Visa Champions Female Entrepreneurs in 2019

As part of its ongoing commitment to support female entrepreneurs, Visa is launching a global initiative – She’s Next, Empowered by Visa – to encourage women small business owners as they build, sustain and advance their businesses. The global rate of female entrepreneurship has been increasing more quickly than that of male entrepreneurs,1 with more than 163 million women around the world starting a business since 20142. She’s Next will champion this growing trend, with additional support from leading small business advocates, including Square and Yelp. “Starting and growing a…

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Barnardo’s warns of the signs of sexual exploitation as Emmerdale child abuse story deepens

Barnardo’s is warning parents of the signs of sexual exploitation as the teacher/pupil abuse storyline between ITV’s Emmerdale characters Maya and Jacob deepens. In the soap, teacher Maya, (Louisa Clein) is in a relationship with David Metcalfe (Matthew Wolfenden), but she has been seen kissing and grooming 15-year-old Jacob, (Joe-Warren Plant), David’s adopted son. Jacob is shown as becoming increasingly vulnerable and confused. Anxious to impress her, he sends scheming Maya a topless selfie in the episode on Monday Jan 14. Young survivors of sexual abuse and Barnardo’s experts have…

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Kwik Fit and BTCC to raise funds for Children With Cancer UK over 2019 season

The UK’s largest motorsport championship and the UK’s leading automotive servicing and repair company today announce that they are joining forces over the 2019 season to raise funds for Children with Cancer UK. The announcement was made at the Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) stand at Autosport International, the first public event for the BTCC under the new title sponsorship for 2019.  Kwik Fit and the BTCC will be seeking to help Children with Cancer UK by coming together to harness the support of the race teams and…

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Sustainability-Minded Corporations Come Together To Announce New Convenient And Waste Free Shopping Platform

A coalition of the largest consumer product companies, along with international recycling leader TerraCycle, today unveiled a global, first-of-its-kind, shopping system called Loop™. The initiative was designed to change the world’s reliance on single use packaging, offer a convenient and enhanced circular solution to consumers, while securing meaningful environmental benefits. Announced at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, Loop will enable consumers to responsibly consume a variety of products in customized, brand-specific durable packaging that is collected, cleaned, refilled and reused. The content, if recoverable, will be either recycled or…

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Veg Power and ITV join forces to launch landmark ad campaign to get kids to eat more vegetables

Eat Them To Defeat Them is a radical new national advertising campaign that launched on Friday 25th January on ITV that aims to inspire kids to eat more healthily and help tackle rising childhood obesity.  Despite past campaigns 80% of primary school kids still aren’t eating enough vegetables and this ground breaking initiative looks to change that.   The campaign is being launched by a partnership between ITV and Veg Power and Eat Them To Defeat Them will engage with kids and parents in a new way, looking to reinvigorate how…

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