Income at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations rose by £1.7m last year, its latest accounts show. NCVO’s income grew from £5.4m to £7.1m in the financial year ending 31 March 2023, which included £3.8m raised from charitable activities and £2.2m from trading. The membership body said the increase could be mostly put down to
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To be dripping in diamonds usually means that one has reached the upper echelons of success. The sparkling stones often represent life’s milestones—a diamond ring may signify everlasting love, a diamond pendant can symbolize a significant work anniversary. But that’s changed in a lot of ways, thanks in large part to Pandora’s lab-grown diamond collections.
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Image Credit: John Angelillo/UPI/Shutterstock / Amy Sussman/Shutterstock Ariana Grande, 30, and Ethan Slater, 31, are “really happy” in their new romance, a source told Us Weekly. The singer and actor were seen at Disneyland this week and apparently enjoyed the memorable day with family and friends. “They went [to Disneyland] with a big group of
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The last several years have been quite good for Star Trek fans on the TV front, with shows like Discovery, Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks keeping Paramount+ subscribers entertained. The film side of the franchise, however, has been decidedly lacking, as there’ve been no Star Trek movies released since 2016’s Star Trek Beyond. However,
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The charity behind Parkrun has written to all the major political parties to ask them not to refer to the organisation in their campaigning activities.  Third Sector revealed this morning that the Charity Commission had written to Parkrun trustees after Alistair Strathern, the Labour Party candidate in next month’s Mid-Bedfordshire by-election, posted a promotional video
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Alice Nuttall (she/her) is a writer, pet-wrangler and D&D nerd. Her reading has got so out of control that she had to take a job at her local library to avoid bankrupting herself on books – unfortunately, this has just resulted in her TBR pile growing until it resembles Everest. Alice’s webcomic, writing and everything
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EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can tell you first that the new Mean Girls movie that Paramount has been prepping for Paramount+ is going theatrical. The release date is Jan. 12, 2024 – that’s the MLK 4-day holiday weekend. There will be a big marketing play here for the film. This is the second time in recent memory
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While a fairly quiet frame overall, there were some significant milestones this international box office session. To wit: New Line/Warner Bros’ The Nun II topped the $200M mark worldwide and Shah Rukh Khan’s Jawan became the highest-grossing Bollywood movie ever in India, overtaking the star’s earlier 2023 movie, Pathaan. The Nun II scared up another
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A fraudster who conned a football charity out of £200,000 has been jailed for almost three years. Fraser White, 24, of Maidenhead, Berkshire, defrauded the Football Foundation using inside knowledge gained from his roles as director of a football academy and as a ticketing executive at Reading FC, Reading Crown Court heard. From June 2020
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Perennially, there are new shows based on idiosyncratic characters. For whatever reason, the characters are usually quite eccentric, and a narrative is built around them using a particular idea as the central plot point. This format has been central to many shows, and the trick is to write compelling characters, and the more ambiguous they
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Azimut’s Magellano 60 can use HVOlution biofuel. Photo: Azimut Azimut staged a press conference at the Cannes Yachting Festival focused on its efforts to reduce environmental impact by lowering CO2 emissions. The shipyard presented the results of its efforts, certified by an independent scientific panel, and the new goals to be pursued with its partners:
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Image Credit: Gregory Pace/Shutterstock Angus Cloud‘s mom, Lisa Cloud,  reminisced about her son and his final days before his death on July 31, in a new interview with PEOPLE. The doting parent was looking over things in the late actor’s bedroom, which was reportedly filled with graffiti-covered walls that he created, when she talked about
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In September of 2022, I wrote a post called The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to NYT, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon. It got a lot of views, so it became a weekly feature, soon retitled The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists. In this feature, which I’ve been
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