Month: November 2019

I’m a Celebrity campmates say…”get me some clean water!”

Stuart Mitchell

As I’m a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here returns to our screens, former campmates have revealed the biggest challenges they faced when roughing it in the jungle, in support of WaterAid’s Access Denied campaign. Last year’s King of the Jungle, Harry Redknapp, missed his wife Sandra and – you guessed it – jam roly-polys, while Queen of the Jungle, Vicky Pattison, found it difficult without her biggest cheerleader – her Mum.  Motorcycle legend and 2014 winner, Carl Fogarty, craved a good cup of tea and actor, Christopher Biggins, struggled…

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Sweden to become the first country worldwide where all Coca-Cola plastic bottles will be made from 100% recycled material

Stuart Mitchell

Coca-Cola Sweden announced today that, from 2020, it will make all of its plastic bottles from 100% recycled material1, becoming the first country worldwide to do so.  The transition will begin in the first quarter of 2020 and includes all plastic (PET) packaging made at Coca-Cola’s bottling plant in Jordbro. By switching to 100% recycled material in its bottles1, Coca-Cola will eliminate the use of 3,500 tons of virgin plastic each year in Sweden. This will also result in an annual reduction in CO2 emissions of 25 per cent over…

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Youth-driven initiatives promotes safe learning environment for girls in Tanzanian schools

Stuart Mitchell

At Ngweli Secondary School in Sengerema district of Tanzania, safe space-TUSEME (“Let’s speak out” in Swahili) youth club members are running a school cafeteria. ‘It was for us to have safe food’, shared student leader Said Ramadhan Rashid. When the school did not have a cafeteria, students used to go out to find food vendors in the neighbourhood. Food from street vendors was often not clean enough. ‘Now, we are serving safe food for our peers. To set up this cafeteria, club members raised funds through a fundraising event. Bringing…

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Bond launches Apprenticeship Scheme to Increase Diversity in International Development

Stuart Mitchell

Bond has announced a pioneering programme in partnership with tech start-up WhiteHat. The programme will allow NGO’s to run apprenticeships and will have a dual focus on increasing diversity across the charity sector at entry-level and upskilling existing employees. As the first of its kind in the sector, this partnership is set to transform the way NGO’s hire, train and retain talent.  WhiteHat works to accelerate the careers of a diverse group of future leaders by offering an outstanding alternative to university through apprenticeships. They match ambitious non-graduate talent to…

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Scottish Government Launch Latte Levy

Stuart Mitchell

The Scottish Government will legislate for a charge to be applied on single-use drinks cups, Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham has confirmed. Proposals will be included in the forthcoming Circular Economy Bill. Should the legislation be passed, the level of the charge will be subject to consultation and approval by parliament. This legislation would also enable a charge, similar to the carrier bag charge, to be applied in the future to other items proven to cause environmental harm. This is one of a range of measures that will be implemented in…

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