Barnardo’s, the children’s charity, is producing individually 3D-printed snowglobes of the homes of people who donate to their Home For Christmas campaign as part of a drive to raise money before Christmas Day.
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The Metropolitan Police, together with the Freedom Charity, has launched a smartphone app to help young people who might be at risk of being forced into marriage
Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, is donating half a billion dollars in his company’s stock to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, his second major donation since committing to giving away most of his wealth.
Beacon of Hope, a charity helping people with terminal illness in Ceredigion and Powys, has gone into voluntary liquidation with the loss of 17 full and part-time jobs.
The chief executive of the RSPCA has defended the £330,000 spent on the charity’s successful prosecution of David Cameron’s local Oxfordshire hunt, blaming the Crown Prosecution Service’s poor track record on prosecuting such cases.
