Month: May 2018

Cannes Lions 2018 See It Be It Participants Announced

Stuart Mitchell

Cannes Lions has announced the 20 participants taking part in this year’s See It Be It programme, an increase of five participants on previous years. Now in its fifth year, the initiative aims to create a platform for women who face diversity challenges in the industry and enable them to become the drivers for change in their respective regions and throughout the industry by providing access to high-profile leaders, executive coaching and mentoring opportunities with senior figures from across the industry. “This initiative was launched to address the issue of…

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PRCA supports Business in the Community’s Equal Lives research

Stuart Mitchell

The PRCA has welcomed and supported Business in the Community’s Equal Lives research project, in partnership with Santander UK. Equal Lives aims to benefit men, women, and businesses. By enabling both men and women to take a more equal share in caring responsibilities, women’s progress in the workplace is supported. The research into balancing work and care can be completed by any man employed or self-employed in the UK over the age of 18 and any woman employed or self-employed in the UK over the age of 18 with caring…

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Wendy Becker appointed Chair of Barnardo’s children’s charity

Stuart Mitchell

Wendy Becker is to be the new Chair of Barnardo’s Board of Trustees, the UK’s oldest and largest national children’s charity announced today. Wendy has had a long and distinguished career in international business and the charity sector.  She has served as Deputy Chair of Cancer Research UK, as a trustee of The Prince’s Trust and she is a Non-Executive Director of NHS England. Her business leadership roles include Chief Executive of fashion house Jack Wills, Group Chief Marketing Officer on Vodafone’s Global Executive Committee and Managing Director of TalkTalk…

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Waitrose gives £1 million to tackle plastic pollution

Stuart Mitchell

Waitrose has announced a donation of half a million pounds from carrier bag levy funds to the Commonwealth Marine Plastics Research and Innovation Challenge Fund. Focused on supporting research into the issue of plastics in the marine environment, the Fund also aims to prevent the material finding its way into the ocean. Rob Collins, Managing Director of Waitrose, said: ‘‘We’re very pleased to be an early contributor to the Fund and wish it every success in tackling these pressing issues. It feels appropriate that our support is coming from carrier…

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Dementia charities join forces for 2019 London Marathon campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Hackney-born actor Ray Winstone is challenging runners inspired by last weekend’s Virgin Money London Marathon to secure their place in next year’s event to help raise over £3.5m for groundbreaking dementia research. The call comes as Virgin Money, the race sponsors, named dementia charities Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Research UK as Charity of the Year for 2019. The two charities will join forces for a year-long campaign, called Dementia Revolution, as Charity of the Year for Virgin Money and the 2019 Virgin Money London Marathon. The campaign aims to overthrow…

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