Happy Friday dear readers! Welcome once again to this week’s round up of the highlights in charity sector news.

Tattoos for grandma

Diary’s grandma’s ears perked up when she heard about a new charity scheme offering free tattoos for the elderly.

Irish charity Alone has teamed up with tattoo studio The Ink Factory to provide five of the charity’s elderly service-users with a tattoo of their choosing.

It is part of a project called Bucket Listers, a project that aims to empower older people by challenging stigmas that can arise as people age.

The five people will be tattooed on Sunday 9 September, which the charity is hoping will generate interest in the project and bring sponsorship and donations.

While Grandma Diary is keen to get an X-Ray Spex tattoo on her lower back, Grandpa Diary is happy with the YOLO ink he got on the lads’ holiday to Phuket five years ago.

Diary is a firm believer that old age is the best time to get a tattoo. It leaves you less time to regret it.

Stop bothering the ospreys, Paul

This week, in news about extremely niche civil offences, we beg to inform you that the RSPB has successfully fined a man for £300 plus £2,000 costs, for “recklessly disturbing ospreys” at Bassenthwaite in the Lake District.

Diary had originally assumed that "recklessly disturbing ospreys" were things that emanated from young gentlemen with too much time on their hands in the country, but not so, apparently.

According to Annabel Rushton from the Lake District Osprey Project, Paul Barnes “acted recklessly by taking a group of children under the nest whilst on a wildlife tour of his farm”.

“This resulted in the disturbance of the Bassenthwaite pair of ospreys, which were off their nest for 20 minutes which could have been detrimental to their breeding success,” she said.

Apparently the birds are worth £2m a year to the Cumbrian economy, so Diary can understand why they are closely guarded.

Anyway, it seems that Mr Barnes has been left with an owl in his pocket, as it were. Perhaps he'll have to dip into his nest egg.

Virginity auction

And finally, a reputable tabloid online newspaper has reported that a German flight attendant has raised money for charity by auctioning her virginity online.

Aspiring singer Mandy, 36 (no second name) received €250,000 (£223,000) through Cinderella Escorts from an “anonymous businessman”.

Mandy told the Daily Mail that she intends to use the proceeds of the auction to boost her career and help her family, leaving some over for charity. How much, and which charity, is nowhere made clear.

Apparently, we also learn, it was a close contest with the second highest bid coming from a lawyer at €240,000. The third was from a football player from Munich at €200,000.

So often do we read about footballers wasting their money on gambling and drugs, Diary is delighted to see a player trying to give some of his money to a good cause.

Mandy's pointed out that her age has probably driven up the price, and observed that her work had kept her "too busy for relationships". 

But look, each to their own. Diary hopes Mandy and her anonymous businessman reach the hoped-for heights of amorous intensity and maybe, even, find love.

However, Diary can’t help being depressed by the pitiful exchange rate.