Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has advised ITV on distributing the money that the broadcaster promised to reimburse following the premium rate phone-in competition scandals last year.
Ten major charities in the UK have developed a benchmark job description for community fundraisers that identify and the key tasks and person specification for the role.
The Charity Commission is now accepting online registrations for new charities and, as a result, is aiming to reduce the registration time to just five working days by the end of this year.
Closing date for comments and suggestions on the Cabinet Office's draft guidance to help professional fundraisers and retailers who raise money for charity through sales to comply with new laws.
SOS Children's Villages stopped all direct mail activity during 2007 - cold, warm, email - and reports that its annual income is about £3.4 million, about three times what it was raising five years ago.
The Fundraising Standards Board has published its first full adjudication on a complaint about fundraising. The complaint against direct mail by Cancer Research UK was not upheld.
The Charity Commission has appointed Beryl Hobson as the new Head of its Large Charities Division, which manages and delivers the Commission's advice and support services to charities whose annual income exceeds £5 million, except for those charities based in Wales.
Macmillan Cancer Support and Cancerbackup have announced that they have agreed to merge with effect from about six weeks time.
Following the transfer of Cancerbackup to Macmillan Cancer Support, two of Cancerbackup's existing trustees, including Dr Maurice Slevin, currently Chairman of Cancerbackup, will join the expanded Board of Macmillan Cancer Support.
