Age Concern and Help the Aged have both made calls for the government to increase fuel payments for pensioners during the prolonged big freeze.

The William J Clinton Foundation has revealed is donor list for 2009, which includes many foreign countries, including Saudi Arabia, Norway and Oman, as well as the Elton John AIDS Foundation and Coca-Cola.

Lord Mandelson is set to hit Charities with a £20m tax bill by abolishing an exemption from music licensing rules. As a result, charities will be forced to abandon services for the elderly and children, which will now be too expensive to hold due to the tax.

Charlize Theron has teamed up with TOM shoes to design an exclusive range of shoes for charity. The proceeds will help children in her native South Africa.

A Sheffield charity that supports the homeless, Homeless and Rootless at Christmas (HARC) has been donated 276 meat pies by UK Snooker Championship winner, Ding Junhui,

What could be more heartening than the thought that the X-factor winner might not make it to Christmas no.1? The thought that a) it’ll be Rage against the Machine and b) they’ll be handing over the proceeds to charity.

Charity and music becomes ever-intertwined, with Lily Allen cancelling a charity gig, Robbie Williams claiming that he wasn’t even booked, and Peter Andre now busking for charity.

Yesterday, I was unfortunate enough to have to watch the God-Awful Arnold Schwarzenaegger in a God-Awful film about him trying to get a God-Awful present for his probably God-Awful son. That’s why I decided to go all-out for charity gifts this year.

Elton John and his partner David Furnish have sold off a huge array of designer clothing for the Elton John Aids Foundation. The sale, nattily called The Out of the Closet Sale 2009 saw items sold from £10 to £2000, and it was Versace that saw prices rocket the most.

NGO Action Aid has warned that a weak deal at the Copenhagen summit could mean disaster in Africa, as harvest yields are already set to reduce by 50% over the next decade due to climate change.