Telemarketing agency Pell and Bales have won the DMA Royal Mail Award for the Best use of Telemarketing for the second year running. The Award was made in recognition of their campaign with WWF (UK). Pell and Bales won the same award in 1998 for their work with IFAW.
Children's charity Barnardo's has launched a new communications campaign "to challenge out-dated views of Britain's biggest children's charity." The hard-hitting ads depict children in a variety of 'adult' situations, including homelessness, alcohol abuse, suicide and prison.
The Lancaster Royal Grammar School has launched a Web-based alumni database which is aimed at building closer links with the school's alumni, but which should also enhance the quality of its alumni records.
ICFM is warning its members of a new street collection fraud. Street collectors are collecting in the Euston area of London on behalf of BEST, the Benevolent Ex-Servicemen's Trust. The Charity Commission confirmed to ICFM that no such charity is registered with them. ICFM recommends that you inform local police if you come across any other sightings.
It is essential to thank donors for their gifts, and it makes sense to thank them as soon as possible. The immediacy of online donations offers an immediate response and acknowledgement. Such a facility is about to launch at the Arizona State University. From 1 November they will start offering a "scrolling honour role of donors" at their Web site.
Relationship fundraising has been the buzzword of the nineties, but is another concept likely to take its place? Stephen Pidgeon, chairman of advertising and marketing company Target Direct, thinks so.
Forward Emphasis, "Ireland's first ethically based and trade unionised Direct Marketing Agency" is celebrating its first year in business on 16 August. The agency, founded by Patrick Loughrey, formerly fundraiser with Amnesty International in Belfast, prides itself on its ethical approach to business.
What do you do when you are missing data for your fundraising appeal? Peter Wylie sees missing data as an opportunity and not the drawback that you might think.
UK Fundraising welcomes a new columnist this month. Peter Wylie will be writing a monthly column on fundraising databases. Peter holds a doctorate in industrial psychology from Columbia University, and is an expert on how non-profit organisations can do a far more efficient job of fund raising by carefully mining their donor databases.
National newspapers have launched their seasonal charity appeals. But you would only know that if you bought the paper versions. UK Fundraising reads the papers and finds they aren't encouraging online readers to give. Read the report below.
