Month: September 2017

Digital Mums and Iris launch next stage of #WorkThatWorks initiative

Stuart Mitchell

Digital Mums, who aim to help mothers achieve their perfect work/life balance for the good of businesses everywhere,  has launched the next stage of its #WorkThatWorks initiative. The ‘Clean Up The F Word’ Campaign is a nationwide iniative which aims to change perceptions of flexible working in business. The Campaign has been designed with creative agency Iris as part of a pro-bono partnership and plays on people’s assumptions that the ad may be talking about another “F” word. Nikki Cochrane, co-founder Digital Mums says: “It is time we stopped seeing…

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Grandparents Plus & Family Lives launch kinship carer campaign in Trafalgar Square

Stuart Mitchell

National charities Grandparents Plus and Family Lives, with the support of the Big Lottery Fund, have launched a social experiment video in the hopes of lifting the nation’s blindfold and making kinship carers more visible.  Social change company Shape History were commissioned by the charities to create a two and a half minute social experiment video to spearhead their kinship care campaign, highlighting the important role kinship carers play in the lives of the young. There are roughly 200,000 children under the guardianship of kinship carers in the UK. Kinship…

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Meet the winners of the 2017 Global Goals Awards

Stuart Mitchell

The Global Goals Awards highlight the role girls play in changing their lives and in making progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This year, the Awards honoured outstanding activists or campaign groups who have demonstrated a positive impact in people’s lives and who inspire others to accelerate progress towards the SDGs. Winners were chosen from finalists in each of the categories, and voted in by the SDG Advocates and Melinda Gates. The awards were announced during the UN General Assembly at a Global Goals Awards dinner on September…

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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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Srishti Bakshi begins her #billionsteps for a safer India for Women

Stuart Mitchell

Srishti Bakshi, the Founder of CrossBow this week embarked on her pan India walk with team Crossbow, covering 3800 kms over 260 days from Kanyakumari to Srinagar. The walk began from Vivekananda College, Kanyakumari (Tamil Nadu). The walk is aimed at creating awareness across India for women’s safety and empowering them through digital and financial literacy. UN Women’s Empower Women Initiative is dedicated to empowering women to achieve their full economic potential by inspiring both men and women to become to become advocates, change makers and leaders in their community. You…

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