Pirate radio goes digital for Remember A Charity Week

Remember A Charity Week has been launched and for the first time features a digital radio station hosted by the former pirate radio DJ Emperor Rosko.

This year’s campaign has drawn on the DJ’s services to raise awareness about wills specifically among the baby boomer generation, who might remember listening to the original broadcasts of pirate radio.

The shows on Last Pirate FM, which is broadcasting on DAB radio and online between 11 and 15 September, will feature interviews with charities, supporters and celebrities including Twiggy, Wilko Johnson and Keith Skues, discussion shows, music from the 1960s and on-air discussions with the public.

Rosko, who was one of the DJs on Radio Caroline, probably the most famous radio station of the 1960s, before he joined BBC Radio 1, launched the campaign by sailing down the Thames on a recreation of Caroline’s Ross Revenge boat. The ship will travel to historic music locations around the country throughout the week.

This year’s campaign is using the hashtag #HaveyourSay to encourage people to “have your say on the world you want to pass on”, which could include leaving a gift in their wills. A number of Remember A Charity’s 190 member charities have got involved by creating their own jingles, which will be broadcast throughout the week.

Rob Cope, director of Remember A Charity, said: “This year’s campaign is very different from anything we have done in the past and is possible only due to the involvement of so many charities. Working collaboratively, we can really champion the importance of gifts in wills, creating a cultural change that will take us one step closer to making legacy giving a social norm.”

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Further £3m given to Grenfell fire victims in past week, commission’s data shows

A total of £5.8m of the £19m raised has now been distributed, according to the regulator

An additional £3m has been distributed to victims of the Grenfell Tower fire in the past week, according to new data released by the Charity Commission.

Last week the commission announced that just £2.8m of the £19m raised for Grenfell Tower victims had been distributed to those affected.

But commission data released last night shows that £5.8m has now reached the people who need it, although that still represents less than a third of the money that has been raised so far.

The amount that has been given to distributors by groups fundraising for the Grenfell fire victims has also reached £9.2m – an almost £1.9m increase on last week’s total. 

The fire, which occurred in Kensington, west London, on 14 June, killed an estimated 80 people and left many more homeless.

The Charity Commission has also announced that initial payments to the next of kin of those who are believed or known to have died in the fire have been increased from £20,000 to £40,000.

Payments to those seriously injured at Grenfell have also been doubled from £10,000 to £20,000 per person.

The Rugby Portobello Trust will also distribute a £15,000 payment from the London Community Foundation to families from Grenfell Tower in the next few days, the commission said.

Of the funds raised so far, British Red Cross has sent £2.4m of the almost £5.8m it has raised to distributing organisations, and the Kensington & Chelsea Foundation has also sent £2.5m of its £5.8m.

The Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund and the London Community Foundation has sent £3.9m of the £6.2m it has raised to distributing organisations, the commission data shows.

Artists for Grenfell and the London Community Foundation have sent £316,000 of the £700,000 it has raised to distributing organisations, and Muslim Aid has sent £57,713 of its £177,803.

Of the distributing organisations, the London Emergencies Trust has given £1.8m of the £4.8m it has received to victims, and the Rugby Portobello Trust has got £3.3m of the £4m it has to those affected.

Direct distributions from the Kensington & Chelsea Foundation, Turn2us, Muslim Aid and the London Community Foundation have all been sent in full to victims of the fire.

Clement James Centre has distributed £58,482 of the £62,923 it has received to victims, and the National Zakat Foundation has handed out all of the £253,080 it has been given to Grenfell victims.

David Holdsworth, registrar of charities in England and Wales, said: “We are pleased that a further £3m has reached survivors and those affected by this terrible tragedy in the last week, and that further funds will be distributed in the coming days. Some challenges still remain but it is important that the charities continue to work with the community and that the remaining funds are made available to meet their short, medium and longer-term needs.”

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Bipartisan Resolution for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week Introduced in U.S. House of Representatives – Eating Disorder Resource Center (EDRC)

Bipartisan Resolution for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week Introduced in U.S. House of Representatives

On June 29, 2017, Congressman Tim Murphy [R-PA-18] and Congressman G.K. Butterfield [D-NC-1] of the House Energy & Commerce Committee led the introduction of a bipartisan House of Representatives Resolution to create a Congressionally recognized National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. With fortytwo bipartisan U.S. House of Representatives signing-on as original co-sponsors, (H.Res.428) demonstrates a strong Congressional support for raising awareness and understanding of eating disorders.

The Resolution syncs with the eating disorder community’s over two-decade tradition of celebrating the National Eating Disorders Awareness week, designating the last week of February as the recognized week. National Eating Disorders Awareness Week is the largest national campaign that brings public attention to the critical needs of people with eating disorders and their families.

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Merger of National Council for Palliative Care and Hospice UK to be finalised this week

Half of the NCPC’s 14 staff have moved to Hospice UK, and the merger will be completed on 1 July

The National Council for Palliative Care will be absorbed into Hospice UK when the charities finalise their merger later this week.

The merger, which will be completed on 1 July, is being carried out to help the two charities expand their work, reduce duplication of effort and build on the already close working relationship between the two organisations, a spokesman for the charities said.

Of the NCPC’s 14 staff, five took voluntary redundancy, two were made redundant and the rest have moved to Hospice UK, which has 57 staff.

The NCPC’s board will be wound up and the new charity will operate under Hospice UK’s name, the spokesman said.

The charities’ boards agreed in March to work towards a formal merger, and said Tracey Bleakley, chief executive of Hospice UK, would be acting chief executive of both organisations from 31 May while the merger was finalised.

Bleakley has today been confirmed as chief executive of the merged organisation and Claire Henry, former chief executive of the NCPC, has become director of improvement and transformation at Hospice UK.

Both charities already share a building in London, which will remain the merged charity’s headquarters, the spokesman said.

Hospice UK had an income of £5.9m in the 2016/17 financial year, while the NCPC had an income of £1.4m.

Bleakley said: “We need a bold new approach to caring for adults and children facing life-shortening conditions and confronting the taboo subjects of death and bereavement. This merger will greatly strengthen our ability to do this.

“As we join forces, we are looking at how we can open up good end-of-life care for everyone no matter who you are, where you are or what condition you have.”

Baroness Ilora Finlay, outgoing chair of NCPC and now vice-president of Hospice UK, said: “I’m delighted that our organisations are joining forces to further strengthen the voice for excellent palliative and end-of-life care for all.

“By coming together, we will continue to provide a clear vision and an even stronger voice for end-of-life care everywhere, because the most important person in end-of-life care is the person with the life-limiting condition and their family.”

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