the award.
The producers of CHARITease and SANCTURease are promoting the products by offering a free Sony AIBO in a prize draw.
The prize draw is open to all charities. To enter charities simply have to fill in the entry form which is available on the database company's Web site.
The closing date for entries is 31 October 2003, and the prize draw will take place 1 November 2003.
The Foundation will be working with Cascaid Consulting, a division of the Cascaid Group, which has been exclusively appointed to develop the major gift fundraising strategy.
The Air Ambulance Foundation (AAF) will focus on three prime sources of income: large donations from wealthy individuals, national companies and major trusts and foundations.
Arthritis Care is launching a direct mail campaign to convert 180,000 prospects into regular giving.
The campaign, developed by TDA, will test new approaches offering Arthritis Care's award-winning magazine Arthritis News in return for a regular monthly donation.
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has launched its first ever international fundraising appeal targeting American members, with a request to support conservation work at the Society's Lindley Library.
Oxfam's online events fundraising with Bmycharity has achieved impressive Gift Aid results, outperforming average sector Gift Aid conversions by nearly 300%.
Fruitful Fundraising will be promoting text giving to UK charities in partnership with SMStextgiving.
Smstextgiving Limited, the not-for-profit service which collects charitable donations via mobile phone text messaging, has entered into a joint venture agreement with London-based Fruitful Fundraising to promote text giving to charities across the UK.
Fundraisers will be able to monitor AMA Charity Services' telemarketing calls remotely from their own offices thanks to a new telephone system at the agency.
