TalkTalk joins forces with Ambitious about Autism to launch employability programme in the North West

TalkTalk, has partnered with national charity Ambitious about Autism to launch ‘Employ Autism’ in the North West. The charity’s nationwide employability programme will aim to prepare 10,000 autistic young people for work by 2022. This year it expands to the North West and TalkTalk will be the Lead Partner for the programme, offering a number of placements across various functions over the summer. The partnership will connect employers, educational institutions, local authorities, specialist agencies, and most importantly young people. All participants will be offered paid, meaningful work placements, providing access…

Read More

Ørsted, Recently Named the Most Sustainable Company in the World, Forms New Research Partnerships to Advance Technology for Protection and Conservation of Right Whales

Ørsted U.S. Offshore Wind is proud to announce an exciting and innovative partnership with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, the University of Rhode Island (URI), and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to launch the Ecosystem and Passive Acoustic Monitoring (ECO-PAM) project. Ørsted signed an initial memorandum of understanding with Rutgers University in May 2019 to support academic research activities related to offshore wind. The ECO-PAM project will be in addition to this initial funding agreement. The company plans to apply the project’s learnings to develop tailored processes and…

Read More

Fairtrade International and U.S. Chapter Fairtrade America Named Top Certification in Its Category

Fairtrade International, the original and global leader in fair trade certification, was recognized as the gold standard for fairtrade certification by a recent analysis of fair trade labels conducted by Fair World Project, an independent advocacy group promoting fair trade for small-scale producers and labor justice for workers around the world. The new report, entitled International Guide to Fair Trade Labels, scored eight fair trade and ethical labels on their effectiveness in order to help consumers and companies navigate the increasingly cluttered world of sustainability and ethical certifications. Fairtrade earned…

Read More

Environmental NGOs express “disappointment” and “concern” over Coca-Cola’s recent advert in joint letter to WRAP

Environmental organisation City to Sea has today sent a joint open letter to WRAP  which is co-signed by 6 other NGO’s including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth to express their collective “disappoint” and “concern” regarding Coca-Cola’s recent ‘Round in Circles’ advertising campaign which attempts to redefine the word single-use. The advert they claim, will “disrupt consumer understanding of what is meant by ‘single use’ packaging” and “sets a dangerous precedent to the industry and poses a real and immediate threat to progress being made on reducing single-use plastic.”  The…

Read More

Boost your mental well-being by taking on iTRI challenge, says Paralympian Andy Lewis

Gold medal winner Andy Lewis MBE is challenging fundraisers to get a taste of life as a triathlete by taking part in Barnardo’s iTRI virtual triathlon. iTRI, which is free to enter, sees fundraisers swimming 2.4 miles, cycling 112 miles and running 26.2 miles over the course of March while raising money for vulnerable children and young people. Participants have the freedom to complete the set distances in their own time and at their own pace from anywhere in the UK. The entire distance can be completed in one go…

Read More