Month: September 2019

Employees of family-owned business help to create lasting change for young people

Stuart Mitchell

Young people’s charity The Prince’s Trust and diversified family-owned business The Denholm Group have announced a new partnership designed to create lasting change for young people. The Denholm Group has confirmed its commitment to supporting young people by becoming a patron of The Prince’s Trust and is encouraging its employees to take part in fundraising activities to support The Trust’s work of creating brighter futures for young people, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Partnering with The Prince’s Trust also provides volunteering opportunities for employees at Denholm. As well as helping…

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Walmart Launches Pollinator Garden Pilot in Three States

Stuart Mitchell

Walmart has planted 21 pollinator gardens at retail locations throughout Oregon, Washington and North Carolina. The gardens serve a dual purpose of adding to the beautification of the outdoor grounds at designated store properties and seeking to increase pollinators including bees and butterflies, which have suffered population declines in recent decades. To kick off this pilot project, the first garden was planted in April 2019 at a Walmart retail location in Garner, North Carolina. A garden has also been planted at Walmart’s global corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. The remaining…

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The Safety Cake : the first cake that can save lives

Stuart Mitchell

Do we care more about food than about our friends while driving? A survey shows that 87% of Belgian drivers carrying food on the passenger seat drive more carefully. An phenomenon that is interesting to look at. That’s what NGO Responsible Young Drivers and Renault Belux have done, whose collaboration has made possible to create the “Safety Cake”. A cake specially designed to confront motorists with their behaviour and encourage them to drive more carefully. An awareness campaign that aims to approach road safety in a different way and aims…

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We Are Undefeatable: a major new campaign to support people with long-term health conditions to be active

Stuart Mitchell

An inspiring new campaign – We Are Undefeatable – is being launched to support the one in four (15 million) people in England who live with one or more long-term health conditions, such as diabetes, cancer, arthritis and Parkinson’s. By recognising the unique barriers people with health conditions face, the campaign aims to help people build physical activity into their lives, by hearing from others who have become more active through the ups and downs of living with their condition. Individuals living with a long-term health condition are twice as likely to…

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