And finally

'…And finally' stories appear periodically on Civil Society eNews and are a light-hearted look at the more amusing occurrences in the sector.

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Matt Damon turns Santa for water.org

Fundraising | Niki May Young | 15 Dec 2011

Tags: And finally | Films | Brands and Marketing

Bourne trilogy star Matt Damon has teamed up with water.org to encourage Santa's elves to purchase limited edition CamelBak water bottles as presents this Christmas.

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Co-op chief executive launches single to support Mencap

Fundraising | Niki May Young | 9 Dec 2011

Tags: And finally | Corporate fundraising | Collaborations

Co-operative Group chief executive Peter Marks is leading a band of fellow colleagues in launching a charity single to support the organisation's charity partners, Mencap and its sister charity Enable.

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Student designs face-to-face fundraising robot

Fundraising | Kirsty Weakley | 18 Oct 2011

Tags: And finally | Digital fundraising

A product design graduate from Dundee University has built a donation robot which aims to engage with the public in a fun way.

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Graduates selling their faces offer Christmas Day proceeds for charity

Fundraising | Niki May Young | 11 Oct 2011

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Two Cambridge graduates clawing their way back from student debt by selling their faces as advertising space over the next year, have pledged to donate the proceeds from the sale of their organic canvasses on Christmas Day to charity.

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Have a lie-in to donate to charity with Snooze app 1

IT | Kirsty Weakley | 19 Aug 2011

Tags: And finally | Mobile technology

People who use an iPhone as their morning wake-up call can now donate to charity every time they hit the snooze button with a new app developed in America.

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The penis not mightier than the sword at the Charity Retail Awards 1

Fundraising | Niki May Young | 5 Jul 2011

Tags: And finally | Charity shops

A full-sized sword was awarded as the Most Unusual Item Donated at the Charity Retail Awards last night, trumping a host of curiosities from an urn full of ashes to a preserved badger's penis.

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Sir Robin Bogg in 'Send me your piccies for Red Brolly Day' pledge

Fundraising | 17 Mar 2011

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Sir Robin Bogg, the ebullient chief executive of the umbrella sector’s umbrella body, has hit upon a not-particularly-imaginative-but-worthy-nevertheless way to raise money for Gampic Relief’s Red Brolly Day this Friday.

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Gosschalk tests personalised sponsorship email 4

Fundraising | Tania Mason | 11 Feb 2011

Tags: Individual giving | And finally

Fundraiser Alan Gosschalk is testing a new way of raising sponsorship money through Justgiving that tailors each request to the prospective donor.

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Prince William and Kate Middleton consider charitable wedding

Fundraising | 19 Jan 2011

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Prince William and Kate Middleton may bypass the tradition of receiving elaborate gifts on their wedding day by requesting instead that guests make a donation to a list of chosen charities.

Blogs

And the winner is... 1

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 6 Jul 2010

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Not many things will silence a room hundreds-deep with half-drunk fundraisers, but Lindsay Boswell taking to the podium and announcing "we made a mistake tonight is one of them, says Celina Ribeiro.

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Legacy bet will win Oxfam £100,000 if Federer wins Wimbledon

Fundraising | Niki May Young | 23 Jun 2010

Tags: And finally | Legacies

Roger Federer will be playing for more than he expects at Wimbledon this year following a donation from the grave to Oxfam, if the world champion wins the men’s singles tournament.

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A barmy act of support

Fundraising | Niki May Young | 2 Jun 2010

Tags: And finally | Community fundraising

With the World Cup looming ever nearer, one Gloucestershire resident is showing unprecedented support for his country, whilst raising money for the local hospital's Special Care Baby Unit, by turning his house into a giant St George’s Cross.

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The National Trust gets into bed with Mills & Boon

Fundraising | Vibeka Mair | 11 May 2010

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Hopeless romantics' favourite publisher Mills & Boon has released a novel with the National Trust.

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Election candidate makes charity donation promise

Fundraising | 6 May 2010

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Public faith in politicians may be at an all-time low following the expenses scandal, but one candidate is proving his virtue by promising to donate £1,000 a month of his MP salary to charity, should he be elected.

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Charity finds donated ashes

Fundraising | 21 Apr 2010

Tags: Charity shops | And finally

A charity in Gloucestershire is on the hunt for the owner of a casket of ashes, believed to have been mistakenly mixed up among a delivery of donated furniture.

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Stephen Pidgeon gets censored 2

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 17 Mar 2010

Tags: And finally | Direct mail

It has been quite a week for controversial viral videos. First the pop doyennes Lady Gaga and Beyonce get everyone from feminists to misogynists hot under the collar with the release of a racy, and some say retrograde, film clip featuring lesbian kisses and navel-level necklines.

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Vice gets nice

Fundraising | 8 Mar 2010

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Make what you will of prostitution, but one Nevada brothel is proving that society’s seedy underbelly also has a heart.

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Mystery campaigner spotted at NCVO conference 1

Finance | 3 Mar 2010

Tags: Taxation | And finally

Have you seen this man? Civil Society has come into possession of the chilling picture opposite, which depicts a key henchman for the Robin Hood Tax campaigning group.

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Astronaut Ice Cream Anyone?

Fundraising | 23 Sep 2009

Tags: Charity shops | And finally

Never knowing what treasures you might find in your local charity shop is one of the joys of venturing in, but a 1970s condom, a set of false teeth and live rifle ammunition go way beyond most people’s expectations. Amongst the standard donations of books, clothes and general bric-a-brac, veterinary charity PDSA has discovered some rather strange items in its pink collection sacks in the last year.

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Lego men put their bodies on the line for National Autistic Society

Fundraising | 16 Sep 2009

Tags: Advertising | And finally

Lego pieces necessarily end up in the strangest of places, but a new charity calendar has taken the little plastic men on altogether new adventures. As part of a two-year charity partnership with the National Autistic Society, Lego has released a fundraising calendar for 2010.

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Double D for Donation

Fundraising | 9 Sep 2009

Tags: Advertising | And finally

We’ve seen some weird and wonderful fundraising ideas over the years but they don’t come much wackier than a recent charity auction from Swedish TV presenter Carolina Gynning. The former model and Swedish Big Brother winner (pictured) decided to sell off her infamous silicone breast implants, now that they are no longer part of her anatomy.

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Song lives and dies by the virtual world

Fundraising | 26 Aug 2009

Tags: Advertising | And finally

In days long past, artists suffering from writers’ block would have to endure hours of procrastination, frustration and empty pages. Now, they turn to Twitter. Or so has Gary Go, the bespectacled British musician described by Q magazine as a “one man Coldplay” (as though Chris Martin allows other people in his band).

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Groundhog day for the Little Black Dress 1

Fundraising | 19 Aug 2009

Tags: International | And finally

The little black dress has long been hailed as staple of women’s wardrobes, but one fundraiser has taken commitment to the LBD to a new level. New Yorker Sheena Matheiken is wearing the same black dress every day for a year to raise money for charity and awareness of sustainable fashion in a one-woman campaign she has called The Uniform Project.

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Pope sings for Christmas charity album

Fundraising | 12 Aug 2009

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Christmastime radio is often filled with echoes of sleigh bells ringing, tree tops glistening, children listening and the like. This year, however, Latin may become more prevalent on the airwaves for Pope Benedict XVI has cut a Christmas album to help educate underprivileged children about music.

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Shop volunteer misses the point 1

Fundraising | Gareth Jones | 28 Jul 2009

Tags: Charity shops | And finally

Charity shops may be finding it increasingly hard to find quality stock, but one went too far when it sold a walking stick belonging to one of its volunteers. Irene Drane, who works at the Macmillan Cancer Support charity shop in Perth, had bought the new cane after a hip replacement operation, only for a fellow volunteer to sell it thinking it was a donation.

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Every little leaf helps

Fundraising | 2 Apr 2008

Tags: And finally | Community fundraising

Tesco may have announced this week that its 2007 Charity of the Year partnership with the British Red Cross has raised £4.4m, but in Manchester the supermarket has contributed to raising cash for charity in a more obscure, albeit rather less lucrative manner.

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Heavy petting at Welsh charity shop 1

Fundraising | 7 Feb 2008

Tags: And finally | Charity shops

More usually known for helping to eradicate illness among animals, PDSA appears to be operating a sideline of encouraging sickness of the love variety among humans. It has emerged that two volunteers who met at the PDSA charity shop in Neath, South Wales, have become engaged, sealing their betrothment with a ring donated to the shop.

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PF reporter shortlisted for prestigious journalism award

Fundraising | Becky Slack | 1 Nov 2007

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PF reporter Gemma Ware has been shortlisted for the New Business Features Journalist Award at the PTC New Journalist Awards.

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RNLI fundraiser forced to send SOS to its boats

Fundraising | Becky Slack | 1 Jul 2007

Tags: Individual giving | And finally

A man fundraising for the RNLI by circumnavigating the UK on a sea scooter proved the value of the charity's service yesterday when he got into difficulties and had to be rescued by one of its lifeboats.

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A SPECTRE to behold

Fundraising | 1 Jul 2007

Tags: Individual giving | And finally | Community fundraising

It is not an unusual sight at a conference for agencies to bend over backwards to promote their clients or impress potential new ones. But at this year's Institute of Fundraising National Convention, Cascaid's Alan Clayton took it one step further.

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