Day: 5 July 2018

Nominet Trust becomes Social Tech Trust and announces a strategic partnership with Social Investment Business

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s leading dedicated grant maker in socially motivated tech, formerly known as Nominet Trust, has evolved into Social Tech Trust, with Social Investment Business becoming a new member and strategic partner. Social Tech Trust continues its commitment to supporting socially motivated tech with a new £0.5 million grant funding programme for early stage ventures. The Social Tech Trust grant fund Tech to unite us, will support ventures demonstrating how tech can reach its transformative potential when it is driven to address one of the greatest social challenges of our…

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Brighton Gin Celebrates Brighton Pride And Raises Money For The Rainbow Fund With New Collectors’ Range Of Eight Limited Edition Bottle Designs

Stuart Mitchell

In aid of the Rainbow Fund and celebrating the UK’s biggest Pride Festival, award-winning, super premium, small-batch Brighton Gin is releasing 1,400 Limited Edition bottles in eight colour and letter variations a month ahead of Brighton Pride. Collectively, the eight-bottle range spells the world BRIGHTON (or creative anagrams!) and the pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet labels reflect the original colours of the iconic Gay Pride Rainbow Flag.  Marking its 40th anniversary this year, it was first used at San Francisco Gay Pride 1978. The Limited Edition…

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UK Black Pride keeps the noise up in 2018

Stuart Mitchell

To celebrate this year’s UK Black Pride, which takes place on 8th July at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, UK Black Pride and Proximity London have come together to create a nationwide campaign titled ‘Keep the noise up’. The integrated campaign launched on Tuesday 26th June and aims to raise awareness of the annual festival — Europe’s largest celebration for African, Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern and Caribbean-heritage LGBT+ people, and their friends and allies. In addition to acting as a call to action, it will serve as a reminder to the…

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Ben&Jerry’s brings back the controversial rainbow in the center of Warsaw. This time it is unbreakable. Just like love.

Stuart Mitchell

Agency 180heartbeats + Jung v Matt organized an unprecedented campaign for Ben & Jerry’s (Unilever). Together with NGO’s The Miłość Nie Wyklucza Association, Foundation Wolontariat Równości, on Friday June 8th, they rebuilt the rainbow at Plac Zbawiciela in the center of Warsaw. In the new version, just a few hours before Warsaw’s Pride Parade on June 9th, the rainbow once again became a universal symbol of Warsaw’s beauty, diversity, love, peace, tolerance, and rights for LGBT people. Bringing color, optimism and joy to the city – as a real rainbow…

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David&Goliath Hosts“Cake For All” Event and Creates Social Media Campaign in Support of Pride Month

Stuart Mitchell

On June 4, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple because of a religious objection. The decision reignited a national conversation and outraged many gay rights activists. In light of this, cakes have become a symbol of division. As an agency rooted in a culture of Brave that encourages self-expression and living one’s truth, David&Goliath (D&G) showed its support of the LGBTQIA community and celebratedPride Month by hosting“CAKE FOR ALL,” an event held at the agency…

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