Partnerships round-up: Maggie’s in link-up with Forth Ports sports

Plus: Avon announces CoppaFeel! alliance; Hope for Justice to profit from novel; and Veolia offers recycling service to CRUK

Thirty employees at Forth Ports, the company that operates ports in Scotland and Tilbury in London, have raised more than £25,000 for the cancer support charity Maggie’s by taking part in a Tough Mudder challenge. The whole team completed the 12-mile course of mud and obstacles in Dumfries and Galloway to raise £25,063.26 from friends and family for the charity, which operates centres in NHS cancer hospitals to provide free, practical, emotional and social support to people with cancer and their loved ones.

The direct-selling cosmetics company Avon has announced a partnership with the breast cancer charity CoppaFeel! to encourage more young women to check their bodies for signs of cancer. The partnership will raise money for the charity, but will also raise awareness among Avon’s sales representatives of the need to check for breast cancer on a regular basis. The representatives will pass the advice on to their customers. Avon will also support CoppaFeel! in recruiting new Boobettes, the charity’s team of women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer at an early age and work to raise awareness of the symptoms, as well as creating awareness materials and digital tools to help the charity in its mission.

The author Michael Bearcroft has pledged to donate £1 from each sale of his newly rereleased novel Dangerous Score to the anti-human-trafficking charity Hope for Justice. The novel, originally published in 2012, features human trafficking. During his research, Bearcroft was surprised by the scale of the problem. He said in a statement that he wanted to support the cause when his book was republished by New Generation Publishing this month.

The waste-management company Veolia will provide free recycling services at 120 of Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life fundraising events between May and October next year. The company will distribute, collect and process recycling bins at venues where the 5km, 10km, Pretty Muddy, half marathon, marathon and hiking events take place. Staff from Veolia will also be directly involved in the events, either as participants or as members of the volunteer support teams looking after the runners.

The petrol station operator Rontec is aiming to raise more than £100,000 for the charity Young Epilepsy after naming the organisation as its charity partner. Customers at Rontec’s 240 outlets will be able to give an optional donation of 25p to the charity every time they pay with a card during the five months of the partnership.

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Digital round-up: #PiccadillyOn lights up for Barnardo’s

The lights at Piccadilly Circus are being switched back on after nine months, with Barnardo’s set to benefit

It might not have caused quite the furore of the silencing of Big Ben, but another London landmark has been hidden for some months now, though not for much longer.

The famous lights at Piccadilly Circus are due to be switched back on next month after nine months of renovation work, and the #PiccadillyOn campaign has been launched to mark the moment and raise funds for Barnardo’s.

Launched today, the campaign invites people to sponsor a unique colour chip, which will form part of a 3D countdown clock on the screen, before forming part of a choreographed reveal moment in October when the screens will be powered up with a display of the sponsored colours – all streamed live on Facebook. The minimum donation through PiccadillyOn.London is £2.00 and all proceeds will go to the children’s charity.

More than 100 charities have now signed up to Dontsendmeacard.com’s ecard service since the social enterprise was launched in 2015.

The platform provides a fundraising toolset for charities that want to encourage supporters to send digital cards and donate the cost of printed cards to their cause. Charities are able to customise their pages on the site, including uploading ecard artwork and creating fundraising pages for different occasions. Supporters can then donate the cost equivalent of cards and stamps, and send ecards by email or share to Facebook.

Charities to have signed up to the platform include Headway, Rainbow Living, KIDS, the British Deaf Association and the Royal Life Saving Society.

“We’ve seen generous individuals give as much as £200 in lieu of cards and stamps, making it a great source of additional charitable income this Christmas,” said founder Alex Furness.

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Digital round-up: WaterAid превращается в вдохновение в последней рекламной кампании в Интернете

WaterAid изменила курс в своей кампании по приведению чистой воды в самые обездоленные страны мира.

Вместо того, чтобы подчеркнуть опасности и трудности, с которыми могут сталкиваться общины в развивающихся странах в области обеспечения чистой водой, благотворительная организация заказала серию более вдохновляющих телевизионных рекламных объявлений с прямым ответом, призванных заставить общественность чувствовать себя хорошо, а также готова поддержать ее усилия .

Первое объявление First Drop, предназначенное для празднования чистой воды, заставляет зрителей перестать думать о чем-то, что может быть легко принято как должное.

Чарли Дэй, менеджер по сбору средств в WaterAid, сказал: «Добиться всех, везде чистой водой, значит вдохновлять огромное количество людей, чтобы помочь. Чтобы сделать это, мы хотели нарушить структуру традиционной благотворительной рекламы и показать позитивность чистой воды, а не огромные проблемы без проживания ».

Действие против голода #HealthyMumsHealthyKids – первое обращение, которое будет объявлено в самом большом раунде британских призывов к помощи в Великобритании.

Департамент международного развития на этой неделе запустил финансирование на сумму до 30 млн фунтов стерлингов в течение 25 благотворительных апелляций. За каждый £ 1, подаренный благотворительной апелляции, правительство внесет 1 фунт британской помощи.

Акция для детей, Всемирный детский рак, Концерн по всему миру, Консультативная группа по вопросам мин и сборка Африки также входят в число благотворительных организаций, которые уже выбрали, чтобы их итоговые суммы по сбору средств соответствовали призывам, которые проводились в следующем месяце и сентябре следующего года

Апелляции британской помощи будут выделены на www.gov.uk/uk-aid-match и на каналах социальных медиа DfID по мере их запуска.

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Digital round-up: CBM launches app to help disabled people access life-saving disaster relief

Overseas disability charity CBM will launch the full version of its Humanitarian Hands-on Tool on Saturday to coincide with World Humanitarian Day.

The app, which is designed to provide help for people with disabilities seek life-saving relief services during emergencies, was unveiled in prototype version last year, since when CBM has consulted with humanitarian and disabled people’s organisations and incorporated their feedback.

HHOT aims to provide practical, step-by-step guidance that emergency workers can access freely and easily to ensure that the help they provide, such as emergency shelters or food and water points are accessible to people with disabilities or other marginalised groups.

Zoe Hopkins, senior programme officer at humanitarian aid agency Mercy Corps, who took part in the consultation sessions, said it was important to adapt common emergency responses to be more disability inclusive.

“Interactive use of the HHOT tool revealed many practical ways of adapting all sectors of emergencies, from quick wins such as appropriate signage in a camp, to more participatory approaches of ensuring disabled people’s organisations are present at Cluster meetings,” she said.

Breast Cancer Care has created a video to celebrate 25 years of the pink ribbon, the global symbol for breast cancer.

The Pink Ribbon 25 anniversary film, which also features the charity’s new limited edition pink velvet ribbon, has been launched across Breast Cancer Care’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram channels. It features 25 people who have been affected by breast cancer in some way whether that is through facing their own cancer diagnosis or supporting someone else.

Samia al Qadhi, chief executive of Breast Cancer Care, said: “Since the first pink ribbon was created we’ve helped millions of women, men, their friends and families live with, through and beyond breast cancer. This year, as we celebrate and mark its 25th anniversary, it remains as compelling as ever – a powerful symbol of hope, strength and unity.”

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Partnerships round-up: Macmillan backs Baxters Loch Ness Marathon

Plus: MyLife Digital Group rides for Dorothy House; fish-oil firm links up with Baby Lifeline; Central England Co-operative votes for Dementia UK; and autism chartity goes into partnership with intu

Macmillan Cancer Support is the official charity partner of the Baxters Loch Ness Marathon and Festival of Running, and is hoping to beat the £74,000 it raised last year. The charity has been the official partner of the event, due to be held this year on 24 September, since 2009. This year it hopes the event will raise at least £75,000, which will go towards funding Macmillan’s support nurses and helpline.

Employees of the data-management company MyLife Digital Group will cycle 130 miles to raise money for Dorothy House Hospice Care. The sponsored ride, on Saturday 5 August, will start at the Dorothy House charity shop in Winsley, Wiltshire, and will visit the charity’s shops in in Bradford on Avon, Trowbridge, Westbury, Warminster, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Midsomer Norton, Keynsham, Bath, Corsham, Chippenham, Malmesbury, Calne, Devizes and Melksham before returning to Winsley. Some members of the team will complete the whole ride and some will join for different legs of the journey.

The supplement company Wiley’s Finest Wild Alaskan Fish Oils has partnered with the pregnancy and baby charity Baby Lifeline. During August and September, 5 per cent of the proceeds of every sale of two of Wiley’s supplements will be donated to Baby Lifeline to help the charity purchase medical equipment and to provide training for healthcare professionals. The company has also donated an oil painting by the nationally recognised artist Anna Rose Bain, which the charity will auction to raise money.

Staff at the Central England Co-operative have voted for Dementia UK as its charity partner for the next 12 months. Customers will be able to support the charity by donating when they visit food stores, funeral homes or travel shops, and staff will also take part in a range of fundraising events. All the money raised will be used to provide specialist support to families affected by dementia through the charity’s Admiral Nurse service and Dementia Helpline. 

The National Autistic Society plans to launch a week-long Autism Hour campaign in partnership with the shopping centre owner intu this autumn. As part of the campaign, every retailer, restaurant and leisure operator at intu’s 14 centres in the UK are being asked to reduce their lights, music and other background noise for an hour at 10am on Monday 2 October. The charity aims to give autistic people a break from the kinds of stimuli that can leave them feeling overloaded with information and distressed. Other shops and services will be encouraged to hold their own Autism Hours across the week as part of the National Autistic Society’s wider Too Much Information campaign to reduce the overload that autistic people can experience in public.

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Partnerships round-up: Waitrose gives £500k to Marine Conservation Society

Plus: Bethany Christian Trust in new alliance; Book Trust links up with four partners; and Chestertons golf day raises £3,000-plus for St Mungo’s

The supermarket chain Waitrose is donating £500,000 from its carrier bag fund to the Marine Conservation Society to help organise 1,000 beach and river clean-up events in 2017 and 2018. The events are expected to involve thousands of volunteers, who will remove rubbish from beaches and rivers. Many of the plastics removed will be sorted and recycled, which the company said was a first. The initial event will take place from 15 September until 18 September.

The Scottish homelessness charity the Bethany Christian Trust has been chosen as the official charity partner for the family-run Craigie’s farm and restaurant, based in Edinburgh. The company will raise money for and awareness of the charity by involving it in events held at the farm and restaurant.

The Book Trust has entered into a four-way partnership with the retailer Sainsbury’s, the publisher Penguin Random House and Entertainment One, which owns the brand of the children’s character Peppa Pig. The four organisations will collaborate to publish Shop With Peppa, an interactive sticker storybook to encourage parents to read with their small children. Copies of the book will be available exclusively from Sainsbury’s stores across the UK from 21 August. The new project will complement the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards, held in August, which are also produced in partnership with the Book Trust and celebrate the best children’s books, encouraging parents and carers of young children to spend time together reading. The awards will be supported by in-store activity in Sainsbury’s shops to promote children’s reading, including special appearances Peppa Pig and her family.

The property company Chestertons has raised more than £3,000 at its annual Charity Golf Day for the homelessness charity St Mungo’s. More than 40 players, including Chestertons’ staff, clients and suppliers, attended Malden Golf Club in New Malden, Surrey, to take part and help beat last year’s total of £2,500. The company is aiming to raise funds for St Mungo’s through various initiatives including bake sales, quiz evenings, bowling competitions and wine tastings.

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Digital round-up: Women's Aid запускает онлайн-руководство по безопасности с Facebook

Плюс: NPC публикует глобальный отчет об инновациях; Сантандер выпускает еще £ 200 тыс. Через Crowdfunder; И Kidscape работает с Theatre Royal по производству кибер-издевательств

Women's Aid запустила новое руководство чтобы помочь женщинам оставаться в безопасности в Интернете. Национальная благотворительная организация по борьбе с насилием в семье работала с платформой социальных сетей Facebook чтобы произвести Расширение прав и возможностей женщин в безопасном режиме Onlin e и предоставить женщинам и девочкам информацию о понимании рисков и инструментов, необходимых для защиты Себя в социальных сетях. К ним относятся рекомендации о том, как сообщать о злоупотреблениях и запрещать совместное использование личных изображений. «Женская помощь» говорит, что руководство предназначено специально для консультирования лиц, переживших насилие в семье, потому что многие женщины, которые испытывают домашнее насилие, делают это онлайн.

Кэролайн Миллин (Caroline Millin), менеджер программ по политике безопасности в Facebook сказала: «Мы знаем, что исполнители насилия в семье могут злоупотреблять партнерами или бывшими партнерами в Интернете. Это поведение неприемлемо и против Facebook ]. Мы гордимся тем, что работаем с такими экспертами, как «Женская помощь», чтобы дать женщинам возможность оставаться в безопасности онлайн ».

New Philanthropy Capital опубликовал новый отчет в котором рассмотрены восемь тенденций в области измерения и оценки в добровольном секторе. Глобальные инновации в области измерения и оценки выделяют восемь событий, которые бросают вызов традиционной практике. Сюда входит роль технологии: в отчете подробно описывается, как это позволяет организациям собирать различные типы данных в больших масштабах и как увеличение доступности данных и вычислительной мощности позволяет использовать новые способы получения информации. Восемь тенденций, которые были выявлены, включают ориентированную на пользователя оценку; Совместное измерение и оценка; Управление воздействием; Связь данных; большие данные; Дистанционное зондирование; И визуализация данных.

Энн Казимирски, соавтор доклада и руководитель отдела оценки и оценки в NPC, сказала: «Традиционные, ресурсоемкие и исключительно ретроспективные подходы не отвечают всем нашим требованиям в области измерения и оценки. Новые подходы, новые технологии и большие данные Позволяя нам измерять быстрее и эффективнее, что должно помочь благотворительным организациям действительно сосредоточиться на том, что работает, и таким образом увеличить их влияние ».

Сантандер выделил еще 200 000 фунтов стерлингов на социальные предприятия и общественные проекты после возобновления сотрудничества с Crowdfunder. Это второй этап его Фонда Чангемакера после пилотного этапа. Проекты, которые ищут поддержку обездоленных людей в Великобритании, представляют свои идеи на веб-сайте Crowdfunder и получают средства, если их идеи поддерживаются «толпой». Проекты, которые ищут средства в размере до 20 000 фунтов стерлингов, могут применяться, и, если они будут одобрены, они получат 50 процентов своих потребностей в финансировании из Сантандера. На сегодняшний день было предоставлено 33 гранта для проектов, в том числе шоколада Worx, шоколадного производителя в Девоне, в котором работают инвалиды, «Change Please» в Лондоне, который обеспечивает обучение бездомным людям стать баристами и «Curiosity Cafe», которое поддерживает людей с деменцией в Нортумберленд.

The Royal Royal Haymarket Masterclass Trust – премьера новой пьесы Cookies с упором на последствия и последствия кибер-издевательств и других более темных аспектов Интернета. Игра, написанная победителем первой премии Fringe Эмили Дженкинс, была заказана и разработана для The Cyberscene Project, инициатива, созданная доверием в партнерстве с детской благотворительной организацией Kidscape и Pureland Foundation. Целью проекта является использование театра для поддержки здоровья и благополучия молодых людей, затронутых кибер-издевательствами, и повышение осведомленности об опасностях и позициях в Интернете.

Говоря о пьесе, Эмили Дженкинс сказала: «Эта игра пришла прямо из того, что молодые люди поделились со мной об их повседневной жизни в Интернете и их необыкновенных и страшных онлайн-событиях. Прежде чем мы расскажем им, что они должны делать или как они должны Мы должны слушать то, что они должны сказать. Это не моя история, это их ».

Два спектакля пьесы будут поставлены 29 октября.

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Digital round-up: Manchester bees tattoo appeal exceeds its fundraising target

Plus: Date for #GivingTuesday 2017 announced, OLIO adds donation feature to food-sharing app and the UNHCR launches #TheExtraMile

The Manchester Tattoo Appeal, set up in response to the Manchester Arena bombing last month, has exceeded its £500,000 target, making its JustGiving page the fifth-largest crowdfunding page on the site. Tattoo parlours across the UK pledged their time and resources to tattoo as many Manchester bees as possible as symbols of support, with those being tattooed (an estimated 10,000) donating money to the appeal to help victims of the terror attack. More than £4.7m has now been raised from various JustGiving fundraising campaigns set up in the wake of the bombing, including the Red Cross’s We Love Manchester Emergency Fund page, which has raised £1.6m alone.

#GivingTuesday is to return for a fourth year in 2017, with the date confirmed as 28 November. Speaking at the launch of the event this week, Sir John Low, the chief executive of the Charities Aid Foundation, which oversees and coordinates the day, said #GivingTuesday had become “one of the biggest days of charitable giving in the UK” and was a day for “doing good stuff”. He said that research commissioned by CAF after last year’s day found that 6.4 million people said they had heard of #GivingTuesday and 4.5 million had taken part. More than one in three people who were aware of #GivingTuesday said they would do something for charity in future as a result of the event.

The local food-sharing app OLIO has launched a new donations feature to incentivise its users to share more of their surplus food as well as raise money for causes. OLIO is a free app that connects people with local shops and cafés so that surplus food can be shared and not just thrown away. Users share photographs of their items on OLIO for others to collect. The new donation feature mean users can add food and other household items to the app and request donations to charities of their choice, with OLIO charity partners Feedback and FareShare the initial beneficiaries. OLIO co-founder Saasha Celestial-One said: “By teaming up with Feedback and FareShare, we are now making it even more meaningful for our users to share their spare food and work to tackle the problem of food waste at scale.”

The UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency, launched a new fundraising event to coincide with World Refugee Day this week. #TheExtraMile is a virtual marathon challenge, with participants invited to cover 27 miles over a month, logging their distances through the UNHCR’s fundraising platform partner, GivePenny. It hopes to raise £50,000, which it says will be “enough to give more than 300 refugee families a home away from home”.

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Digital round-up: Father’s Day a ‘missed opportunity’ for charities

Plus: grants available to help charities reach the over-65s with information about smart meters; and a Scottish digital fund opens

Father’s Day, which is on Sunday 18 June, is a missed opportunity for the sector, with charities missing out on donations from ethical or alternative gift programmes by not digitally promoting around key calendar events, according to research from the digital media company Equimedia.

The Charities Aid Foundation’s UK Giving Report 2017 said there had been a 19 per cent increase in the number of Britons purchasing ethical gifts over two years. But after conducting keyword analysis of online charity campaigns Equimedia said there had been “no significant uplift from charitable organisations promoting their alternative gift services”. Louise Burgess of Equimedia said: “It is a well-known challenge that many in the third sector are not adopting digital marketing techniques consistently enough to promote their causes. That charities are ignoring key moments throughout the year to engage, moments when Google search data clearly shows that people are actively looking for unusual gifts for their loved ones, highlights a tremendous missed opportunity.”

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Charities and other non-profit organisations are being invited to apply for grants from the Smart Energy GB in Communities fund to help the over-65s. A total of £250,000 is being made available in small grants of up to £5,000 to organisations that can help Smart Energy GB reach those of this age group who have no access to the internet and provide them with information about smart meters and how to use them in the home. The fund will be administered by the Charities Aid Foundation. Smart meters will see the phasing out of estimated energy bills and are fitted with displays that show the cost of a household’s energy use. Applications for funding are available until 19 July and more information can be found here.

The Digital Xtra Fund has announced a £50,000 fund for projects in Scotland that teach digital skills to young children. This will be the first fund to be made available since the organisation became a charity in March this year. Projects for “innovative, adaptable and sustainable projects” that engage with groups such as girls and young women who are currently under-represented in the sector are being particularly encouraged. The ultimate aim is to increase the number of young people from all backgrounds entering high-skilled careers in digital.

Kraig Brown, partnerships and development manager for the Digital Xtra Fund, said: “We want to improve digital skills among young people by supporting high-quality extracurricular activities, thereby preparing them better for a digital future and inspiring them to consider a career in digital tech.”

The closing date for applications is 1 September and more information can be found here.

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