Month: January 2019

pladis UK & Ireland, owner of McVitie’s, to make all plastic packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025

Stuart Mitchell

pladis UK & Ireland, the snacking company behind the well-loved McVitie’s, Jacob’s and go ahead! brands, has today announced a wide range of measures to reduce its environmental impact through plastic waste. The announcements, which mark a key milestone in pladis UK&I’s long-term strategy to tackle plastic waste, include: pladis UK&I has signed up to the UK Plastics Pact and is pledging to make all of its plastic packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025. It will be improving labelling and joining the On-Pack Recycling Label scheme, to ensure consumers…

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Ben Hunte announced as the first LGBT Correspondent for BBC News

Stuart Mitchell

Ben Hunte, an award-winning journalist, will begin his role as the first LGBT correspondent for BBC News starting in the New Year. This newly created role will report on the stories, issues and debates surrounding sexuality and gender and focus on providing insight and analysis on matters affecting the LGBT community in the UK. Ben played a key part during the coverage of the BBC’s Gay Britannia season and presented his own series of LGBT-themed programmes on BBC Radio 4 and 4 Extra called The Ben Hunte Interviews. He interviewed…

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Third Sector launches free podcast

Stuart Mitchell

Third Sector has launched its inaugural podcast today with a focus on diversity in the sector. The podcast, which is free to air for all Third Sector readers, features a discussion on the challenges and opportunities for charities in making their workforces more diverse. This complements the most recent issue of the magazine which looked at diversity. In the podcast, Eleanor Southwood, chair of the RNIB, and Kemar Walford, chair of the Institute of Fundraising’s Black Fundraisers UK Group, join Third Sector’s Rebecca Cooney to discuss the issues. Listen now: Third Sector…

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ZS Partners With Working for Women to Help Elevate Underserved Women in the Workforce

Stuart Mitchell

In a move to support women in the workforce and to amplify the impact of employee volunteer efforts, professional services firm ZS has become the first corporate partner of Working for Women (W4W), a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to support nonprofits that are focused on elevating women to economic security. Working for Women identifies and vets nonprofits that are working to enable women in the workforce, connects these organizations to corporate partners that can supply relevant financial and skill-based resources, and reports out on the impact of their collective…

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Orlando Bloom meets children working in Bangladesh slums in powerful installment of photography series

Stuart Mitchell

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom stars in an emotional episode of Tales by Light to highlight the plight of children living and working in slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh.   To kick off the series’ third season – which will stream globally on Netflix from 21 December – Bloom travelled with photographer Simon Lister to Bangladesh to meet some of the country’s most vulnerable children. “I met very young children scavenging on floating rubbish dumps and polishing metal bowls in extremely unsafe factories in order to survive,” said Orlando Bloom. “Not…

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