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Charity secures funding to increase awareness of deaf access to the arts

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Arts charity Stagetext has received a £20,000 grant from the National Lottery Community Fund to help raise awareness of deaf access to arts and culture in the South East of England. The project will support Stagetext’s team of ambassadors to build relationships with deaf groups and deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people across the […]

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The seven organisations restoring nature and powering up clean, affordable energy

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The winners of the 2024 Ashden Awards have been announced – seven organisations restoring nature and powering up clean, affordable energy. Their achievements include bringing solar power and lower bills to older people in Barnsley, and electric vehicles to the streets of Kampala – as well as nurturing forests and rivers in Tanzania and the […]

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School for vision impaired students named in Commonwealth celebration

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New College Worcester, a residential school for young people aged 11 to 19 who are blind or vision impaired (VI), has been selected to feature in a new book celebrating 75 years of the Commonwealth.

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Salvation Army launch Take Back Scheme Fashion campaign

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The Salvation Army has launched the Take Back Scheme Fashion campaign featuring stylish looks from their generously received clothing donations. As the largest charity owned textile collector in the UK, the Scheme is operated by the trading arm of the charity (SATCoL) who have partnered with some of the largest retailers and brands in the […]

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Categories CommunityFundraisingRecent

Brighton community pub The Bevy launches magic money tree campaign

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‘Help us thrive rather than just survive’ was the message at the Bevy Pub’s Annual General Meeting as they launched their crowdfunding campaign. The Bevy in Moulsecoomb is Brighton’s only community owned pub, offering a lifeline to many local people, but has been on the brink of closure. Having just about stabilised, they have now […]

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West Yorkshire’s first community pub celebrates tenth birthday

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The Fox and Goose in Hebden Bridge, which is on the site of a medieval alehouse, was saved from going out of business in March 2014 when a group of regulars raised £130,000 to buy and repair the much-loved local, whose future came under threat. The pub marked its milestone with a mini beer festival showcasing the […]

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Pioneering local partnership to support the charity sector in Southwark begins

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Community Southwark, the umbrella body for Southwark’s voluntary sector, local funder United St Saviour’s Charity, and Southwark Council have come together to seek to find a way to solve one of the charity sector’s greatest challenges in Southwark: access to affordable premises.   Southwark is home to over 1,300 registered charities that provide essential services to […]

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Planting of Covid Memorial Forest

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DG Unlimited and Dumfries and Galloway Council have been working in collaboration with greenspace scotland and Commissioned Artists T S Beall and Katie Anderson to deliver Dumfries and Galloway’s contribution to Remembering Together, a national project that seeks to give each of Scotland’s 32 local authorities the chance to reflect their unique experience of the […]

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New project to help young women deal with social media body image pressures

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Researchers from the University of Portsmouth and The Girls’ Network (Portsmouth) will work together with local young women to create a ‘toolkit’, to equip them with the skills and knowledge needed to cope with potentially harmful social media content.

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Blind brain tumour patient ‘honoured’ to be face of charity campaign

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A young brain tumour patient is appearing on the backs of buses and on digital display screens nationwide as part of a charity campaign to raise awareness of the disease. Betsy Griffin, 10, from Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, is one of the four faces of this year’s Wear A Hat Day campaign. It is hoped her poster, which will feature on 400 buses and more than 100 […]

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