Charity
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Stina Jones' Daily Doodles
For those of you who missed the excitement last week – our good friend, freelancer Illustrator Stina Jones has finished her epic Daily Doodle project and completed her 365th illustration on Sunday 20th February, only a few weeks behind schedule...
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CARE International challenge IT sector
Leading overseas development agency CARE International is delighted to announce the launch of the first CARE IT Adventure Challenge exclusively for the IT industry. The challenge, taking place in Exmoor National Park on 11th June 2011, will see IT teams covering the distance of a marathon in a day by foot, bike and canoe. There will be 'mystery' challenges along the way, plus a one-hour bonus ...
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Squiddles launches out of love and loss
Squiddles is a new web store which has been launched by illustrator Matt Daniels, aka Stickypop, after his girlfriend Emma Wilkinson passed away from the Epstein-Barr virus on 9th July 2010. Squiddles was brought to life to take such a tragic, upsetting event and try to raise awareness of the virus and keep Emma alive through memory a...
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Rankin’s take on Lady Gaga’s meat fashion raises funds for THT
Acclaimed photographer Rankin offers his unique take on the ‘food as fashion’ craze sparked by Lady Gaga, with a quirky photograph of his wife Tuuli that will be auctioned off for HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT). Just as Gaga grabbed headlines worldwide with a dress made entirely from meat, Rankin shows Tuuli brandishing a knife and fork, naked save for a French-...
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St Joan of Arc sings for suppers
A charity providing international aid to children in some of the world’s poorest countries has received a welcome boost from a group of musical Glasgow schoolchildren. Tony Begley from children’s charity Mary’s Meals attended a presentation hosted by law firm Irwin Mitchell this week to receive the generous donation of £1,600 from St Joan of Arc’s secondary school. The children, wh...
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A Just Cause – Pitching for Partnership
Health PR in London is pleased to announce the winners of their latest pro-bono initiative A Just:: Cause - Pitching for Partnership. The three charities winning communications support in 2011 to the combined equivalence of £150,000...
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Many moustaches help EMO raise plenty of mo-ney this Movember
A 45 strong team at EMO, a full service localisation agency based in Bristol and Highworth, have abandoned their razors and donated their faces throughout the month of November to raise over £5,000 as part of the fourth annual Movember campaign, aimed at raising funds and awareness for prostate cancer around the globe. Movember is suppo...
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Michael Eavis Becomes Patron of the Bhopal Medical Appeal
English dairy farmer and founder of the Glastonbury Festival, Michael Eavis CBE has become the new patron of UK-based charity, the Bhopal Medical Appeal (BMA) which funds the award-winning, free Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal, India - site of the world's worst industrial disaster, the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak. Following the BMA's growing volunteer litterpicker presence ...
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Interview: Squiddles - In memory of Emma
Squiddles is a new web store launching soon by illustrator Matt Daniels, aka Stickypop, after his girlfriend Emma Wilkinson passed away from the Epstein-Barr virus on 9th July 2010. Squiddles was brought to life to take such a tragic, upsetting event and try to raise awareness of the virus and keep Emma alive through memory and through ar...
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Illustrators of Anna Goodson Management Will Work for Free
Artists who are on the books of Anna Goodson Management (AGM) – one of North America’s leading illustration agencies – are offering to work for free until the end of the year. ..









