Month: April 2019

WaterAid launches appeal for Cyclone Idai

Stuart Mitchell

The scale of the devastation from Cyclone Idai is now apparent: nearly 3 million people affected across Southeastern Africa, with hundreds of people dead, hundreds of thousands left homeless, and waterborne diseases like diarrhoea and cholera already being reported. The need is enormous, and urgent. WaterAid has today launched an emergency appeal to fund relief operations in two districts in Mozambique and Malawi. WaterAid is not an emergency response organisation and so is not a member of the DEC (Disasters Emergency Committee). However, when disasters affect the communities we work…

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End Youth Homelessness Launches #Nowyouseeme Campaign To Raise Awareness Of Hidden Youth Homelessness

Stuart Mitchell

End Youth Homelessness (EYH), a UK-wide movement of local charities, has teamed up with acclaimed artist and sculptor David Oliveira to place “invisible” sculptures of young people in high-profile locations around the UK. The campaign aims to encourage the public to make the invisible, visible by sharing #NOWYOUSEEME on social media, raising awareness of and supporting their local youth homelessness charity. The sculptures were unveiled at the Design Museum on the 21st March, supported by the premiere of a film from the Ridley Scott Creative Group’s Black Dog Films, directed…

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Engine and Spinal Injuries Association fast forward the outdoor ad to mark Disabled Access Day

Stuart Mitchell

Challenges of life as a spinal cord injured person highlighted in advertising world first which was launched in Manchester on Saturday 16 March. In a remarkable media first for digital out-of-home (DOOH), people are actively encouraged to fast-forward the advert on Ocean’s full motion city centre Loop network in Manchester. Filmed from a first person perspective, Donate to Accelerate fully immerses people in how arduous everyday tasks are for thousands of people who are spinal cord injured. Created by Engine to raise awareness and funds for Spinal Injuries Association (SIA),…

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Organisations should be doing more to achieve privacy accountability

Stuart Mitchell

The Global Privacy Enforcement Network’s (GPEN) annual intelligence gathering operation looked at how well organisations have implemented the core concepts of accountability into their own internal privacy policies and programmes. The joint study, known as the ‘GPEN sweep’, is carried out by data protection regulators across the globe and this year looks at how they have taken responsibility for complying with data protection laws. Whilst there were examples of good practice, it was found that a number of organisations had no processes in place to deal with the complaints and queries…

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Patagonia Strengthens Commitment to Planet, Hires Avi Garbow, EPA’s Longest-Serving General Counsel, as Patagonia Environmental Advocate

Stuart Mitchell

Patagonia was created to explore wild places, and we are still in business today because we fight to protect them. Since our founding more than 40 years ago, we have worked to protect and preserve the natural world—from our ongoing efforts to reduce our company’s environmental footprint to supporting hundreds of environmental nonprofits around the world. We use our brand to address the most pressing issues of our time, and every employee hired is committed to our mission of saving our home planet. Today, we are pleased to extend our…

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