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The Funding Network (TFN) reached a £3m milestone with its Summer Event held on 1st July, that brought pledges of over £47,000 for the five health projects taking part.

Since ...

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Philanthropy UK's regular column on ‘Green Giving’ for 2010 is a response to the superordinate challenge that climate change and other environmental issues present to us all. Though Philanthropy UK is cause...

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The ninth annual Absolute Return for Kids (ARK) fundraising gala dinner earlier in May raised an impressive £14.1m in one evening, though down from a peak of...

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Hong Kong based Chinese billionaire businessman and K.B.E. Sir Ka-shing Li is donating £5m to Oxford University, which adds to the £800m already raised by the ...

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Philanthropy UK's new regular column on ‘Green Giving’ for 2010 is a response to the superordinate challenge that climate change presents to us all. Though Philanthropy UK is cause neutral,...

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What do a Taiwanese vegetable stall holder, a Chelsea footballer and an American comedian have in common? Chen Shu-chu, Didier Drogba and Ben Stiller all appear in last month's 2010...

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Laurence Graff, society jeweller and one of Britain's richest men, is returning some of his wealth to one of the diamond supplying countries that helped create...

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Philanthropy UK's new regular column on ‘Green Giving’ for 2010 is a response to the superordinate challenge that climate change presents to us all. Though Philanthropy UK is cause neutral,...

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Entrepreneur and Kwik Save founder Albert Gubay is bequesting his £800m property empire to charity, fulfilling a ‘deal with God’ he made as a young man. In fact, he is...

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An intervention by the top investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett sets the tone for the theme of this latest round-up of philanthropy in difficult economic times. Buffett told an audience...

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