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Alexandra Rose Charities will celebrate its centenary on 21 June this year with a street collection in London involving up to 1,000 volunteers.

Supermarket Sainsbury's is inviting customers and colleagues to nominate their favourite local charity at their local store.

Small Charity Week 2012 takes place next month from 11 to 15 June, offering a variety of free opportunities for small charities across the UK to fundraise and raise their profile.

These include:

Sainsbury's annual Active Kids voucher campaign is underway, offering schools and groups the chance to secure sports and activity equipment and experiences for children and young people.

Localgiving.com will match fund £375,000 in donations to local charities across England during March. Each charity can have up to £2,500 in donations matched.

Used car website Motors.co.uk has launched a UK-wide competition to find outstanding people in local communities who help others.

Karnival, the University of Nottingham Students' Union's charitable organisation, has raised over £1.3 million for local and national charities during 2011.

The Twixtmas campaign is once again urging the British public to make the most of the period between Christmas and New Year and indulge in a mass 'binge doing' of charity and voluntary work.