Year: 2019

The Romans’ Olivia Butcher and Josie Dougoud win UK Young Lions PR Competition 2019

Stuart Mitchell

The PRCA is pleased to announce that The Romans’ team of Olivia Butcher MPRCA and Josie Dougoud MPRCA have won the UK Young Lions PR Competition 2019, sponsored by ICCO, with their ‘Mr Muscular Dystrophy’ campaign. The team will go on to represent the UK at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. This year’s UK competition saw 50 entries from teams of two under the age of 30, all responding to a brief from Muscular Dystrophy UK, which performed as the ‘client’. Each team then had 24 hours to create a creative and effective campaign. PRCA also awarded silver…

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UN Women and partners launch new initiative to repeal discriminatory laws worldwide

Stuart Mitchell

Over 2.5 billion women and girls around the world are affected by discriminatory laws—laws that impede gender equality and hold women and girls back. In too many countries, there are unequal standards for women and men, whether it’s for applying for a passport or in the choice of employment, receiving inheritance and deciding when and whom to marry. A high-level event on the margins of the 63rd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women on 20 March, launched the “Equality in Law for Women and Girls by 2030:…

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H&M Donates $200,000 To Girl Up, An Initiative Supporting Girls’ Leadership And Gender Equality

Stuart Mitchell

In honor of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, H&M USA will be supporting Girl Up in their mission of empowering young women who defend gender equality. In recognition of this transformative work, H&M will donate $200,000 to support Girl Up‘s leadership development programs for girls and to help further their contribution to social change. No matter their background, girls have the power to transform themselves, their communities, and the world around them. Girl Up is a global movement of empowered young women leaders who defend gender equality. Through…

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CAP – Making sure your employment ads are a job well done

Stuart Mitchell

The CAP have released a post which talks about Making sure your employment ads are a job well done. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. Job hunting is stressful at the best of times and it isn’t helped by job ads that aren’t truthful about a role. Think how much harder it is if applicants can’t fully trust the job vacancies they…

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Bridging the gap: Special Olympics and Best Buddies create global movement to build inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities

Stuart Mitchell

Special Olympics, Best Buddies International and supporters from around the united on Wednesday, March 6th for the annual Spread the Word Day. The Spread the Word to End the Word campaign has worked to spread respect and inclusion for 10 years by addressing the excluding and demeaning impact of the word “retard(ed).” Founded by Soeren Palumbo and Tim Shriver, Jr. in 2009, Spread the Word has had more than 1 million people pledge to end their use of the R-word. In 2017, 70% of teens reported speaking out against the…

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