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Bowel Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) kicks off today and runs throughout April. As well as awareness-raising, the month includes a '1000 Get Togethers' fundraising campaign by Colon Cancer Concern (CCC).

Colon Cancer Concern's '1000 Get Togethers' initiative involves asking 1000 supporters to organise a get-together and raise funds for the charity.
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The Balance Charitable Foundation for Unclaimed Assets has announced its first grantmaking programme which will fund work focused on the needs of older people across the UK, particularly those over 75 at risk of social exclusion.

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The Midlands regional group and statutory special interest groups of the Institute of Fundraising are holding a joint seminar on 'routes to regional funding' in Birmingham on 21 April 2005.

Speakers at the event will include:

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• David Rayner,­ Policy Advisor and VCS Liaison Officer, Neighbourhood Renewal
  

Cross Border Arts' Funky Flamingo Club Project has won the Digital inclusion (disability) award at the eWell Being Awards held in London.

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Funders are in a key position to help promote awareness of the potential of collaborative working and to assist good practice, according to the National Council for Voluntary Organisations' (NCVO) Collaborative Working Unit (CWU).

The CWU recently conducted baseline research into funders' knowledge, understanding and awareness of collaborative working.
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Cisco and Charity Technology Trust (CTT) are partnering to present a series of free information and communications technology (ICT) seminars aimed at helping the charity sector make better use of technology.

The first series will comprise three free web-based seminars on the following
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The Big Lottery Fund has announced the first wave of funding within its new framework to deliver new funding programmes for 2005 - 2009, the first of which will be introduced later this year.

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The Charity Commission has warned the public that conmen are selling fake charity wristbands online.

Wristbands supporting causes such as anti-bullying, anti-racism and the recently launched Make Poverty History campaign have become very popular. As a result, conmen have lept on the (wrist)bandwagon and are selling fake charity wristbands.
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ChildLine has announced a year-long partnership with TM Retail, whose 1400 stores trade as Martin's, McColl's, Forbuoys and Dillons.

Through a combination of staff fundraising events and initiatives, and customer donations to on-counter collection boxes, the company hopes to raise over £100,000 for ChildLine.
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Bank of Ireland UK Financial Services has announced ChildLine as its chosen charity of the year for 2005 following a staff vote.

Launching the partnership, Roy Keenan, Chief Executive of Bank of Ireland UK Financial Services, announced a year-long series of fundraising events including sponsored firewalks, spooky sleepovers and marathons.