Charity and Voluntary Sector

HLHomeless Link's election podcast, detailing how the 4 ‘major parties’ will deal with issues relating to housing & homelessness if they are invited to form a new government, was the most viewed UK non-profit channel on Wednesday 28 April.  The podcasts were also the 36th most viewed global non-profit channel. 
 
Homeless Link asked its 500 member agencies and their service users to come up with the 3 questions they would most like to ask the homelessness & housing spokespeople for the 4 ‘main parties’. 

It collated the responses and submitted the questions to the parties.  Labour and Conservative spokespeople agreed to be recorded, while the Liberal Democrats and Green Party provided a written response.
Press release ~ Listen to the podcasts here.
 
TS – Cancer UK: Golf legend Seve Ballesteros is asking golfers across the UK to support the first ever ‘Seve Summer’ to help him raise over £300,000 towards life-saving research into cancers of the brain.  

The new initiative is part of a fundraising drive for the Seve Ballesteros Foundation’s partnership with Cancer Research UK, which launched last December and hopes to raise £1m in its first year.
 
‘Seve Summer’ teed off on the 1 May and runs throughout the summer. It is a chance for golf clubs & golfers across the country to show their support for Seve in his battle against brain cancer, by raising vital funds to help beat the disease.
Press release ~ Brain tumours ~ Seve Ballesteros Foundation ~ Cancers of the brain
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