Day: 23 February 2018

Joe Public, OSAAT & Always Launch Never Unsanitary Pads

Stuart Mitchell

Millions of adolescent South African school girls cannot afford sanitary pads. This results in many of them missing up to a week of school every month.  One School At A Time (OSAAT) is a registered non-profit organisation that believes that an education can be the solution to our country’s socio-economic challenges. Girls missing school because of a lack of access to sanitary pads is just one of the many different challenges OSAAT deals with. But if this keeps female scholars from full attendance, it hinders not only their own potential but…

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PrideAM describes as “shameful”, the lack of creative and media brands in Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index

Stuart Mitchell

PrideAM, advertising’s LGBT+ network, today described as shameful, the lack of creative and media agencies in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index top 100 employers. “Despite the industry’s attempts to drive diversity it seems no progress has been made in proving that the creative workplace is an inclusive space for the LGBT+ community” says PrideAM spokesperson Lara Kingsbeer. “We recognise that some agencies have started to make efforts and are working with Stonewall, but the advertising sector has been too slow to respond to the LGBT+ community.  We are certainly many…

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UNESCO calls for fairer media coverage of sportswomen

Stuart Mitchell

As millions around the world tune into the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Games, World Radio Day (WRD), celebrated on 13 February 2018, was dedicated to the theme of “Radio and Sports”. On this occasion, the Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, calls on media to provide more equal coverage of women athletes. “The fight for equality between women and men is central to our work,” said UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay. “Only 4% of sports media content is dedicated to women’s sport. Only 12% of sports news is presented by women.”…

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Four charities team up to fight for sight and tackle a leading cause of blindness

Stuart Mitchell

Four top blindness charities have announced they have entered into a new partnership to find a treatment for one of the world’s leading causes of blindness. The charities involved are Fight for Sight, Blind Veterans UK, the Macular Society and Scottish War Blinded, the charities have launched a new collaboration to transform the funding of research to address age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The collaboration, called Action Against AMD, is a response to the increasing prevalence of sight loss among the world’s ageing population. AMD is by far the biggest cause of…

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Asda, FareShare and The Trussell Trust launch £20 million partnership to help one million people out of food poverty

Stuart Mitchell

Asda and food redistribution charities FareShare and The Trussell Trust have today announced that they will be working together on a new partnership designed to help one million people out of food poverty over the next three years. The programme will be funded by Asda, and see the supermarket invest at least £20 million in developing the infrastructure of FareShare, which operate a distribution network for food donations and The Trussell Trust, who are the UK’s biggest operator of foodbanks.     Asda’s investment will allow the two charities to…

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