Butterflies suffered in last year's wet and cold weather, having their worst year since 1976, a charity says.
BBC: Butterflies suffered in cold and wet 2012, says charity
Older people should be encouraged to move into smaller homes to help tackle the "housing crisis", a charity says.
Cuts are "destroying" volunteering and undermining the government's "big society" vision, a charity boss says.
Plans to overhaul England's primary maths teaching would be "too much too soon" and could leave many pupils "by the wayside", a numeracy charity says.
Inmates at a Devon prison are spending up to 20 hours a day in their cells because of a lack of activities, a reform charity says.
Most children are registered with a family doctor, but Fizza Qureshi, who runs Project London for Doctors of the World, a charity, says this is getting harder as practice managers insist on proof of status first.
Government plans to allow nursery staff and childminders to look after more children have drawn "a huge and angry response" from parents, says a charity.
BBC: Huge and angry response to childcare plans, says charity
Yulia Averyanova of Perspektiva, a Russian charity, says that Mikhail Terentiev and Vladimir Krupennikov, two former Paralympians now elected to the Russian Duma (parliament) have helped change attitudes.
Andrew Wallis, chief executive of Unseen, a human trafficking charity, says concrete steps need to be taken to save vulnerable children.
The MIND mental health charity says a shortage of beds means there is no space for people who need urgent help.
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"We were a very good charity but not a good business, " says Kassalow.
The charity says this poses a huge challenge for the NHS in planning better services.
The Fields in Trust (FIT), a UK charity that protects recreational spaces, says funding is essential - but it is important not to forget about the fields themselves.
The publication of the survey coincides with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and the charity says the Paralympics have a crucial role to play at a time when attitudes towards disabled people are getting worse.
BBC: London 2012: Paralympics divide opinion, survey suggests
"Many small businessmen complain that as soon as you start to make some money, the leading mullah will come to you and ask for a contribution to his local charity, " says an opposition economist, who declines to give his name.
The trend of English jurisprudence these days is to weight the claims of children and families a bit more heavily than immigration enforcement, says Dave Stamp, manager of ASIRT, a legal charity based in the city.
"She wants to know the human dimension, what impact a project will have on people's lives, " says Jim Storm, a consultant who has been her charity scout since 1997.
Complaints about landlords in England have risen by more than a quarter in recent years, the charity Shelter says.
Now one charity says it wants to start a new service - a national helicopter dedicated to transporting sick children between hospitals.
Mervyn Barrett in Lincolnshire, who resigned in June from Nacro, a charity that works at reducing criminal offending, says he worries about fund-raising all the time.
Although hemiplegia cannot be cured, the charity HemiHelp's website says a lot can be done to minimise its effects - and much of that through play-based activities.
The charity says those already suffering now face a real threat of becoming extinct.
BBC: Butterflies suffered in cold and wet 2012, says charity
The charity says this is one reason why a quarter of children with type 1 diabetes are only diagnosed once they are already seriously ill with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a life threatening condition that needs immediate specialist treatment in hospital.
Les Hems, research director of the Institute for Philanthropy, another new charity, says donors should be allowed (as in America) to hand over capital to a charity while still enjoying the income and tax relief until death, when the charity gets the whole lot.
Leonard Cheshire - a disability charity which has been campaigning on transport accessibility - says 2020 is "later than we would have liked".
Reprieve, a legal charity that works with people facing the death penalty, says the men were subjected to beatings and electric shocks - in one case administered to the testicles - and threatened with guns held to their heads.
Thousands of children are being unofficially excluded from school, and official statistics showing a drop in exclusions are misleading, says the children's charity Barnardo's.
Four days after the event, small villages just ten kilometres (six miles) from Bhuj had not been reached, says an official of Oxfam, a British-based charity.
"Charity auctions are tricky, " says Celia Roady, a Washington, D.
On February 26, Penn State's vice president told Curley, the athletic director, to contact Sandusky, alert child welfare authorities and inform Second Mile, the charity Sandusky founded for disadvantaged children, a purported e-mail says.
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