Charity

An exhibition and charity auction of original works and prints donated by fourteen artists in memory of Carlos Pacheco raised €3250 (over $3500) for the Spanish ALS Association (adELA) last weekend at the 41st edition of Comic Barcelona. The exhibition showcasing the works prior to auction was entitled Gracias Carlos! The auction took place over the festival weekend, March 31 to April 2. On Twitter the festival issued thanks, saying (translated): “3250 thousand thanks. “€3,250 raised at the auction in honor of Carlos…

An audacious plan to create a National Trust for grassroots music venues across the UK will come one step closer to fruition at midnight on Thursday.When the curtain comes down on the Music Venue Trust’s (MVT) #OwnOurVenues fundraising drive, it is expected to have raised close to £2.2m, a hemi-demi-semiquaver away from the £2.5m that it set out to achieve.The campaign was launched in response to the statistic that 35% of grassroots music venues (GMV) have closed in the past 20 years.Mark Davyd, the chief executive of the…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Reflecting a nationalist populist turn in the UK, international development aid must now demonstrate its contribution to the 'national interest' rather than benefitting those in need in Africa. That's according to a new study, led by the University of Portsmouth, which showed that a nationalist and…

Last Updated: February 16, 2023, 13:41 ISTMahindra XUV400 Special Edition (Photo: Mahindra)The one-off Mahindra XUV400 EV is a result of collaboration between the brand's chief design officer, Pratap Bose, and fashion designer, Rimzim DaduMahindra’s ultra-exclusive edition of the XUV400 e-SUV caused quite a stir when it recently fetched a whopping Rs 1.75 crore at an auction. The automaker had announced the creation of a very special, one-of-a-kind edition of the XUV400 electric SUV, for charity auction last year. The…

UK-based tattoo artist William Langford is aiming to ink all 151 original Pokémon in 2023, with money raised going to charity. “It’s been a strange time for everyone since Covid and now the cost of living has gone up,” Langford told the BBC. “ spend the year doing something good for people/animals”. Langford, who has a tattoo studio in Suffolk, has already inked eight Pokémon on customers including Bulbasaur, Slowbro, Mew, Snorlax, Cubone and Pikachu with another seven already confirmed. “I’m aware many animals got…

Jony Ive once designed a limited edition Leica camera for charity, but he worked on a far lower-tech product for the UK charity Comic Relief's Red Nose Day. In fact, the famed ex-Apple designer came up with a new version of the Red Nose itself, designing a model that transforms from a flat "C" shape into a honeycomb paper sphere. It's a key part of Comic Relief's annual charity broadcast March 17th on several BBC channels.  In a short video (below), comedian Diane Morgan jokingly describes it as "the most perfect nose in…

Image via Warner Bros. Pictures James Gunn might be able to turn the current negative narrative on its head at some point in the future, but being associated with Joss Whedon, even to the extent of rumors and nothing more, is an infamy that the Guardians of the Galaxy filmmaker might never live down. Speaking of Justice League and the drama surrounding it, Warner Bros. has recently blocked a charity screening of the movie in Ireland, making sure that everybody knows the kind of company that produces their…

Image via Warner Bros. Despite all the campaigns, petitions, and hashtags, it’s become patently clear that Warner Bros. has no interest in continuing, resurrecting, restoring, or concluding the SnyderVerse, with HBO Max’s four-hour version of Justice League the end of the line. That became even clearer when James Gunn and Peter Safran made the dismantling of the original mythology one of their first acts of business, with Henry Cavill unceremoniously tossed out on his ass mere weeks after celebrating his…

Amazon is shutting down an in-house charity that gave customers the opportunity to direct a small amount of their purchases to a wide range of nonprofits, from large hospitals to modest horse farms, saying the impact "was often spread too thin."The move was announced on the company's blog on Wednesday. It comes as Amazon undertakes 18,000 layoffs - the largest retrenchment in its history - but a company spokesperson said the decision was not a cost-cutting measure.Amazon introduced AmazonSmile a decade ago, as it sought…

Amazon claims that AmazonSmile has donated $400 million to U.S. charities.Image: David Ryder (Getty Images)Amazon is set to shutter its charity program AmazonSmile next month. The move comes as the company lets go of thousands of employees as the e-commerce giant looks to cut cuts. Amazon’s AmazonSmile is a charity program where the company would donate donate 0.5% of the price of eligible products at smile.amazon.com. The program has been advertised as an easy way to donate to a user’s favorite charity simply by buying…