Prospect research

Online directory site 192.com is offering the new 2004 Electoral Roll as a searchable database.

You can search the Electoral Roll by postcode, street name, door number or house name only if you wish.

Amnesty International UK (AIUK) has received a donation of £1 million from Dame Anita Roddick and Gordon Roddick towards the organisation's new Human Rights Action Centre.

Six of this year's titles from CaritasData have been added to the UK Fundraising Bookshop.

The latest additions to the UK Fundraising Bookshop include updates to CaritasData's charity and fundraising publications.

The new editions are:

• Charity Trends 2004
• Charity Funding Yearbook 2004
  

Construction News has published a list of the wealthiest builders.

The 'Fortune Builders' list is published this week at £2. Unfortunately it isn't available yet on the Web site.

Theyrule.net attempts to demonstrate the links between major US companies and their directors, some of the most powerful organisations and individuals in the world.

It is not intended as a research tool for fundraisers, but it can show prospect researchers just how complicated some of the business links between American company directors can be.

The wealth of the 'craft millionaires' such as Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, and Karen Millen rose by half during 2003, according to figures in the second 'City & Guilds Vocational Rich List'.

The latest issue of Philanthropy in Europe magazine looks at the confusion surrounding the true value of the Stichting Ingka Foundation.

Issue 18 of Philanthropy in Europe magazine examines the wealth of Ingvar Kamprad, the Swede who founded furniture retail chain IKEA, and the Stichting INGKA Foundation which reportedly owns the company.

Prospect research specialists Prospecing for Gold latest e-mail newsletter includes recommended Web sites and details of rich lists.

Bart Becht, chief executive of a cleaning products company, received the highest salary last year for any FTSE 100 company, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Becht, chief executive of Reckitt Benckiser, earned £4.23m in 2003 in a combination of salary and bonuses.

The Researchers in Fundraising group will hold their annual conference on 29 June 2004 at the Friends Meeting House, Euston.

The conference will be themed around prospect management, with speakers including Helen Brown, from the Helen Brown