World renowned Spanish opera singer Placido Domingo and opera diva Katherine Jenkins performed in Athens, Greece to raise funds to aid the conflict in Darfur.

The 66 year-old tenor and maestro, who celebrated 40 years in opera last month, sang with Mezzo Soprano Katherine Jenkins and the ERT State Symphony Orchestra, under the conduct of Eugene Kohn.

The concert, which was held to aid the children of the ongoing and much publicised humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan, was organized by Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders. Read on…

Prince Charles visited the eco-friendly charity Roots and Shoots recently to open their new eco-building, which is available for hire in London.

The Prince was shown around the wild gardens of the charity’s grounds by Roots and Shoots officials, and watched in awe as local children drew pictures of insects that flourish within the surrounding fauna. Read on…

Reports suggest that charity gambling in Norway has been ordered to an end by government officials, in an attempt to tackle an explosion of gambling addiction.

Charities, such as the Red Cross and the Norwegian Cancer Society, will have to find other ways to fund raise when gambling is taken over by the Norwegian state government, who have declared a monopoly on all slot machines, and have given volunteer groups, humanitarian organizations and sporting clubs until July 1 to remove their machines from the state’s bars, supermarkets, airports, gas stations and other locations. Read on…

The Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation and THE FELIX ORGANIZATION have teamed up with Equinox for a huge star studded online auction, Walk This Way for the kids.

The auction has so many attractive items up for bid it would be impossible to list them all.

Just some of the items include a day of golf with Mark Wahlberg and Joe Pesci, a batting lesson with Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz, a tour of Robot Chicken with Seth Green, an audition for a role in Entourage, a ticket to The Police’s Soundcheck party and a casting session with The Sopranos’ casting director Sheila Jaffe. Read on…

 

Make Poverty History is on again this year in Australia, in the form of the Zero Seven Concerts, and organisers Reach and The Oaktree Foundation have teamed up to get the message out on the street.

Headlining the road trip gigs will be Missy Higgins, Evermore, Little Birdy, Dallas Crane, Blue King Brown, Antiskeptic, Borne, Bliss n Eso, Guy Sebastian, True Live, Custom Kings, Bias B, Jess Mc Avoy and Symbiosis.

Also accompanying the bands around Australia will be 500 hand-picked Make Poverty History young Ambassadors, spreading the word about the mission at the heart of the Zero Seven Concerts. Read on…

Cast members from the 42-year long-running TV saga Days of Our Lives are volunteering their time to get involved in a charity event in the US.

Actors Bryan Dattilo (Lucas Roberts), Martha Madison (Isabella “Belle” Black Kiriakis), Rachel Melvin (Chelsea Benson), Blake Berris (Nick Fallon) and Darin Brooks (Max Brady) just to name a few, will participate in the first ever Taylors Youth Association Days into Night Celebrity Charity Event. Unfortunately Jensen Ackles, aka Dean Winchester from Supernatural, won’t be in attendance, even though he once played Eric Brady in Days of Our Lives. Read on…

Tony Blair bought a rose from charity collectors Charlotte and Deborah, outside 10 Downing St to support Alexander Rose Day.

Both the soon to step down British Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition, David Cameron, came out in support of the charity day, which was officially held on June 20. Read on…

Vodafone McLaren Mercedes racing driver Lewis Hamilton has sold his go-kart in a charity auction on eBay.

Bidding closed at £42,100 on June 19, for F1 driver Hamilton’s Vodafone McLaren Mercedes go-kart.

McLaren sponsors had arranged the more than successful auction of the kart to raise money for the baby charity Tommy’s. Read on…

Six people died in a charity event tragedy, originally held to benefit Cars For Kids.

Texas based Brisbane born drag-car racer, Troy Warren Critchley, crashed into a crowd of spectators at the Cars For Kids drag racing charity event in Tennessee, killing six people.

The Pro Mod driver Critchley, who has raced in the US since 1998, suffered minor injuries, and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

He was not charged by police, over the incident. Read on…

The two princes, Harry and William hope that a charity concert in tribute to their late mother, Princess Diana, will soften the voices of her critics and remind people of all the good she gave to the world.

The boys’ sentiments were made public just after the new book, The Diana Chronicles, detailing Diana’s life examined through the eyes of Tina Brown, hit the shelves. Read on…

Former gospel singer turned pop diva, Mariah Carey, is set to headline the One Mighty Party charity concert in Europe, a spectacular festival of music and dance to benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

Miss Carey will perform a set of six dance remixes at One Mighty Party, part of the One Mighty Weekend gay and lesbian dance party events presented by Johnny Chisholm.

Also featuring on the night will be the comedic stylings of D-list star Kathy Griffin and a main stage performance by Grammy award winning disco diva Donna Summer. Read on…

Yoko Ono has released the rights to her husband’s classic track, ‘Imagine’ to Amnesty International.

Since the famous Beatle, John Lennon, was murdered in 1980, his legacy of music, in particular the world renowned song for peace, ‘Imagine’, has been highly sought after by numerous charities and various campaigns, but Yoko Ono has kept it well guarded, until now. Read on…

After being forced, released and then forced again to spend a couple of nights in the lock up, Paris Hilton has made a grand gesture, stating that she is going to improve her life and her reputation by doing charity work.

In a phone interview, from Paris’s LA jail suite, with Barbra Walters, Miss Hilton made the claim that she has seen the error of her ways and wants to be a good role model for young girls everywhere, by possibly doing work for breast cancer or multiple sclerosis charities. Read on…

375 men and 149 women were celebrated for their services to the community yesterday as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Australian rock legend, the late Billy Thorpe (front man for Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, best known for the track ‘Most People I know, Think That I’m Crazy’) headed the list of Australians who received awards for their tireless charitable work.

His widow accepted the Honour on his behalf, given to Thorpe for his contributions to music. Read on…

The CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America) honored U2’s Bono, and wife Ali Hewson, as a special tribute to their humanitarian work through the eco friendly and everyday affordable clothing line, Edun.

Bono and Hewson didn’t attend the night, instead sending a video thank you message to the industry for supporting Edun’s mission to create a lifeline between the fashion world and the Third World. Read on…

One thousand dollars of money raised for charity, by dedicated school kids was recently stolen.

On a school weeknight, thieves broke into the principal’s office at St. John the Baptist School in St. Louis, Missouri, a Catholic Elementary School with students ranging from pre-school through to eighth grade.

The crooks made off with over a thousand dollars of charity money, whilst also crushing the eager spirits of the students who had worked hard in raising the funds.

However, in a small turn of fate, the day after the robbery, Liam Stacey, a seventh grader who had been soul struck by the school’s misfortune dipped into his own pocket money and donated a little more than four hundred dollars of cash. Read on…

Nelson Mandela’s 89th birthday will be a massive charity celebration playing host to a Fifa soccer match, some high standing celebrity rock and pop stars, and maybe even a reformation of a formerly disbanded girl band. Read on…

Hugh Grant has donated an annual scholarship of £12,840 to his former school, Latymer Upper School, inspired by his late mother, Fynvola Grant.

Mr Grant, a graduate of Oxford University, made the decision to set up the scholarship after visiting the school in March this year.

Adding weight to his decision was the fond memory of his mother who had taught children in West London state schools for 30 years but died of pancreatic cancer in 2001. Read on…

Richard Branson, Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman took a ride through Africa’s dirt tracks on the weekend, to deliver a first batch of motorcycles to Africa, for the Riders for Health charity.

The motorcycles will enable villages and small communities in Kenya to access seriously needed medical support and supplies.

Fund raising was done to purchase the Honda C10 motorcycles, through Branson’s billion dollar Virgin enterprise, Virgin Atlantic. Read on…