Tetley tea and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) have presented awards to exceptional BHF Shop volunteers who have gone the extra mile for the heart charity.
The national search to find 'Tetley Champions' was also intended to highlight the work of BHF Shop volunteers and encourage more people to volunteer in their local BHF store.
Seventeen IT volunteering projects are currently being negotiated as a result of the first "ITmatchmaker" event.
IT 4 Communities and Business Community Connections have hosted their first ITmatchmaker event for London-based charities in need of IT expertise and local IT professionals willing to provide their skills for a good cause.
A new Web resource will help voluntary and community organisations find out how to obtain free professional support.
Professionals4free contains information and advice to make it easier for voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) to assess whether they need professional help and if so, identify what type, such as legal advice or management consultancy.
Microsoft plans to offer free and discounted software to governments and educational institutions, although critics have suggested this might contravene European antitrust law.
Reading Is Fundamental, UK, an initiative of the National Literacy Trust, is to partner with The Big Badge Company to produce Clifford The Big Red Dog badges for sale from Summer 2003.
The badges will be produced in three designs to collect and will retail at £1 with 70p of each sale going directly to RIF, UK to support the promotion of children's literacy.
The British Heart Foundation is for the first time encouraging wider participation in its fundraising and awareness week by encouraging people to wear red.
Heart Week takes runs from 7-15 June 2003, and the charity is encouraging people to wear red throughout the week or at least on Friday 13 June. Of course, it is also encouraging people to make a donation of at least £1 as well.
An online insurance service could help charities secure for themselves the 20% commission usually paid to a broker.
Claiming to be the first 'insurance fundraiser' of its kind, the scheme has been developed by charity specialist Charity Business in partnership with Aisa Direct, an Independent Financial Adviser regulated and authorised by the Financial Services Authority.
Ethically Me is a new company that sells ethically produced products such as clothing. As well as donating 5% of profits to charities it is committed to getting further involved in two charities.
The Daily Mirror today highlights the theft of donated goods left outside charity shops.
Readers had contacted the newspaper claiming that such theft was rife in their area, so the newspaper set up "stings" outside charity shops in London, Oxford, Cardiff, Ilkeley and Didsbury.
