Day: 3 July 2019

From technology that tags fishing nets to plastic-eating fungi: Waitrose & Partners reveals winners of £1million fund to fight plastic pollution

Stuart Mitchell

Waitrose & Partners has revealed the projects it will be supporting with its unique £1 million grant fund designed to tackle plastic pollution.  Plan Plastic – The Million Pound Challenge will award money, over one year, to projects that can demonstrate an impact to reduce plastic. Working with environmental charity Hubbub, the fund attracted 150 applications, and five organisations have now been selected to receive a share of the £1 million fund. The diverse group of winners, from marine scientists to pioneering charities, all demonstrated innovation in tackling plastic pollution.…

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Bruno backs “life changing” Street Elite programme

Stuart Mitchell

Boxing legend and mental health campaigner Frank Bruno MBE was in Bartlett Park, Poplar to endorse a sports mentoring programme which is helping unemployed young people from tough London housing estates get their lives back on track. The former heavy weight world champion was joined by Tower Hamlets Cabinet Member Cllr Sabina Akhtar and 15 young Londoners as they celebrated graduating from the Street Elite project. Run by The Change Foundation, with support from the Berkeley Foundation, this nine-month sports-themed training for work initiative has now engaged with 400 unemployed…

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FCB&FiRe’s Wins Slew of Awards Including Grand Prix for ‘An Unrepeatable Photograph’

Stuart Mitchell

“An Unrepeatable Photograph”, the campaign created by Spanish agency FCB&FiRe for Trapa Chocolates, has been announced today as the Grand Prix winner at El Sol. The work also received a Gold and a Silver for PR, a Silver for Media, and an additional two Bronzes for branded content. El Festival Iberoamericano de la Comunicación Publicitaria El Sol is a very respected festival, with participants from Spain, Portugal, and the whole of Latin America, including Brazil and US Hispanic. This is the first time the Spanish agency have received this accolade. This…

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C4’s £1m Diversity in Advertising Award to highlight LGBT+ representation

Stuart Mitchell

Channel 4 has announced the next iteration of its award-winning £1 million Diversity in Advertising Award will tackle the lack of representation and stereotyping of the LGBT+ community. The award, which offers £1 million worth of commercial airtime to the winning creative idea, is challenging brands and creative agencies to develop a campaign which puts people from the LGBT+ community at the heart of their advertising without being tokenistic. The focus of this year’s competition comes after Channel 4’s sales house, 4Sales, commissioned the world’s biggest study in to diversity…

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Celebrities Star Alongside Historical Icons To Promote The World’s First Voice Petition To End Malaria

Stuart Mitchell

Hugh Laurie, Emeli Sandé,Peter Capaldi, Noma Dumezweni and Ncuti Gatwa, star in a new short filmto promote the world’s first voice petition to end malaria for the campaign Malaria Must Die, So Millions Can Live. The film highlights the power of the voice to bring about lasting positive change and features poignant and memorable footage of historical icons whose voices have changed the course of history –Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Emmeline Pankhurst and Martin Luther King.These voices of the past and present are uniting to inspire urgent public and political action…

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