May 27th, 2010 by Lianne

Charities are awesome because… Everyone loves that warm fuzzy feeling you get when you donate to good causes.

If you’ve ever had anyone you know or any of your family suffer from anything most charities donate for then you will know of the importance that charity makes for these causes.

Some places are in need of any support and anything your community can do to help will dramatically help the facilities and care these places can offer.

May 20th, 2010 by Lianne

10% of charities fail in their first year according to recent studies detailing the last half of 2009.

Unfortunately the recession has hit charity shops as well as the other high street shops and although charity shops survive on voluntary work, the time available for people to help is as small as it ever has been and some shops are struggling.

May 15th, 2010 by Lianne

Voluntary work can help you with your career and looks great on your CV.

It helps build character and gives a better mentality all round. Plus it makes you feel good for being so generous!

It’s never too late to start giving, even if it’s just helping out your local charities with voluntary work.

Next time your in an interview and can make reference to charity work, your employee is guaranteed to be impressed. It will also make you stand out as not many people are going to have the same listings on their CV.

May 10th, 2010 by Lianne

By the end of Summer big events such as the London and Manchester marathon will have been completed as well as other big summer events.

The weather has been great for these recently and no doubt a huge sum of money has been raised thanks to the nations and gift aids support.

Did any of you guys race in the marathon? You should let us know how much you raised!

Don’t worry if you missed out on these events, it’s never to late to help out your local charities via various fund raising events.

May 5th, 2010 by Lianne

… for their causes.

Many charities will struggle to run due to being based on volunteers. I recently watched a great TV show about how a local charity was transformed into a proper business and the amount of donations they could make trebled in size.

The laid back attitude of the volunteers essentially reduced the amount of work being done and a little restructuring got them back on track making noticeable donations and eventually being a bigger part of the charity they were working for.

Plans to carry out the process on a number of other charities around the are have been discussed.

April 25th, 2010 by Lianne

With charity help falling over the past few years, are people now less generous to help out their local charity?

Some would suggest that Europes struggling economy combined with other issues have contributed to a fall in charity proceeds.

Governments have tried to find ways of encouraging the good old spirit, however, with issues of their own, not much has become of it.

Fortunately TV based charity events such as Children in Need still boast record collections which is helping out those less fortunate massively.

With a range of natural disasters of recent, including typhoons and earthquakes, people need your help as much as possible.

Please help out as much as you can!

April 20th, 2010 by Lianne

With a lot of text messaging problems circulating the media at the moment, is it time to start properly educating the parents and kids a like on the dangers of inappropriate picture text messages?

As Mobile phones physically store the messages and records of them pass through the mobile phone companies there’s always a risk of a phone going missing and getting teenagers between the ages 14-16 in trouble.

There have been a few campaigns on the matter and some schooling boards have tried to educate students on the matter.

As technology gets more advanced and more popular, these cases are only going to become more frequent.

April 15th, 2010 by Lianne

Scientific sutdies show that doing charity work builds character and can help you get jobs.

The study conducted last year, found here, correlates working for charity and successful job interviews. As you can see there is a strong correlation and thus one can conclude that the work definitly can help you look for work.

By building character and looking good on your CV, it’s worth thinking about. As discussed in the last article written, theres a selection of charities to pick from locally, which will most likely benefit a lot from any help.

Go help out for better prospects!

April 5th, 2010 by Lianne

Most charity shops are understaffed. Why not go help them out!

The voluntary work you will be doing will help support your local charity and keep them going in tough ecomonical times.

Not only will you be doing your charity shop a huge favour, you will also be helping the charity itself and the people it helps.

If you visit this website here, you will find a list of charities sorted by your area which you can pick from. Once you’ve picked one, go see if they could use a hand!

You will only feel better about yourself after helping so many people.

April 1st, 2010 by Lianne

Based in London, there are plans to help raise a bit of money for the local charities around the area.

If successfull we hope to help those around us and raise enough to give out to a multiple number of charities.

How do you propose we go about raising some money?

Possibly a sponsored run?

A sale of some kind?

What was the last charity event you held and was it successful?

Let us know!