iHobo - finally, a charity iPhone app that makes you think
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iHobo - finally, a charity iPhone app that makes you think 14

12 May 2010 | Jonathan Waddingham

A new iPhone app by Depaul actually makes users feel something (while getting around donation restrictions). That is revolutionary, says Jonathan Waddingham.

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Believe what you want (except if you're Christian)

It's not surprising that Christians' response to the atheist bus campaign became the fourth most complained-about ad in the Advertising Standard Authority's history with over 1,000 complaints compared with...

Charity shops have lost the plot

I always thought charity shops were meant to be value for money. Recently, however, I've been shocked with the prices at local stores. At one charity retailer, who will go unnamed, the lowest price for...

Must we get our kit off to get noticed?

Rowena Lewis is shocked by the Autism Trust's new poster campaign showing its founder 'getting 'em out' for the boys.

Hey preacher, leave those atheists alone!

With so many reasons for commuters of any religious persuasion to feel uncomfortable about travelling on public transport, surely the fact that a poster suggesting that there is ‘probably no God’ and...

Why not invest money into local organisations who are already lending to businesses and have been all the time. Come on Vince put money in directly at the bottom and stop messing about at the top.

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The Jade effect on fundraising

The publicity around Jade Goody has prompted an increase in demand for cancer charity services but there has not been a major publicity drive for donations to charity.

Out with the old?

Retail expert Mary Portas has revamped a Save The Children charity shop in Kent, transforming its fortunes but upsetting a few volunteers along the way. So who's right?

The Convention: an argument for grammar

Celina Ribeiro unleashes her non-conventional fury at the grammatical faux pas of convention...

Where did all the women go?

So we learn that the typical director of fundraising in the top 100 charities by income is a 45-year-old man. But 47 per cent of fundraising directors in the top 100 are women. That doesn't mean, however,...

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