ActionAid has bolstered its campaign against the production of biofuels by commissioning a spoof 'Drive Aid' film featuring mock street campaigners.

International aid organisations have criticised today’s House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee report on development aid, which recommends that the government abandons its pledge to spend 0.7 per cent of gross national income on aid from 2013.

The Department for International Development has announced the launch of a rapid response network of 32 UK-based charities and businesses which will have access to funding within the first crucial 72 hours of a natural disaster.

The Co-operative Bank has reaffirmed its commitment to provide charity credit cards following last week's announcement by Lloyds Banking Group that it will stop providing them at the end of February.