December's Events

Next month's events

Events this month

Race For Life
Imperial Cancer Research Fund raceforlife is a national series of fundraising 5km walks and runs, exclusively for women, raising money for research into cancers that affect women. 120,000 women took part in 2000 and have already raised over £5 million.

Oceon Youth Trust
Mates vacancies in the coming months.

Comic Relief snaps up Harry Potter spin-off books

Love is not Enough
National Adoption Week

Voluntary Service Overseas
An increasing number of people aged 50+ are joining VSO. Average age is mid-30s.

New Help the Aged website

European Children's Trust @Home Project
Internet project linked to National Curriculum Key Stage 2 will show first hand how other children live in poor areas of Eastern Europe.

Charity Shops give high tech health advice!

Helping Kids Grow campaign
Supported by Childline and Kelloggs

Roundabout picnic society
The eccentric Birmingham-based society is being sponsored to picnic on roundabouts, much to the chagrin of the Lay-By Society...

Freed prisoners should jump housing queue, says charity
A controversial issue when there are so many already in the queue but it makes good social and economic sense in the long term...

Red Squirrel Week
Stars asked to draw or paint a 'squirrel squiggle' to raise money - Sir Paul MacCartney shows off his new talents.

International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.
European launch supported by Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas. "Raising awareness of the global problem of child abduction and exploitation is vital. We hope that the continuing growth of the charity will make a difference for future generations of children around the world."

Birth of Hope Appeal launched
A £1 million campaign aimed at preventing babies dying because of miscarriages, premature births and stillbirths. Duchess of York tells of heartbreak in her family caused by premature deaths of babies, including that of her sister who had lost four babies.

Save money and fuel
How to organise car sharing with the help of a new website.

The New Philanthropists

Author gives £5,000 tip after £12.50 lunch
Staff at the restaurant, who have been raising funds for Hospitality Action, a charity that helps workers in the hotel industry who have fallen on hard times, were "absolutely stunned" by the tip

Sir Teddy Bear's Picnic.£400,000 raised by sale of teddy bears for charities that help children in the poorest parts of the world