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Local charities have been expressing their fears this week concerning charity funding cuts to be made by City of York Council. Council provided funding to local charities and voluntary organisations is set to be cut by £82,000.

York City Council have taken to their GeniUS! forum for the fourth time to ask: “How can footfall and transport be used innovatively to generate income and improve environmental sustainability in the city?”

Tonight the second episode of the new series of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding airs on Channel 4, and the controversy sparked by the show will doubtless resurface in its wake. We take look at the issues surrounding the show.

The promotion of linguistic and cultural diversity, as well as multilingualism, is to be celebrated, but it is easy to forget the advantages when it seems like the whole world speaks English.

New plans being drawn up by the Department for Work and Pensions, may mean that some long-term sick, and disabled will be forced to undertake unpaid work for a potentially unlimited time, or face benefit cuts.

This week celebrates the eleventh National Student Volunteering Week. Running from 20th to 25th February 2012, Student Volunteering Week 2012, led by Volunteering England and sponsored by Santander, raises awareness of volunteers in further and higher education.

New figures released today by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies reveal that the development of one in four children in the UK is being negatively impacted by problematic home and family lives.

Once: The year is 1954 in York and Billy Smart’s Circus has come to town!

Local entrepreneur and founder of music magazine, Soundsphere, Dom Smith, has been nominated for an award at the National Diversity Awards.

Malcolm Hayday, chief executive and one of the founders of Charity Bank, has decided to step down from the post in 2012 to hand over the reins to a successor.

A child loses a parent every 2.2 seconds, and it is estimated that there are more than 132 million children worldwide who have been orphaned by disaster, disease or poverty, or abandoned on the streets by their parents.

This week is Go Green Week as People and Planet are looking to raise awareness of climate change and pushing for people to look for greener alternatives in their lives.

World Cancer Day is being backed by a Facebook app which allows you to donate your status to help spread awareness of the single biggest killer.

As the cold really starts to bite this weekend spare a thought for 25 year old Jamie Potter who will be braving the icy weather and sleeping rough tonight in Hull to raise awareness for homelessness.

A new challenge has been posted on City of York Council and Science City York’s community forum – GeniUS! – asking for fresh ideas to aid older and vulnerable people in their own homes.

Charity, Shine, are to host their first ever Archie Mills Memorial Challenge this year.