The London Development Agency is supporting a campaign to help 110 London charities join In Kind Direct and benefit from companies' surplus goods and equipment.
The charity In Kind Direct works to ensure that goods and equipment that companies no longer need go to a wide range of deserving causes rather than occupying valuable storage space or ending up in landfill sites.
Vicky Delderfield has joined Henshaws Society for Blind People in Manchester as Marketing and Communications Manager.
Vicky will be responsible for growing Henshaws' brand and profile across the North of England and ensuring consistency throughout all communications activity.
The Farmers pub in Portinscale, Cumbria, is donating 10p from every meal sold in 2004 towards its local Village Hall appeal.
The initiative, which has raised £400 so far, came at a crucial time for Portinscale Village Hall, situated next door to The Farmers, as it had recently been refused Lottery funding to restore the building.
The Charity Commission has announce the
appointment of a team of nine to lead charity regulation in Wales.
The staff are all Welsh recruits and will be based at the charity regulator's new office in Newport, Gwent. They bring experience from government, the voluntary sector, business, teaching, IT and journalism.
Over the next three months, Abbey will be donating an additional £100,000 to charities in the Camden areas whose applications fit with its new charitable priorities.
The League of Friends of Warrington Hospital has had to suspend its weekly fundraising lottery after fire safety officers ruled that the group's display materials could be a fire hazard.
