Kirsty Weakley
Reporter , Civil Society Media Ltd from May 2011
Kirsty joined Civil Society Media in May as a reporter after completing a journalism course at Kingston University.
She has a degree in history from Swansea University where she ran a painting and decorating project helping vulnerable adults for Discovery Student Volunteering. She also lived in France for six months and speaks fluent French.
Email her kirsty.weakley@civilsociety.co.uk
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There should be closer engagement between agencies compiling official statistics and voluntary sector organisations that use them, to better understand the needs of the sector, according to a monitoring brief from the UK Statistics Authority.
The amount raised by the Pennies microdonation scheme has doubled in the last six months to reach £500,000.
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Create expert panel to screen ideas, advises online giving consortium
Tags: Digital fundraising
A panel of digital experts should be set up for entrepreneurs to present online giving ideas to, according to Spring Giving, a new digital consortium, in its report on digital giving.
The Royal National Institute of Blind People has developed software that integrates text-to-speech technology with Freeview plus set top boxes.
Would you hand your PC desktop background over to advertisers if it was fundraising for a good cause? That is just what one New Zealand organisation is asking. Kirsty Weakley takes a look.
Yorkshire Air Ambulance is the latest air ambulance service to issue a warning that bogus clothing collections are still being carried out despite three collection companies being shut down by the Insolvency Service at the end of last year.
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Awareness campaign advertises jobs for 'torturers' in Guardian and Independent 1
Tags: Fundraising campaigns
Freedom from Torture has launched a campaign to raise awareness of torture around the world by placing mock job adverts in the recruitment sections of two newspapers.
British Waterways has spent £23,730 on the balloons, bunting and stickers for the launch of the Canal and River Trust this summer.
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