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To mark its 160th anniversary the Skipton Building Society is going to give 160 donations of £500 to local community groups and clubs across the UK.

The National Union of Students (NUS) has been awarded £5 million from HEFCE (The Higher Education Funding Council for England) to run a Students' Gree

The Government has passed £2.6 million to armed forces charities from fines levied on banks for attempting to manipulate the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) benchmark.

Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland has appointed Fiona Duncan as Deputy Chief Executive.

Martin Brookes, formerly Chief Executive of New Philanthropy Capital, is to become the next Director at Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the foundation set up in 1987 by the publisher and philanthropis

The 2013 edition of Invisible Grantmakers has been published by Social Partnership Marketing LLP.

The Community Foundation for Ireland has revealed its grant detail on a county by county basis up to 2012.

Last year the IKEA Foundation gave €82 million (£71m million) in grants to help children and families living in poverty in 28 developing countries.