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Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

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Supermarket Sainsbury's is inviting customers and colleagues to nominate their favourite local charity at their local store. The selected charities will receive a year's worth of fundraising and awareness raising support from that store. This is the fourth year that Sainsbury's has been running its local charity scheme.

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We are concerned about the current and projected impacts on disabled people of the changes to employment and support allowance; the ongoing issues with the work capability assessment; the reduction in local authority social care expenditure; the replacement of disability living allowance by personal independence payment; the closure of the independent living fund and the cap on housing benefit (Report, 10 May). These changes are having an adverse impact on the lives of disabled people and carer...  show all text

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Report reveals extent to which bottom 10% of households outspent their incomes in decade preceding financial crisis Britain's vulnerability to financial crisis was increased by a surge of borrowing by poor households driven by rising inequality, according to a study published on Tuesday . The report, prepared for the Resolution Foundation thinktank by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), found that while the whole of the UK was living beyond its means in the boom years  show all text

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The are many examples of philanthropists undertaking high-risk, privately funded programmes that catalyse great social benefit, reports Kurt Hoffman from the Institute of Philanthropy

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UK is the fourth-largest country for Twitter users in the world, with 80% accessing it with mobile phones Twitter now has 10 million active users in the UK, out of 140 million worldwide, the company has revealed – and 80%, an unusually high number, access it through mobile phones. The data about the UK, revealed for the first time by the company, indicates that 8 million who logged in to the company's site in the past 30 days did so from a mobile phone, compared to Twitter's global average of 5...  show all text

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Work and pensions secretary unrepentant that half a million can expect to lose payments under new regime Half a million people are set to lose their disability benefits under government plans, it has emerged. The work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, said he was determined to introduce radical reforms to disability allowances that could slash the annual cost by £2.24bn. Around 500,000 people in the UK who receive disability living allowance (DLA) could no longer be eligible for the re...  show all text

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vInspired Cashpoint provided by vInspired Cashpoint: Do you have a community project you want to get off the ground?

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Bottom 10% by income face lower wage increases and higher rates of inflation than richest, according to TUC analysis The UK's poorest families are facing the tightest income squeeze of any group due to higher rates of inflation and lower wage boosts, according to new analysis of official figures conducted by the Trades Union Conference (TUC). The bottom 10% of the country by income are facing effective inflation rates of 4.1% versus just 3.3% for the richest, while official Office for National ...  show all text

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Sir Stephen Bubb says charities report a hardening public attitude to poorer people, resulting in an increasing divide between 'haves' and 'have nots' The government's radical plans to cut billions from public services are in danger of creating a "forgotten Britain" where the plight of "whole swaths of society is getting worse but is invisible to the rest of us", according to Britain's charity chiefs. In a speech on Thursday, Sir Stephen Bubb, head of the Association of Chief Executives of Volu...  show all text

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Prime minister's flagship project losing initial goodwill as community groups suffer funding 'body blow', finds report David Cameron's flagship "big society" project is at risk of being derailed by savage cuts to grassroots voluntary groups and a collapse in trust among the very people the government expected to deliver its vision, according to an independent audit of the first two years of the initiative. The report concludes that the big society lacks a clear vision and strategy and is in da...  show all text

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ComRes survey finds seven out of 10 coalition peers are against plans to limit tax-free charitable donations Ministers are coming under renewed pressure to scrap controversial plans to limit tax-free donations to charity after a poll of its own peers found that seven out of 10 oppose the change. Opposition from the majority of Conservative and Liberal Democrat peers suggested by the ComRes survey follows a previous poll by the same company showing two thirds of coalition MPs also want the propo...  show all text

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Britain's most desirable villages are becoming little more than "ghettoes" for the rich, a former Government adviser on rural communities has warned.

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It's not an easy time to be a charity but many of them are turning to social media to connect with potential donors. Monty Munford reports on a growing trend.

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Andy Coulson held shares in News Corporation while he was David Cameron's head of communications at Downing Street, at a time when the Government was deciding whether to approve the company's takeover of BSkyB, it is revealed today.

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The Neighbourhood Challenge programme overhauled the idea of a needs assessment by mapping assets that already exist, writes NESTA's Alice Casey

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Candidate for mayor of Liverpool has been arrested on suspicion of faking signatures on nomination papers The British National party's candidate for mayor of Liverpool has been arrested on suspicion of faking signatures on his nomination papers. Mike Whitby, who is on Thursday's ballot paper for the directly-elected post, was held by police at his home in north Wales. Detectives arrived at the house at 7.30am but the candidate refused to co-operate and officer were unable to detain him until ar...  show all text

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