Day: 20 December 2018

Teenagers help Sainsbury’s and Argos brighten a million Christmases

Stuart Mitchell

Sainsbury’s and Argos have launched a new ‘Help to Brighten a Million Christmases’ campaign to encourage one million food and toy donations in stores across the UK. The initiative expands on Sainsbury’s year-round food bank scheme and will be run in partnership with thousands of charity partners across the UK, to distribute the items to local communities in time for Christmas. A group of National Citizen Service (NCS) graduates from Exeter have played a major role to help kick-start the campaign, inventing new on-shelf labels to highlight priority products for…

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Refuge, UK’s largest domestic violence charity, unveils chilling reversible poems to expose hidden nature of domestic violence at Christmas

Stuart Mitchell

Refuge, the UK’s largest domestic violence charity, has created a series of menacing poems that tell the story of women and children who have experienced domestic violence at Christmas. Even now in 2018, one in four women experience domestic violence in their lifetime.  Two women a week are killed at the hands of a partner or ex-partner in England and Wales.  And on average, another three women a week commit suicide as a way of escape. To raise awareness of this growing epidemic, which is often overlooked during the festive…

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Send Uplifting Letters and Books to Kids with Cancer this Holiday in the Letters of Love Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

The Letters of Love campaign runs for a second consecutive year and is created by personalized publisher I See Me! in partnership with the Children’s Cancer Research Fund, a national organization that funds groundbreaking research to change children’s lives. To help spread love and the holiday spirit to children in need, I See Me! has created an online letter submission page at www.iseeme.com/letters, where anyone can write and submit letters to children who have cancer. In the inaugural launch of the campaign last year, I See Me! received over 1600…

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Help End Childhood Hunger this Holiday Season with Gifts that Give Back

Stuart Mitchell

Hunger doesn’t take a holiday for the one in six kids in America who face hunger. As friends and families across the country gather to celebrate the holiday season, No Kid Hungry, a national campaign to end childhood hunger in America, invites holiday shoppers and diners to support its work to feed kids in need this holiday season. National brands like Williams Sonoma, Hickory Farms, OpenTable, Grubhub and more will offer seasonal products and promotions that support No Kid Hungry’s work to end childhood hunger in the United States. Every…

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McCann Santiago and Ripley premiere an animated short film “The magical night of Gaspar” in Chile and Peru

Stuart Mitchell

Christmas is stereotyped by snow and cold. However, in the southern hemisphere of the planet it´s the opposite, it´s the beginning of the summer season where the fire warnings conversations start. To highlight the people’s works who devote themselves to care and prevent risk for others, Ripley and McCann Santiago make a tribute to all those who give their service to others, especially on Christmas Eve, through an animated short film produced by PUNKROBOT and where the main character is a fireman family man. “Firemen in Chile have something special,…

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