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Dyslexia Action has appointed Phil Wormley as the its new Head of Fundraising. He joins after three years at Marie Curie Cancer Care where he managed the new business team and then worked as Acting Head of Corporate. Before that he worked for the National Autistic Society and NSPCC.
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SOS Children's Villages stopped all direct mail activity during 2007 - cold, warm, email - and reports that its annual income is about £3.4 million, about three times what it was raising five years ago.
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Italian caffe restaurant and foodshop Carluccio's has raised £67,033.90 for Action Against Hunger from an auction and from sales of the company's most popular dish, penne giardiniera.

The auction took place at the launch party for Carluccio's flagship caffè, deli and food shop on Garrick Street, Covent Garden in September.
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Edinburgh-based marketing company MediaMat is offering six charities free advertising to students on the mousemats that it supplies exclusively to 10 universities in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The mousemats are used at all the student computing terminals, representing a potential audience of over 150,000 students.
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Cancer Research UK is restructuring its communications, information, fundraising and supporter marketing functions to support future growth.
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The Fundraising Standards Board has published its first full adjudication on a complaint about fundraising. The complaint against direct mail by Cancer Research UK was not upheld.
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