Events

Rapidata Services Plc has launched the Friendship Powered Fundraising™ App for Facebook to the UK charity market. It is "the first ever event fundraising app that runs entirely within Facebook".

Theatre listings website Whatsonstage.com has chosen InterAct as the charity beneficiary of its Whatsonstage.com Awards.

On 27 October thousands of people in many cities around the world will join in 'Thrill the World', an annual fundraising event to perform the dance moves to Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' at the same ti

Online fundraising service JustGiving reports that individual fundraisers taking part in organised events reach on average 562 people on Facebook.

Supermarket Sainsbury's is running its second annual Million Meal Appeal this weekend in partnership with FareShare.

Online giving site JustGiving has created an online clearing house to help match would-be London Marathon runners with charities who already have a guaranteed number of places.

Veteran polar explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes is planning to be the first person to cross Antarctica during its winter.

The 2013 Nightrider™ London event was launched to charities this week. In this year's event 3,000 cyclists raised over £2 million in one night for a variety of charities.

An Irish children’s charity has been criticised because of its planned participation in a fundraising event with a British army band.

Runners in April's Virgin London Marathon raised £52.8 million for good causes, bringing the total raised since the race began in 1981 to £610.7 million.