Month: October 2017

Facebook Offers Every UK Secondary School Digital Safety Ambassadors

Stuart Mitchell

Facebook has announced a landmark partnership with youth charities, Childnet International and The Diana Award, that scales their existing programmes to offer every UK secondary school dedicated digital safety ambassadors: young people trained to provide peer-to-peer support and lead online safety initiatives in the classroom. Facebook’s commitment could see tens of thousands of pupils in 4,500 secondary schools across the UK trained as Digital Leaders (Childnet International) or Anti-Bullying Ambassadors for online and offline bullying (The Diana Award) and provided with access to face-to-face training, dedicated online resources and forums.…

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Bodyform & Libresse launch #bloodnormal Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Leading global feminine care brand Bodyform (in the UK) & Libresse (rest of Europe) continues its mission to break down period taboos with the launch of #bloodnormal. In a world-first, the brand launches a global film which features the experience of periods, and period blood, openly and honestly in an attempt to normalise periods in mainstream culture. The Brand identified that periods are largely absent from mainstream culture and is leading the way to add positive period representation to the cultural map. The #bloodnormal film, created by AMV BBDO, follows…

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Celebrities & Icelandic Glacial Team Up To Aid Puerto Rico And U.S. Virgin Islands

Stuart Mitchell

Icelandic Glacial™, Ben Stiller’s Stiller Foundation and Cher today announced their partnership and plan to donate over 600,000 bottles of water to people across Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in response to the catastrophic hurricanes. Over 500,000 bottles are reaching Puerto Rico with the help of Save the Children. The donated water should begin to arrive within the coming weeks. “This tragedy has had a devastating impact on the communities, and water is one of the most basic needs to get everyone back on their feet,” said Jon…

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Tesco launches new eco-range

Stuart Mitchell

People are becoming more eco-conscious when it comes to using environmentally-friendly cleaning products for their homes. Unilever’s own report this year stated that ecological and sustainable items are growing at a faster rate than other products. With this in mind Tesco are looking to ecpand their ecological product base with a specific range named Eco Active. In the last year there has been a sharp rise in demand for eco-cleaning products with Tesco also seeing a near 45 per cent rise in sales. However a 2017 report by retail analysts…

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Hate has no home in Scotland Launches

Stuart Mitchell

The Scottish Government has joined with Police Scotland and the Crown Office (COPFS) to launch a new campaign against hate crime. ‘Hate has no home in Scotland’ launches during Hate Crime Awareness Week and will run until 26 November. It aims to increase public understanding of what hate crime is, and how to report it – for those who personally experience it and, importantly, bystanders to hate crimes. More than 5,300 cases of hate crime were reported in Scotland over the past year, with many other incidents going unreported. The…

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