Tag: Stonewall

Amazon opens AmazonSmile to registered UK Charities

Stuart Mitchell

From 31st of January, all eligible registered UK charities are invited to join AmazonSmile where millions of Amazon customers can raise money for charities, small or large, local or national, by shopping at smile.amazon.co.uk. Customers who shop with AmazonSmile can choose a charity to support before they start shopping and that charity will receive donations from Amazon at no additional cost to the customer or charity. Customers will find the same Amazon they know and love at AmazonSmile, enjoying the same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience –…

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Smirnoff Launches Next Chapter Of “We’re Open” Inclusivity Initiative

Stuart Mitchell

Smirnoff announces the next chapter of their “We’re Open” initiative. Bringing together leading non-binary artists and performers, together with LGBT Foundation, the campaign aims to spark conversation, create positive change in nightlife culture and lead a movement to make it a more open-minded and socially inclusive space. After having conducted research, Smirnoff identified that whilst 12% of millennials identified as transgender or gender non-conforming, society at large still lacked awareness and understanding of the non-binary community, with a lack of positive role models in mainstream media . Furthermore, with 3 out of…

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Stonewall and The Rainbow Project launch workplace partnership

Stuart Mitchell

Two leading LGBT charities – The Rainbow Project and Stonewall – are joining forces to support LGBT-inclusive employers in Northern Ireland. The partnership, announced on the 26th October, builds on an employers’ programme established five years ago by The Rainbow Project. With support from Stonewall, this work will be extended and strengthened, with the number of employers working on the programme in Northern Ireland set to increase from 10 to 40 in the first year. A new staff post has been created to deliver this work and, once appointed, they…

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Stonewall’s First Brand Campaign in Ten Years Asks British Public to #ComeOutforLGBT

Stuart Mitchell

While the LGBT community has seen great progress in recent years, Stonewall, the lesbian, gay, bi and trans equality charity, has released new research highlighting the shocking levels of hate crime and discrimination that LGBT people still face in Britain today. Based on YouGov polling of over 5,000 LGBT people, the research reveals: One in five LGBT people (21 per cent) have experienced a hate crime or incident due to their sexual orientation and/or gender identity in the last 12 months The number of lesbian, gay and bi people in…

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Premier League Announce Partnership With Stonewall

Stuart Mitchell

The Premier League announced at TeamPride’s Rainbow Laces Summit a strategic partnership with Stonewall to tackle abuse against LGBT people in football.  The initiative builds on the Rainbow Laces campaign which has been running of the past four years. Football is well renowned for having a problem with homophobic language, and in the most recent research 72 per cent of fans say they have heard homophobic abuse at live games. However, research conducted by ICM on behalf of Stonewall demonstrates that the problem isn’t just in football. Half of all…

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