The Great Daffodil Appeal is Marie Curie Cancer Care’s biggest fundraising campaign which takes place throughout March each year. Everyone has the opportunity to donate for a daffodil badge and wear it to show their support of Marie Curie Nurses. Every donation made to the appeal helps the nurses provide high quality care in patients’ [...]

Student Volunteering Week will take place between 22-28 February 2010. The week was established in 2001 and is now an annual fixture in the calendar for the student volunteering sector. The week raises the national profile of Further and Higher Education volunteering. The theme for 2010 is ‘Inspiring futures; connecting communities’. Working with stakeholders from [...]

Safer Internet Day is organised by Insafe each year in February to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world.
On Safer Internet Day 2010 , INSAFE launches the campaign “Think B4 U post”.
Children and teenagers need to be empowered to manage their [...]

Holocaust Memorial Day is commemorated internationally every year on 27 January. This date was chosen as it is the anniversary of the day in 1945 on which the Soviet Army liberated the largest Nazi concentration camp – Auschwitz-Birkenau. Each year the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust urges everyone in the UK to pause and reflect on [...]

BE LOUD BE CLEAR events have been organised all over the country;  from individuals holding a collection at their local pub, supermarket or train station, to dress loud days at the office, awareness stands in hospitals, bingo afternoons in care homes and concerts and cabarets. All across the UK people are having fun in the [...]

In 1829, Louis Braille published the Method of Writing Words, Music, and Plain Song by Means of Dots, for Use by the Blind and Arranged by Them. Today, this method – braille – is used in virtually every language as the standard form of reading and writing by people who are blind, deafblind, or living [...]

Why not take your Christmas cards to the special recycling bins in Marks & Spencer, WH Smith and TK Maxx and the money raised will help the woodland conservation charity  to plant 12,000 new native trees during 2010 – many by children.
Donors can even choose which part of the country they want trees to be [...]

Rights of Women (ROW) are very pleased to announce the publication of our latest legal handbook, Seeking Refuge? A handbook for asylum-seeking women. This vital resource explains the law that determines who is entitled to protection in the UK and how the asylum system works.
After working with ROW on the publication of their latest legal [...]

The UK theme for World AIDS Day 2009 will focus on the reality of HIV in the UK today. The aim is to present true, and sometimes surprising, accounts of how HIV affects people in the UK and to dispel myths and misinformation.
Discover the real stories about HIV in the UK today. Understanding the facts [...]

Every single woman, the new campaign under the Women’s Asylum Charter focuses on the disparity in the treatment of women who are seeking asylum compared with women settled in the UK.
Asylum Aid believes a change of culture designed to produce a genuinely gender sensitive asylum system is urgently needed to ensure that women seeking asylum receive a [...]