Tag: ICM Unlimited

Local charities could receive £1 billion in deposits from cans and bottles

Stuart Mitchell

One in five people (20%) using a UK-wide deposit return system would donate deposits they’d paid on drinks cans and bottles to charity all of the time, according to a new survey carried out by ICM Unlimited and published on 30 May by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE). This could result in annual donations of more than £1 billion to good causes. A further 19% of respondents said they would donate their deposits most of the time, and more than a third (34%) would donate at least some…

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You Don’t Look Like A Lesbian: Asylum Aid highlights the difficulties faced by victims of sexual violence when seeking protection in the UK.

Stuart Mitchell

When Nina (not her real name) went into her interview she was alone. Having been beaten because of her sexuality, and raped by her own father, Nina was forced to flee the only home she ever knew. When she went to the UK authorities she thought she had found help. But they wouldn’t believe her. And she had nobody to advise her on what to do. Adding to a growing list of evidence of unfair questions being put to vulnerable people seeking protection in the UK, the charity Asylum Aid…

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