Individual giving

CHADEX has developed an online advertising marketplace for UK charities, enabling them to target online donors more effectively and at low cost.

The NSPCC's annual Letter from Santa campaign raised £1.82 million, including Gift Aid, at the end of 2012. This is an increase from the £1.7 million it raised in 2011.

The sixth research phase of a survey to measure the impact of the recession on fundraising in the charity sector has opened.

Local charities in England have received a total of £1.2 million through Localgiving.com's Grow Your Tenner campaign which matched small donations.

Top-up donations at small businesses from visitors to Cumbria have generated £60,000 in the last six months of 2012 for nature conservation projects across Cumbria.

Online fundraising service JustGiving anticipates that 21 December will see the largest amount donated online in one day in the whole of 2012.

Telephone fundraising agency Pell & Bales is offering more charities the chance to increase their fundraising with a donated telephone campaign.

Pure, the full service agency that specialises in telephone fundraising, has launched 'Clear', a new private site face-to-face fundraising agency.

Passengers on easyJet flights have donated £1 million to Unicef through spare change and unused foreign currency in just five months.

The Wikimedia Foundation which runs various projects including the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia has launched its annual fundraising appeal.