# Third Sector website claims 'first online daily news service'

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/04/04/third-sector-website-claims-039first-online-daily-news-service039/
- Published: 2007-04-04T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

This week’s Third Sector magazine’s lead front page story reports that its redesigned
website offers “the UK’s first daily news service about charities and the voluntary
sector.” Unfortunately, the claim is about 10 years too late: UK Fundraising started
publishing at least daily updates to its news and content back in May 1997.
UK Fundraising,
published since November 1994, switched to daily updates when its founder Howard
Lake began operating it full-time in May 1997 after leaving Amnesty International
UK.

Looking back at the archives, it was not until [September/October 1997](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/news/archive/1997/10)
that the site started publishing at least one news item every day, but from May 
that year several items such training events, jobs, key dates, books, and new suppliers,
as well as news items, were being added each day.

If it is a daily email update that Third Sector refers to, then UK Fundraising was
running one back in 2002 together with a daily jobs and training events email alert.

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While Third Sector certainly has a broader focus than this site, UK Fundraising 
has always adopted a catholic approach to fundraising. So our daily news updates
for the last 10 years have covered [management, recruitment, law, technology, communications, governance, and finance](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/news/browse/0)–
many of the areas (or channels) covered by Third Sector.

Having published online for so long we’ve seen (and debunked) a number of claims
to have achieved an online first, but we’ll have this title back for ourselves please.
**
Response from Stephen Cook, editor, Third Sector**“Fundraising.co.uk has done a 
great job over the years, pioneering online news and other services to the fundraising
community. What we wanted to emphasise is that our new site is the first to provide
a comprehensive news service covering all the disciplines in the voluntary sector,
from fundraising to finance to governance to volunteering.”

12 April 2007

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