Did you know that some of the world's leading technology companies will donate their products to UK charities?

To find out how to apply visit www.ctxchange.org

Organisations looking to go Green and save on energy bills can search over £1.2 billion in funds available as grants, loans or awards through the  Green Grants Machine

Search for funding to purchase hybrid vehicles, install solar panels, implement a recycling scheme in the workplace and much more!

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Although the members on this website will enable you to find a new home for most of your unwanted items, there will be occasions when they are not able to help.

However, there are plenty of other ways of finding them a new home. There are a number of sites providing a facility allowing you to give away items you no longer need to anybody who wants them.

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It's never been more important to nurture innovation and excellence among smaller charities, which are so often overshadowed by the big players of the voluntary sector. It is typically the smaller organisations that have the fresh thinking, flexibility and reach into communities that make the crucial difference to people's lives.

Eight charities are to install a new system to manage Gift Aid claims on items donated to their shops. The new software, from technology firm Merlin, is a development of a similar system by E-Productive that was launched after being piloted by Sue Ryder shops in 2006. The charities that will use the new system have not yet been named. The system was launched after a successful pilot scheme in selected shops run by Oxfam and Big C, the cancer research and support charity for Norfolk and Waveney.