Tag: charity

Oscar Wylee chain fined $3.5-million by Federal Court for making false claims over its donations to charities.

To all you charity chuggers out there, It’s nothing you have done wrong. It is not you, it’s me... and it was London.

A man walking around Australia in a Stormtrooper outfit to raise money for charity, has been saved from a deadly snake bite by his armour.

HONEYMOONING NOMAD | If more men got health checks during Movember, if more people were prompted to volunteer to Crisis Relief, and if fewer women are targets of violence, isn’t raising awareness on its own achieving its goal?

Surviving a 15,000 km charity trek across Australia, in a Star Wars Stormtrooper get-up, means snacking on lizards, snakes and other delicious items from the local roadkill deli.

Public servants, private companies, individuals, kids and parents all heeded the National Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre’s ‘bat signal’ this week and joined their super forces in the fight against this debilitating disease.

Australian not-for-profit groups with a tech-savvy bright idea for making the world a better place could win some serious tech support from Google.

Australian man Tom Denniss has become the fastest person to circumnavigate the world on foot after running on average a marathon a day, every day, for 622 days. The 26,000 km charity run raised money for Oxfam.

THE EXPAT FACTOR | This week we talk to Amber Lavelle, a senior marketing communications officer for the UK's leading children's charity. She tells us about juggling 70 projects at a time, creating a strong brand and tells readers about why having an edge is important in getting a job ...

Zinzan Brooke, Lewis Moody and Geordan Murphy are amongst some of the international rugby stars attending a gala dinner on 11 July in London to support an Australian quadriplegic and raise awareness of spinal injuries.

Peter Singer AC, preeminent Australian moral philosopher and ethicist, is presenting a talk in Cambridge on Wednesday 1 May for Giving What We Can and the Cambridge Union on effective altruism — a new talk on how we can all best help others.

It doesn’t take much to perform an act of kindness this winter. ANNA BOW discovers she is rich in many ways.