Category Archives: General

Big Green Challenge open for applications

Posted on January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment

The Big Green Challenge from NESTA is a £1 million prize fund that challenges people to work together to develop and implement new approaches that will lead towards a 60% reduction of carbon emissions in their communities.

The Big Green Challenge is only open to not-for-profit groups. Examples of eligible groups include community co-operatives or clubs, charities, voluntary groups, parish councils and larger not-for-profit organisations. The ten finalists, once selected, will have a year to show that they can turn their ideas into action, and the winner will be announced in late 2009.

Find out all you need to know at www.biggreenchallenge.org.uk

Entries for the first stage of applications must be in by 29 February 2008. Are you up to the challenge?

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Posted in Frontline Action, General

Volunteers Urgently Required

Posted on January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment

MS Research Training and EducationVOLUNTEERS URGENTLY REQUIRED
FOR A COLLECTION in AID of the MS RESEARCH CHARITY
at THE MALL CRIBBS CAUSEWAY near Bristol
on FRIDAY 18TH and SATURDAY 19TH JANUARY 2008

The collections will take place all day on both of these days, and if you are able to help for a couple of hours, please contact:

BRIAN PAGINGTON
on Tel: Home 01454 320141
Tel: Mobile 07776 341 601
Please forward this request to anyone you know who might be able to help with these collections.
Thank You

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Posted in England, General, Volunteering

Launch of New Design for MS Research Charity

Posted on October 9, 2007 | Comments Off

Last week I have published a new design for the MS Research charity website. It is using a free template from D. Carter who gives away some of his designs on his own site or with others on the Open Source Design. I provide the work free and I have been a volunteer for many years. At the same time, things are changing at the MS Research and Resources Unit and a new volunteer is writing a newsletter which will give no doubt some details about the Project on Fatigue started last month…Then there will be another round of updates. :-)

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Posted in General, IT and Internet

What a lot of spam

Posted on September 26, 2007 | Comments Off

Two thousand spam comments caught by the Akismet spam filter since we started using it on CharityBlog 3 months ago. That’s an average of around 20 a day. If any real comments got trapped by mistake, apologies, but we do review the whole *** lot.

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Posted in General

Finding Britain’s Everyday Heroes

Posted on July 26, 2007 | Comments Off

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched his own book, ‘Britain’s Everyday Heroes: The Making of the Good Society’, which tells the stories of 33 individuals whose commitment to a cause or campaign has inspired him. East London charity Community Links helped with the book and will receive the royalties. And apparently VolResource is recommended in the resources section.

We’ll add a link to the book on Amazon – it’s discounted by a few quid.

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Posted in General

Sector social networking

Posted on June 24, 2007 | Comments Off

The social networking site Facebook appears to be flavour of the month (see today’s Networker article in The Observer for instance). However, it also has some possibilities.

I was prompted to join by David Wilcox (Designing for Civil Society) and have located a number of relevant groups with a presence. They’re not all bursting with activity, yet, but with Facebook’s origin in higher education there’s a range of student volunteering groups for instance which could make future developments interesting.

Not exactly the first way to get campaigning groups together online (e.g. see BBC’s Action Network) but perhaps once which could attract more than the usual suspects. We’ll be updating the VolResource campaigning resources page soon!

OK, now to check if the ‘Share with Facebook’ button works (only active on CharityBlog’s author pages at present).

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Posted in General