Day: 9 January 2020

Top health charities merge to bring significant benefits for those with lung disease

Stuart Mitchell

Asthma UK (AUK) and the British Lung Foundation (BLF) will merge after the final step in the formal process was completed on Monday 9 December. Both organisations announced their intention to merge in November ahead of a vote by AUK’s members at an extraordinary general meeting on 2 December and a meeting of the BLF’s board of trustees yesterday. With the formal preparations completed, the newly formed Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Partnership is now looking forward to continuing to safeguard and improve the nation’s respiratory health. The new…

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Clear Thoughts Foundation has created a new collaborative initiative to fund breakthrough discoveries for dementia research in 2020

Stuart Mitchell

It’s a disease that has quietly become one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. and world today… dementia. Beginning in January 2020, the Clear Thoughts Foundation is set to fund a new type of collaborative initiative, one that aims to tackle dementia head on. The CTF Consortium is a collaborative group of renowned researchers and doctors from UPMC and University of Pittsburgh, working to cure dementia now! This newly funded initiative will take immediate action with the hopes to offset the staggering statistics of dementia. The CTF…

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Climate change ranks highest as most important issue facing world amongst 18-25 year olds

Stuart Mitchell

Climate change leads as one of the most important issues of facing the world, according to a major new survey of young people around the world, published by Amnesty International to mark Human Rights Day (10 December). With the findings published as governments meet in Spain for the UN Climate Change Conference, the organisation warns that world leaders’ failure to address the climate change crisis has left them out of step with young people. Amnesty International’s online poll – conducted by Ipsos MORI – questioned more than 10,000 people aged…

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PepsiCo Launches Second North America Greenhouse Program To Accelerate Purpose-Driven Solutions For The Food And Beverage Industry

Stuart Mitchell

PepsiCo has announced the launch of its second PepsiCo Greenhouse program in North America, an innovation initiative designed to support emerging entrepreneurs and brands in the food and beverage industry. The 2020 program seeks to collaborate with purpose-driven brands at the forefront of transformative trends that are changing the way consumers eat and drink. “As part of our vision to be the ‘Global Leader in Convenient Foods and Beverages by Winning with Purpose,’ we are integrating purpose into the core of our business and our brands,” said Jim Andrew, PepsiCo Executive…

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Take on a January challenge in support of Barnardo’s

Stuart Mitchell

TV Personality and entrepreneur Calum Best is encouraging people to kick start the New Year with a new challenge as he trains to climb to the top of London’s iconic ‘Cheesegrater’ in support of Barnardo’s. Calum, who is about to star in “Celebrity Ex on the Beach”, will leap into action alongside other brave participants on Saturday 29 February to climb all 1,250 steps of the building as part of the charity’s Urban Summit challenge. Participants will push themselves to the limit  by pledging to climb the skyscraper, known officially…

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