Events

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.

BGC Charity Day, the annual fundraising event by brokerage company BGC Partners and its affiliate Cantor Fitzgerald, has raised an estimated $12 million for charities around the world.

Today is Freddie for a Day, which raises funds for the Mercury Phoenix Trust by marking the birthday of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.

In memoriam fundraising service provider MuchLoved has added a new fundraising events facility to its site. Supporters can now add their own event or occasion to support their chosen tribute fund.

Channel 4 and Cancer Research UK are collaborating on 'Stand Up To Cancer', a new national telethon in October.

International children’s charity Hope and Homes for Children has received $1 million from The "Jewels for Hope" auction which was held at Christie's in Geneva earlier this year.