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Charities
Archives for October 2008
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Charities Trust autum update
There is a lot of new ways of supporting charities including a price comparsion website. http://www.charitiestrust.org/newsletters/Corporate_E-Bulletin/index.html
100 club help
I am currently on my schools fundrasing committe, we were thinking of setting up a 100 club to raise money for books for the school. it has been my task to find out if this would affect my gambling, lottery regulations (yes i know i get all the good jobs) problem is that i dont have a clue where to starting looking. Any…
Grants and PTA's?
Does anyone have any information and/or experience on appling for grants. We are a small School looking to make/construct a garden for our children. Are there any grants open to us as a PTA to apply for? Thanks in advance Deedee
Are charity accounts safe?
Hi Folks We use a treasurer account with HBOS at present. Does the Government £50,000 protection cover such accounts as well? thanks for any advice simon
Recycling Elbow Crutches/sticks
Hope this is the best place for this post!! At my work we have about 50+ crutches/walking sticks that we are unable to issue to patients for health and safety reasons (i.e. patients must have brand new ones to purchase). Most are in perfect condition and others may just be missing the ferules off the bottom. If i dont find…
I want to donate handmade jewellery to charity - help!
Hello I have been making handmade jewellery, mainly bracelets for a while using a variety of techniques such as micro macrame, bead weaving etc. But there is a limit to how many bracelets a girl needs and I have no-one to give them to! Im not really interested in selling them or anything like that as I suffer from…
help to send items to a childrens home - courier needed
does anybody know a courier that gives a discount for charities/cheap courie. i want to send about 25kg of clothes/chocolate to a childrens home in lebanon. cheapest ive found is £125.40 via parcels2go.
Girly night/Pamper evening. Ladies please vote
Hi all just wondered when you think would be the best night for a girly/pamper night-Pink Party in aid of breast Cancer? If there was an evening near you where you could buy a ticket and go and have a few beauty treatment (mini-manicure, mini-facial etc) along with maybe some fun demonstartions (local pole dancing aerobics…
Teddies for tragedies
If you have a bit of double knitting wool and some time please see this website http://www.teddiesfortragedies.org.uk/ Many thanks
Global Giving
Here is a new initiative to help supporters of local development in poor countries find the projects they like. Here's what they say about themselves. www.globalgiving.co.uk GlobalGiving connects you to some 500 well-vetted grassroots charity projects around the world. It's an efficient, transparent way to make an impact…
Pampers and Unicef
I was watching a item about this on Breakfast. http://www.unicef.org.uk/corporatepartnerships/partner_detail.asp?partner=30
Wellingborough Tabletop Sale for Cherish Chelsea Appeal
Hi we are having a Tabletop Sale in Wellingborough at the Tithe Barn, Saturday 4 October 10am till 3.30pm. Chelsea Knighton is 3 yrs old and has Neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer. Her family want to try and suppress the cancer which means trying all kinds of alternative treatments, and then ultimately take her to…
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