One of our Donation4Charity friends has just embarked upon a 400km cycle across Kenya in aid of a selection of different cancer charities. Jess Markwood, who is not just a fitness guru but also an ace poker player, will be keeping us up to date of her amazing journey. So far Jess has raised just under an amazing £5,000, so we asked Jess a few questions before she headed out into the unknown to complete this epic journey.

Action Aid UK is asking for your help to stop a new tax loophole that could end up costing poor countries billions. The government is planning to allow big businesses a much easier way to dodge their taxes thanks a new loophole that could cost poor countries up to £4 billion and the UK £1 billion!

Everybody loves the Star Wars based Volkswagen adverts, right? Or maybe it's just me, having been an avid collector of the figures back in the day, these adds were the perfect homage to my early years trying to 'use the force'. It never really paid off for me, as even though the pen is my current weapon of choice, I reckon I would have been a dab hand with a lightsaber!

WSPA charity officials are pleased to announce that thankfully two of the three recently rescued bears have fully recovered from their injuries sustained whilst bear baiting. The third bear is still being kept in the quarantine as her muzzle injuries have not healed completely.

Over 100 'pink ladies' drove decorated tractors through Norfolk in July 2011, raising a whopping £36,000 for Cancer Research UK. The annual Ladies' Tractor Road Run was conceived by Annie and John Chapman to raise funds for the Join the Fight campaign, and thanks to this amazing event a special treat is now in store for Annie!

International Alert will be celebrating International Women’s Day on Thursday 8th March 2012, with an evening of fantastic female singers getting together to recognise women’s critical role in building peace around the world.

Amnesty International UK will be meeting at Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday 11th February in support of the Global Day of Action. This demonstration for a human rights revolution is a peaceful protest.

The Journal has just voted the Merlin charity into their top 25 in the world!

Figures just in from the NSPCC charity show that from Christmas Eve 2011 to January 4th 2012 there was a 19% rise in the number of calls made to Childline compared to the previous year. Over this period almost 50,000 calls were made by children looking for support over the festive season, with a quite staggering 50% increase on Christmas Day calls compared to the previous year

Action Aid charity officials are still working hard on the front line of the devastating flooding that still effects Thailand and Cambodia 5 months on. The flooding, the worst seen in both countries for decades, has affected nearly seven million residents as people are forced from their homes by overflowing water.

Drilling Plans Do Not Address Barriers to Spill Response Says WWF. 

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) welcomes Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s announcement this morning of a new initiative to address ‘short-lived’ pollutants that contribute to climate change – but warned that the primary effort in reducing dangerous climate changing emissions has to remain on achieving rapid and deep cuts to carbon dioxide emissions.

American companies and consumers are inadvertently contributing to Indonesian rain forest and tiger habitat destruction by buying toilet paper and other tissue products made with fiber from Asia Pulp & Paper.

The Sumatran elephant has been downgraded from “endangered” to “critically endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) after losing nearly 70 percent of its habitat and half its population in one generation, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced today.

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species changed the Sumatran elephant's status.

The Freshwater Trout Aquaculture Dialogue today released the final draft of its global standards for certifying farmed trout. 

Eight rhinos found dead in one day after a year of record losses

Greater one-horned rhinos start 2012 on a positive note.

A new report documents a tiger sanctuary under threat from deforestation.

One of Asia Pulp & Paper’s (APP) suppliers is clear cutting its widely advertised tiger sanctuary in Sumatra, Indonesia, an investigation by a coalition of environmental groups finds.