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SPAIN has sent oxygen cannisters and ventilators to India to help the stricken sub-continent cope with its devastating Covid-19 epidemic, the European Commission has revealed.

A MIXED online and in-person awards ceremony for the 'Top 100 Women Leaders in Spain' saw everyone from Paralympic sporting greats to national politicians, artists and writers through to chief executive officers...

TAKE your pooch for a stroll and raise money for guide dogs – or if you don't have a woofster of your own, get hiking and just pretend there's an imaginary friend on a leash next to you.

FOR the second year running, the Valencia region's massive March Fallas fiestas are off the agenda due to the pandemic, but celebrations are still happening somehow or another – firework displays are still due to...

WHAT if you could win prizes and make charity donations without dipping into your purse just for recycling your plastic bottles and drinks cans? National waste management company Ecoembes wants to find out, and is...

A NATIONAL Alzheimer's charity is urging Spaniards and tourists to send them their old peseta notes and coins so they can cash them in for research into this devastating neuro-degenerative condition.

AFTER nearly a century of helping out UK nationals falling on hard times in Spain, the British Benevolent Fund has launched a collection for its work in supporting those who have found themselves with little or no...

ITALIAN authorities have ordered a Spanish charity boat to be released a month after it was seized off a Sicilian port and its crew accused of 'assisting illegal immigration'.

AID workers on a boat seized by Italian authorities could face between four and seven years in jail for 'human trafficking', forcing the charity to seek help from the Spanish government for the first time in its...

OXFAM in Spain has reported over 1,200 subscribers having cancelled their membership and ceased their donations after hearing of the scandal involving aid workers exploiting young women in Haïti following the 2010...

A CHURCH-RUN charity based in Madrid has launched a mobile hairdresser's, barbershop and shower unit for homeless people and for those who cannot afford a trim and a clean-up.

According to the latest data, 24.3% of Spanish adults regularly donate to an NGO, a figure that is 4.7 points higher than in December 2014..