Charity News

The former School for Boys pupil, who recently announced he will departing from the BBC's hit show at Christmas after three series, is urging riders to sign up for this year's Cycle 4 Cynthia and help its two benefitting charities - the Friends of Cynthia Spencer Hospice and Macmillan Cancer Support in the county.

A CHARITY shop volunteer has desperately appealed for a thief to return a photo of her late mother, stolen along with her handbag, while she was at work in the shop.

Nearly a fifth of Wales' charity shops could close if the Welsh government implements proposed changes to business rate relief, a charities group says.

A charity supporting LGBT people in east London was chosen as the recipient of a A 3,000 donation after pupils argued its case in a school project.

The Tampa Bay Times has recently come up with a list of America's worst charities .

A FURNITURE re-use charity has been given a grant by Swindon Council to help towards the cost of buying a new van.

Bikers from the Sunnyside Motorcycle Club will roll into the DDS-Alley Learning Center, 12th and Walnut streets, Lebanon, on Saturday, when the group holds its annual Sunnyside Charity Ride.

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Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says he will still give back some or all of the $20,000 he was paid by a New Brunswick-based charity last year even though at least one of its board members has ties to the federal Conservatives.

A children's charity distributed $375,000 among 26 agencies Monday, providing funding assistance to families who cannot afford theater tickets and for children with attention disorders whose families cannot pay for tuition.

The Spark Plug car club will hold a car show and swap meet fundraiser this Saturday at Atchison Park in New Hudson.

Today marks the start of Small Charity Week and to coincide we've released some data that shows how charitable giving is split across the sector.

As the Government reviews its spending plans for the future, Jeremy Blaydes, pictured, from the University of Southampton wants to ensure funding for vital research into cancer is not cut.

Staff at the West Bromwich Building Society, in High Street, were asked to nominate three worthy causes to receive a share of a A 1,000 charity donation as part of the Community Counts campaign.

The aim was to find people interested in giving their time free for a wide range of organisations and services.

The Florida-based charity raises millions of dollars in donations in the name of dying children and their families, yet spends less than three cents on every dollar to actually help kids each year, according to a Tampa Bay Times investigative story that caught my eye last week.

Google is spearheading a new, shareable database that should make it easier for organizations to report and remove images of child sexual abuse from larger portions of the Web.

In midlife, Florence Howse has discovered a love of reading, something she never imagined possible while in high school in the 1980s.

TWO women who have been heavily involved in charity fundraising and volunteering in the town have been named as St Ives' Citizens of the Year.

Have you donated to one of these "charities"? A report by the Tampa Bay Times and The Center for Investigative Reporting revealed what the sources called America's 50 worst charitable organizations -- those that take the money for the "charity founders themselves and the for-profit companies they pay to run boiler rooms that dial for dollars."