Day: 8 June 2019

Gareth Southgate backs ‘Future Leaders’ launch

Stuart Mitchell

England men’s football manager Gareth Southgate is working with charity The Prince’s Trust to give young people skills in leadership and teamwork. The new Prince’s Trust programme, Future Leaders, officially launched on 9 May in London and is the latest addition to a range of schemes run by the charity to give young people crucial life skills and help them into jobs, education and training. As a Goodwill Ambassador of The Prince’s Trust, Gareth Southgate is supporting the two-day programme, which will help more young people with the confidence, resilience…

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Forsman & Bodenfors New York launch new tool which will help brands make advertising more inclusive

Stuart Mitchell

Forsman & Bodenfors New York has launched growyourcircle.org, a digital tool for the entire U.S. advertising industry that allows agencies and producers to find underrepresented talent from disciplines across all types of production including film, digital, and experiential. The tool was born out of equal parts necessity and passion to diversify the advertising production industry. The platform showcases a wide range of disciplines within the production industry including developers, editors, animators, etc. More importantly, it gives access to many other underrepresented entrepreneurs, like those who identify as LGBTQ+, come from…

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Only 7% of surplus food in UK supply chain reaches charities, despite uplift in amount businesses redistribute to good causes

Stuart Mitchell

FareShare, the UK’s largest food redistribution charity, has released new figures showing a 27 per cent increase in the amount of food redistributed to frontline charities this year. In 2018/19 the charity redistributed 19,519 tonnes of good quality surplus food that would otherwise have been wasted, enough to create the equivalent of 46.5 million meals for people in need. However, despite this rapid growth, this only represents around 7 per cent of the total amount of the amount of edible food in the supply chain. FareShare’s Chief Executive, Lindsay Boswell,…

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Enterprise Nation and Amazon launch programme to help small businesses grow on both the high street and online

Stuart Mitchell

Enterprise Nation and Amazon have announced the launch of Clicks and Mortar – a new programme to help small businesses grow, both in-store and online. The programme will: enable more than 100 small online businesses to sell on the high street for the first time in 10 Clicks and Mortar shops across the UK. The year-long pilot programme will explore a new model to help up-and-coming online brands grow their high street presence. Independent research on the success of the pilot will be submitted to the Government, following the call…

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Merck Pioneers New Efforts to See MS from the Inside Out

Stuart Mitchell

Merck, a leading science and technology company, joins the global multiple sclerosis (MS) community in recognition of World MS Day, an initiative created by the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (MSIF) to raise awareness of the 2.3 million people worldwide living with this challenging disease. In support of this year’s World MS Day theme, #MyInvisibleMS, Merck is making MS visible through a variety of initiatives aimed at shining a light on the hidden symptoms of MS. These invisible symptoms, which include visual problems, fatigue, pain and emotional changesi, can vary between…

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