Individual giving

The Disasters Emergency Committee Syria Crisis Appeal has received £3.4 million in donations from the UK public in the first 48 hours.

Environment and community charity Healthy Planet is launching a crowdfunding site next month for UK environmental and conservation organisations.

A man who stole commuters' donations to charity across eight counties has been sentenced to 13 months in prison.

Bacs Payment Schemes Ltd, the organisation behind Direct Debit, have announced The Big Break, a campaign that aims to benefit 100 good causes with cash prizes this year.

A survey of charity donors for Charities Aid Foundation has revealed that 26% of people who give to charity say that they expect to cut the amount they give over the next 12 months.

The UK government's Aid Match scheme will match fund public donations to ActionAid's 'Ready for Anything' campaign which starts next week.

The Public Fundraising Regulatory Association (PFRA) is aiming to double the number of agreements with local councils to manage face-to-face fundraising within a year.

Double Paralympics 2012 gold medallist Hannah Cockroft is supporting a PR and fundraising campaign by Whizz-Kidz which launched this week.

UK data cleansing and data enrichment specialist CCR Data is now offering 'mobile append' to its range of data enrichment services via its partner Direct Data Services Ltd.