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		<title>MS Research Charity Fan Page on Facebook</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2009/05/ms-research-charity-fan-page-on-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 11:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ MS Research has launched a Fan Page on Facebook in the non-profit category. Choose the category carefully: first click on institution then non-profit. Charities in the UK cannot yet use the Causes application for secure donations but there is always a way around this and I am very happy to share this with you.
Once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New design and same dedication as ever!</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2009/01/new-design-and-same-dedication-as-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbit</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The website of the charity has a new layout, a new design and some new volunteers. The need for help is as poignant as ever. Reports of dramatic falls in charitable giving are overblown; volunteering should not be depleted as time and commitment are two things that are needed. That is also giving. Volunteers are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s going on here then?</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/06/whats-going-on-here-then/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve put off updating the web program running CharityBlog for about as long as we can. The next version has some significant changes in how categories are managed, which could be fun, and means that the design templates need updating too.
Apologies for any weirdness you encounter in the next few pages - well any weirdness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 UK groups close in on Big Green Challenge £1m</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/04/100-uk-groups-close-in-on-big-green-challenge-1m/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time has come to announce the 100-strong shortlist of UK groups competing  to earn a share of the million-pound Big Green Challenge prize fund.
The big green ideas shortlisted range from a ‘Carbon Watchers’ club to  monitor CO2 emissions in Yorkshire and a Sussex prison’s bio-fuels production  scheme, to the creation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handcrafted information from Malvern</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I included an item in this week&#8217;s VolResource email newsletter on the government&#8217;s &#8216;Power of Information Task Force&#8217; before I had a chance to read the speech from minister Tom Watson. This amuses me for a number of reasons.
Firstly the effort that has gone in to giving web links to as many items in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Green Challenge open for applications</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Big Green Challenge from NESTA is a £1 million prize fund that challenges people to work together to develop and implement new approaches that will lead towards a 60% reduction of carbon emissions in their communities.
The Big Green Challenge is only open to not-for-profit groups.  Examples of eligible groups include community co-operatives or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteers Urgently Required</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VOLUNTEERS URGENTLY REQUIRED
FOR A COLLECTION in AID of the MS RESEARCH CHARITY
at THE MALL CRIBBS CAUSEWAY near Bristol
on FRIDAY 18TH and SATURDAY 19TH JANUARY 2008
The collections will take place all day on both of these days, and if you are able to help for a couple of hours, please contact:
BRIAN PAGINGTON
on Tel: Home 01454 320141
Tel: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Launch of New Design for MS Research Charity</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/10/launch-of-new-design-for-ms-research-charity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbit</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I have published a new design for the MS Research charity website. It is using a free template from D. Carter who gives away some of his designs on his own site or with others on the Open Source Design. I provide the work free and I have been a volunteer for many years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a lot of spam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two thousand spam comments caught by the Akismet spam filter since we started using it on CharityBlog 3 months ago. That&#8217;s an average of around 20 a day. If any real comments got trapped by mistake, apologies, but we do review the whole *** lot.]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Britain&#8217;s Everyday Heroes</title>
		<link>http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/07/finding-britains-everyday-heroes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched his own book, &#8216;Britain&#8217;s Everyday Heroes: The Making of the Good  Society&#8217;, which tells the stories of 33 individuals whose commitment to a cause  or campaign has inspired him. East London charity Community Links helped with  the book and will receive the royalties.  And apparently [...]]]></description>
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