New media

UK Fundraising's Howard Lake is to speak at this year's Charities Annual Conference in London.

Howard Lake, founder of UK Fundraising, will be speaking again at the Charities Aid Foundation's Charities Annual Conference on 31 October 1996.

The Regional Arts pages have introduced the ArtsFunding bulletin board.

The ArtsFunding bulletin board carries details of new funding opportunities for arts organisations.

FundUK is a new free e-mail discussion list for charity fundraisers across the UK.

FundUK is the first e-mail discussion list for UK charity fundraisers. Subscribe today and share your ideas and questions with other charity fundraisers. There is no fee.

A new survey aims to find out how charities are using the Internet.

Researcher Shirley Cook is asking charities to complete her survey on "Not-for-profits, the Internet and potential business benefits." Questionnaires should be completed by 20th July 1996.

The survey was originally at www.bucc.co.uk/vbp/survey/.

UK Fundraising has received photocopies of headed paper from organisations that have fallen for and prolonged the Gary Richard cancer chain letter.

CAF's Charitynet is offering free Web space for charities.

Charities Aid Foundation's site Charitynet is offering free Web space for charities. The site now lists over 70,000 charities and tax-exempt organisations. Charities will receive up to half a megabyte of space on which to publish basic information about themselves.

A free leaflet offers legal advice to charities on developing an Internet presence.

Solicitors DJ Freeman are offering a free leaflet on the legal aspects of Internet development for organisations including charities.

AM&M have created an online directory of charities' Web site addresses.

Direct marketing agency AM&M have published an online directory of UK charities' Web site addresses. The site was published at www.demon.co.uk/ammdirect/ but was no longer available by January 2001.

Internet Service Provider (ISP) UK Online is offering a £5 per supporter affinity deal.

UK Online will donate £5 for each charity supporter who subscribes to the UK Online family service. Partner charities will simply promote UK Online to their supporters and earn an affiliate fee for every new subscriber generated.

An Internet Service Provider in Canada has donated a website to the Manitoba Riding for the Disabled Association to help it recover from the destruction of its riding arena and offices. The website asks for funds for the organisation.

InternetXpress donated the Web site "in the hope that people everywhere will see their plight and offer to help."