http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/home Latest Articles http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/news/content/7060/office_for_civil_society_to_slash_spending_by_11m http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/news/content/7060/office_for_civil_society_to_slash_spending_by_11m Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:14:00 GMT The Office for Civil Society has announced that it will be cutting £11m from its 2010/11 budget. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7048/nspcc_children_1st_and_spar_beat_2m_fundraising_target http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7048/nspcc_children_1st_and_spar_beat_2m_fundraising_target Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:42:00 GMT A corporate partnership between retailer Spar UK and children’s charities NSPCC and Children 1st has surpassed its ambitious £2m fundraising target. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7046/oxford_uni_anger_over_toxic_dump_donation_links http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7046/oxford_uni_anger_over_toxic_dump_donation_links Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:53:00 GMT Students and academics at Oxford University are reportedly outraged that the institution has accepted a £3.25m donation from a foundation with links to Trafigura, an oil trading company which was this week found guilty in a European court of dumping toxic waste in West Africa. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7039/big_searches_for_group_to_run_200m_local_trust http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7039/big_searches_for_group_to_run_200m_local_trust Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT The Big Lottery Fund is seeking expressions of interest from organisations to create and manage its £200m Local Trust. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7038/o2_makes_text_donations_free_for_charities http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7038/o2_makes_text_donations_free_for_charities Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:08:00 GMT O2 has become the second mobile operator to pledge to deliver 100 per cent of all text donation value to charities in a move which could signal an industry-wide shift. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7035/arts_heritage_and_sports_to_get_more_from_purified_lottery_distribution http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7035/arts_heritage_and_sports_to_get_more_from_purified_lottery_distribution Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:25:00 GMT Lottery funding of sport, arts and heritage could climb by around £50m per causal area in a reform of the National Lottery previewed in parliament last week. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7032/evening_standard_1m_fundraising_campaign_to_fund_local_micro-grants http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7032/evening_standard_1m_fundraising_campaign_to_fund_local_micro-grants Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:53:00 GMT The new London Evening Standard £1m fundraising which asks Londoners to help combat poverty in the city will go towards funding small local groups. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/blogs/content/7033/fte_de_la_fontaine_building_a_donor_following_suisse_romande_style http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/blogs/content/7033/fte_de_la_fontaine_building_a_donor_following_suisse_romande_style Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:23:00 GMT Creating an experience is the most effective way of getting would-be donors hooked. Just ask the clever people of Port de Pully, says Tom Eeles. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7030/big_lottery_fund_launches_30m_youth_fund http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7030/big_lottery_fund_launches_30m_youth_fund Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:28:00 GMT The Big Lottery Fund launched a £30m funding programme,to offer support to young carers, young people leaving youth offending institutions and young people leaving care. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7026/cameron_launches_youth_national_citizen_service http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7026/cameron_launches_youth_national_citizen_service Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:19:00 GMT The government will start voluntary national citizen service for 16 year olds next summer. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7025/sherrington_promoted_in_good_agency_restructure http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7025/sherrington_promoted_in_good_agency_restructure Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:29:00 GMT Matthew Sherrington, a new recruit to The Good Agency, has taken over the leadership of the agency amid a wider reshuffle of the management team. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7021/pfra_officially_endorses_the_word_chugger http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7021/pfra_officially_endorses_the_word_chugger Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:31:00 GMT The Public Fundraising Regulatory Association has officially endorsed the word ‘chugger’ by announcing it will use it in engagement with stakeholders, “when appropriate”. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7020/fundraising_sector_divided_over_campaign_strategy http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7020/fundraising_sector_divided_over_campaign_strategy Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:36:00 GMT A meeting of fundraising sector representatives earlier this month that aimed to make progress on the shape of a sector-wide public-facing campaign to boost giving, ended without any clear conclusion after differences about the strategic direction could not be resolved. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/blogs/content/7019/why_there_shouldnt_be_aid_for_afghanistan http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/blogs/content/7019/why_there_shouldnt_be_aid_for_afghanistan Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:29:00 GMT The £200m increase in aid to Afghanistan demonstrates the futility of ring-fencing funding and disrespects the entire history of governmental international aid, says Celina Ribeiro. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7017/microsoft_billionaire_donation_part_of_gates_campaign_to_improve_and_increase_giving http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7017/microsoft_billionaire_donation_part_of_gates_campaign_to_improve_and_increase_giving Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:30:00 GMT Less than two months after Bill and Melinda Gates, with their friend Warren Buffet, challenged the wealthiest people in the US to give away the bulk of their money to charity, the billionaires are starting to roll in. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/blogs/content/7016/big_society_on_a_local_scale http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/blogs/content/7016/big_society_on_a_local_scale Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:58:00 GMT Big Society offers communities the chance to change their ways, notes Gordon Hunter as he offers some big ideas devised for a local action plan. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/finance/data/charity_index/content/4098/charity_index http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/finance/data/charity_index/content/4098/charity_index Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT How the constituents of the Charity 100 Index and Charity 250 Index are chosen. Gareth Jones reports. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7010/challenge_events_can_be_held_on_school_holidays http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7010/challenge_events_can_be_held_on_school_holidays Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:02:00 GMT Charities will be free to organise challenge events during school holiday periods as a result of a revision to the codes of practice on outdoor fundraising. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7009/global_demand_for_brits_remember_a_charity http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7009/global_demand_for_brits_remember_a_charity Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:30:00 GMT British organisations Remember a Charity and the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association are in discussions with foreign fundraising groups about how to grow the legacy markets in their respective countries. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7004/donations_down_96_per_cent_in_2010 http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/news/content/7004/donations_down_96_per_cent_in_2010 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:26:00 GMT More than ten million people in the UK have reduced their charitable donations in the first six months of 2010 and the total amount donated is down by 9.6 per cent, according to research conducted for Investec Bank.