Age UK and London Zoo on shortlist for £2m Google charity competition
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Age UK and London Zoo on shortlist for £2m Google charity competition

22 May 2013 | Vibeka Mair

Google has shortlisted ten UK charities which stand the chance of winning £500,000 as part of its Global Impact Challenge.

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Becta to close as part of government spending cuts

Non-departmental public body and registered charity Becta is to close as part of the new government’s first round of spending cuts.

Compassion UK makes £250,000 with customer experience software

Poverty-relief child-sponsorship charity Compassion UK claims to have increased its income by more than £250,000 in the first year of using cloud-based customer experience software from RightNow.

Homelessness app a runaway success despite criticism

iHobo, the controversial iPhone app produced by homelessness charity Depaul UK, has received more than 100,000 downloads and earlier this week topped the download chart for free apps.

Charity security experts discuss mentoring scheme

The Charities Security Forum is considering the creation of a mentoring scheme to give smaller charities access to the security expertise of larger organisations.

NGOs need to look more closely at expense claims from their staff, in particular from UK staff based overseas as expatriates, and from staff who travel from the UK to field offices and projects overseas.

» VSO to slash overheads by a third

Leadership expert to speak at Civil Society IT Conference

David Taylor, author of the best-selling Naked Leader books, has been confirmed as the keynote speaker for the fifth annual Civil Society IT Conference on 18 November.

Charity and public sectors must work together on IT, says workshop

There needs to be a fuller exchange of information between local government and civil society organisations on IT issues in order to improve the delivery of public services, according to a workshop held at the Socitm Spring Conference.

Charity abortion TV ad banned in Northern Ireland

The first ever televised advertisement for abortion, due to be screened on Monday for sexual health charity Marie Stopes International will not be shown in Northern Ireland, where abortion is still illegal.

Microsoft to release charity CRM in the UK

Microsoft is to release a tailored version of Dynamics CRM for non-profits and NGOs in the UK later this year.

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