BBC News: fundraising news

Scottish charities launch a fundraising appeal in response to the growing humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

More than £700,000 is raised on the night in Northern Ireland in this year's BBC Children in Need fundraising effort.

Children in Need fundraising in the East achieves a record £1,765,774 and the money is still coming in.

BBC News website readers have been sending in pictures of their fundraising efforts for the BBC's Children in Need appeal.

Husband and wife fundraisers are unveiling a charity music CD for Children in Need which features Sir Terry Wogan.

Opera star Bryn Terfel heads a fundraising drive for the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama's new studios.

A fundraising concert is held in memory of a Kent teenager who was punched and kicked to death on playing fields.

Fundraisers reach the £3m target needed to secure the future of an award-winning theatre in Berkshire.

A new lifeboat station is officially opened on the Wirral, but the fund-raising continues.

A castle preservation campaign raises £10,000 from an event staged at the Prince of Wales' country home.

Millions of dollars are being raised and spent by both candidates. Find out who's ahead in the money race and where the cash is coming from with our guide to election finances.

In the first $1bn White House race in US history, how do the presidential candidates' fundraising efforts and campaign expenditures compare?

The first Hertfordshire air ambulance will be launched after local fundraising paid off.

A £2m fundraising campaign for a new lifeboat and station in Merseyside is boosted by Bond star Daniel Craig supporting the project.

US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama raised more than $150m in September, his campaign says.

A fundraising campaign is launched to save The English Cemetery in the Italian city of Florence.

The Army Benevolent Fund launches a new fundraising campaign to help meet the future needs of soldiers and their families.

A new community centre finally opens in Durham after eight years of planning and fundraising.

Cricketing hero Sir Ian Botham's latest fundraising walk against childhood leukaemia reaches Windsor Great Park.

A teenager killed at a south-east London bakery is being remembered a fundraising concert.