The Southern Africa Institute of Fundraising has organised a protest march to the National Lotteries Board on 27 January 2012, to highlight local non-profits' dissatisfaction with the administration of funding grants.

A memorandum will be handed to senior management, demanding clarity regarding grant criteria, and how and to whom funding is allocated

All interested parties are invited to join the march, which starts at 9am from Loftus Versveld in Pretoria, along Park Stree to the Lotto Offices at the corner of Arcadia and Hilda Streets.

Sheila McCallum Fundraising Online was again successful in the 2011 Apex Awards - scooping not one, but two, Awards for Excellence in Website Design when the winners were announced in July.

The Awards were for sites developed for the SA Federation for Mental Health and the Society of St Vincent de Paul.

The competition attracted over 3 300 entries – almost all of which were from organisations within the USA. Winning two awards indicates that South Africa is on a par with the best in the world.

Winners are entitled to display the Apex logo on their sites.