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Online game aims to save rainforests

A challenging new online computer game designed to raise awareness of the impending destruction of the world's second largest rainforest has gone live.

DSC responds to new threat to Charities Bill

No public input to 'public benefit'!
An unsatisfactory proposal from the Charity Commission

Who gives? Del Boy or Sex and the City's Carrie? More poor people than rich give to charity

Headline Findings:

· Giving is most prevalent amongst people who live in council
accommodation, and least prevalent amongst high earners and affluent households

Campaign challenges UK to double charitable giving by 2014

The Giving Campaign is challenging the UK to double charitable giving within the next decade.

Lord Joffe calls on the wealthy to get Britain giving

Speaking to the House of Lords on Wednesday 26 May, Lord Joel Joffe CBE will draw attention to the 25% fall in individual charitable donations as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the

John Healey MP commends The Giving Campaign

Speaking at a closing reception for The Giving Campaign at the Treasury on Wednesday 18th May, John Healey MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, commended the role of the Campaign in working to prom

Campaign's work promoting charity financial products set to continue

Speaking today at ‘An Interest in Giving’, a seminar – hosted by The Giving Campaign at the Chartered Insurance Institute, Stephen Ainger announced that Charities Aid Foundation (‘CAF’) will

Lottery manager pledges 35 per cent donation for good causes

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Million-2-1, the licensed lottery manager responsible for the NSPCC mobile phone lottery, today pledged that all its charitable lotteries will donate 35 per cent to good causes in future –15 per cen

Financial Advisers Give 'Good' Advice

New NOP World research , commissioned by The Giving Campaign, indicates that one quarter of financial services professionals are now giving advice to clients about the tax implications of their charit

Capturing the spirit of volunteering competition

A photographic competition has been launched by Volunteering England together with the Guardian Newspaper and Dixons to show the incredible and varied work of the UK's millions of volunteers.

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