Daily News Roundup – 2 May 2013

Categories: In The Media.

Assisted suicide ‘supported’ by religious Britons

BBC News

The majority of British people who follow a religious faith support the law being changed to allow assisted suicide, research suggests.

Find the perfect disability carer, like online dating

BBC News blog

A new internet service has been set up which uses online dating techniques to help disabled people find the perfect carer – but it has bigger ambitions.

BBC Children in Need unveils new grants strategy

Third Sector

BBC Children in Need aims to respond to applications more quickly and make itself as easy to approach as possible, says Sheila-Jane Malley, director of grants and policy.

Good charities spend more on admin but it is not money wasted

The Guardian

The popular idea that charities fritter money on unnecessary admin has been proven wrong.

New web addresses for NGOs and non-profits

The Telegraph

Two new types of web address will indicate that organisations are bona fide non-profits or NGOs, writes Brian Cute, chief executive of the Public Interest Registry.

End of life talks start at Thorpe Hall

Peterborough Telegraph

Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall hospice launch the city’s first Death Café on 13 May, saying no subject is off-limits from euthanasia to bucket-lists and Buddhist philosophy.

‘Hospice is like a holiday for Ava’

Sunderland Echo

A year ago Ava Roberts visited St Oswald’s Hospice for the first time. For Children’s Hospice Week, mum Judith tells Alison Goulding what the staff mean to her and her family.

Lottery winners roll up sleeves to transform garden at children’s hospice

Daily Record

Lottery winners with a combined fortune of almost £30 million picked up their trowels and watering cans to help transform the garden at Children’s Hospice Association Scotland’s (CHAS) Robin House.

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