Celina Ribeiro

A fundraiser for International Development Enterprises UK (IDE-UK) beat off competition from 34,000 other applicants to land what has been touted as the ‘world’s best job’ – to work as caretaker for a Great Barrier Reef tropical island in Australia.

Government-backed charity the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust is holding a 3-day conference for headteachers on a palm-fringed beach in Mauritius.  

American super-retailer Target has taken to Facebook to help it allocate $3m to charity by the end of this month. It’s launched a two-week campaign to have Facebook users vote for ten different charities they want the corporation to support. The charities get a split of the $3m according to what percentage of people vote for them. Alongside that it’s trying to get voters to partner with local organisations as volunteers.

Like Twitter, charity: water was pretty much unknown to me six months ago. But like Twitter, charity: water, while somewhat baffling, is ignored at charities' peril. charity: water (yes – that is a purposeful and pretentious lack of capital letters despite the fact that it is clearly a proper noun) is only three years old but in its short life has come to set the standard for fundraising from social networks.