Day: 9 July 2019

Santander Employees Aim Knockout Blow Against Dementia

Stuart Mitchell

Santander employees from the South-East and Midlands came together in Milton Keynes to compete in a charity remake of the classic TV game show ‘It’s a Knockout’. The event saw a total of almost 200 employees in 24 teams take part in eight different obstacle courses, presenting both physical and mental challenges. The challenges included a human pinball wizard, dinghy derby and a minefield dare. These were all taken on while some of the teams were wearing fancy dress costumes and made even more difficult by them having to battle…

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Lessons cancelled for week as Islington primary school is transformed into a working theatre

Stuart Mitchell

From 8– 12 July 2019 national charity Arts Insight will take over Winton Primary School in Kings Cross, London to produce ‘Cirque du Respect’. For the week, the school children become young professionals working together to produce an original musical. Classrooms are transformed into a marketing department, a set and props workshop, the newsroom, a film and editing studio and the costume department.  The hall is the rehearsal room, which over the course of the week is transformed into an auditorium by the backstage production teams. At the end of…

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Food Lion Receives National Recognition for CIAA Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Public Relations Society of America has awarded Food Lion with its prestigious Bronze Anvil Award in recognition of its successful #BallinOnHunger campaign executed during the Central Intercollegiate Athletics Association Tournament. The purpose of the 2018 campaign was to spark engagement with CIAA fans and connect them with ways they could help Food Lion fight hunger in the 12 towns and cities where there are CIAA schools. The result was enough social posts to donate 24,000 meals to local food banks and more than 2.9 million of media impressions giving visibility…

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Ralph Lauren Announces Comprehensive New Global Citizenship & Sustainability Strategy and Goals

Stuart Mitchell

Ralph Lauren Corporation unveiled its renewed strategy on Global Citizenship & Sustainability as part of its fiscal year 2019 (FY19) report, published today. The strategy, Design the Change, is both a commitment and a journey to accelerate the Company’s work across citizenship and sustainability and includes a new set of goals that bring clarity and focus to how Ralph Lauren will deliver the change required to create a better future. As part of its commitment, the Company also announced it has signed onto the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), joining…

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Amazon Announces Latest Effort to Fight Homelessness—$8 Million Donation to Housing and Homeless Nonprofits in HQ Regions and Company Match For Employee Contributions

Stuart Mitchell

Since 2016, Amazon has made in-kind and cash donations to its Seattle nonprofit partners Mary’s Place and FareStart, including a first-of-its-kind family shelter within an Amazon building for Mary’s Place and classroom and restaurant space for FareStart’s job training program for people experiencing homelessness or living in poverty. The collective value of these donations, including annual rent, is more than $130 million, with Mary’s Place alone receiving $100 million in in-kind and cash donations over the next 10 years. Amazon announced an initial $8 million total donation to Plymouth Housing…

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