Month: August 2018

Period Poverty Products To Be Sold In Waitrose

Stuart Mitchell

Waitrose is the first retailer to sell Hey Girls sanitary products which are pioneering in tackling period poverty. The social enterprise uses a buy one, give one free structure to distribute sanitary products to girls and women who cannot afford them in the UK. The products will be available in 80 Waitrose branches from 13th of August and charities local to these shops will benefit from being sent sanitary goods to give to those in need. Sales in the branches will be tracked so Hey Girls will donate the equivalent…

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Canary Wharf Group set to become World’s First Plastic Free Commercial Centre as it joins forces with Surfers Against Sewage

Stuart Mitchell

Canary Wharf Group set to become World’s First Plastic Free Commercial Centre as it joins forces with Surfers Against Sewage Canary Wharf Group is proud to announce that they have committed to becoming a Plastic Free Community as the next step in their 12-month #BreakingThePlasticHabit campaign, making them the first commercial centre to take part in the Surfers Against Sewage led initiative. The new initiative has been informed by its World Environment Day activities in June, which included a plastic audit across the Estate, and its ground-breaking plastics panel debate.…

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Think tanks and lobbying: statutory register must be expanded

Stuart Mitchell

Responding the recent press coverage about alleged links between think tanks and the lobbying process, the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has welcomed comments from Alison White, Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists, and again called for the statutory lobbying register to be expanded to include all lobbyists rather than simply some third-party consultants.  Francis Ingham MPRCA, Director General, PRCA, said: “Think tanks play a vibrant and vital part in the political process. But recent coverage simply adds to the mistaken belief that somehow the lobbying process is unethical and broken.…

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Fun take on serious message in new FareShare volunteer recruitment campaign

Stuart Mitchell

FareShare, the UK’s largest food redistribution charity, today launches its first national advertising campaign as part of an appeal to recruit volunteers. Adverts portraying people and the food they most resemble in a bold, fun way will feature both online and in print in regional news publications across the UK, until the end of October. The campaign was made possible after FareShare won £250,000 of media spend from the Creative Shootout – fast becoming one of the most recognised creative awards in the UK – donated by premium publisher cooperative…

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Dove & the YMCA launch #IPledgeToBeReal Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

People across the country have been urged to show their real-selves this summer after new figures reveal that celebrities and people on social media put the most pressure on young people to look ‘perfect’. The YMCA spoke to more than 1,000 young people aged 11 to 16 years-old about body image expectations, with 58% of those saying celebrities are responsible, while 52% blamed people on social media. The pressure to look ‘perfect’ especially increases among older young people, with 62% of 15 to 16 year-olds admitting pressure about their looks…

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