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Skiing Santas back to shredding Maine slopes for charity

Santa is back to “sleighing” it on the ski slope.

English grandmother, aged 98, cycles 500 miles for charity

A 98-year-old English woman raised thousands of pounds for charity by cycling more than 500 miles for 80 days.

Pensioner, 70, rows 3,000 miles unassisted across the Atlantic

A grandfather has raised over half a million pounds for charity by rowing unassisted across the Atlantic.

People living in UK towns and cities 25 times more likely to die from air pollution than car crash, charity warns

People living in UK towns and cities are 25 times more likely to die from long-term exposure to poisonous air than a car crash, and those living in the south are at greatest risk, a charity has warned.

British charity: Scan younger women at breast cancer risk

Younger women with a family history of breast cancer should receive annual screenings to pick up the disease earlier, a British charity said.

Young at higher risk of asthma attack, says British charity

Young people are at a higher risk of having an asthma attack than any other age group living with the condition, the charity Asthma UK is warning.

British charity reports rise in takedowns of child abuse imagery

A British charity tasked with removing child abuse imagery from the Internet warned of a ‘horrifying’ increase in the amount of material it has had to take down over the past year.

UK charity rolls out radical plans to curb homelessness in capital

A London-based charity has rolled out plans to introduce sleeping pods to scores of homeless in the run-up to Christmas as record numbers of people have become rough-sleepers in the capital and other cities mainly as a result of government-sponsored cuts to social welfare budget.

Woman died from mitochondrial disease inspires charity

A woman who died from a rare genetic disease aged 22 has helped inspire a leading charity to provide a young adult support service.

British charity anticipates hundreds of thousands of calls for help during festive period

The Samaritans expects to receive hundreds of thousands of calls over the festive period, with figures revealing that one in three people who contacted the British charity on Christmas Day last year were seeking help with loneliness.

Charity vending machines dish out goats as gifts for poor

Buy a goat to donate to a poor family...from a vending machine?

Charity urges aid for sinking cities

Governments must provide ‘major’ investment in flood risk reduction to save coastal cities around the world, a charity said on Friday, as rising seas and sinking urban areas pose unprecedented threats to millions of homes.

Food bank use will soar after universal credit rollout, warns charity

The UK’s government plans to move three million people currently receiving tax credits and disability benefits on to universal credit from next April will trigger an explosion in food bank use, the Trussell Trust warned.

Malta detains second charity ship as death toll at sea rises

For the second time in a week, Malta has detained a humanitarian vessel that normally rescues boat refugees off the coast of Libya, where two shipwrecks have claimed the lives of as many as 200 people in recent days.

Chinese firms send food, hold charity iftar in Cairo

Dozens of Chinese companies on Sunday sent hundreds of food boxes to the needy people and held a charity iftar table in Cairo's Maadi district, sharing the joy of Egyptians during the holy month of Ramadan.