FCB Lisbon’s Coming OutDoor celebrates love and sexuality

In promotion of equal human rights for LGBTI+ communities, FCB Lisbon teamed up with the ILGA Portugal to create ‘The Coming OutDoor’ – a way of celebrating love and sexuality in all its many colours. The billboard, placed in Ribeira das Naus in the centre of Lisbon, had a built-in closet from which all were invited to physically come out. More than a billboard, The Coming OutDoor acts as a public space of empowerment where anyone may express pride in their own and respect for others’ sexuality. FCB Lisbon created…

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McCann fill a highway with sunblock in Peru

Peru ranks first in the world in matter of ultraviolet radiation, where skin cancer has been increasing alarmingly with about a thousand new cases of melanoma. To make people be aware and protect themselves, McCann Lima developed for Liga Contra el Cáncer the initiative  #YoUsoBloqueador (#IUseSunblock). So it painted with sunblock the faces on the billboards of 21 brands that advertise on the Panamericana Sur. This is the busiest highway among Lima and the country´s coastline, where in summer season an average of one million 600 thousand vehicles with millions…

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Small charities champion steps down after 23 years supporting small but vital Welsh charities

After 23 years and thousands of visits to small but vital charities across Wales, Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales is saying goodbye to its first and only grant manager for the country. Mike Lewis, 59, from Brecon, is retiring from the Foundation – a charitable trust which partners with small and local charities who help people overcome complex social issues. Through long-term funding, developmental support and influencing policy and practice, the Foundation helps charities make life-changing impact. Last year the Foundation distributed £25.7 million through new and existing…

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End Youth Homelessness Teams Up With Artists To Launch #Homeiswhere, A New T- Shirt Collection With Profits Helping Homeless Young People Into Housing

End Youth Homelessness’ (EYH), a national movement of local charities, has launched a new T-shirt collection #HomeIsWhere. EYH invited the artists to interpret the theme ‘Home is where…’ to help them raise money and awareness of the work they do getting vulnerable young people into safe and secure accommodation. Lending their creativity to the cause, illustrators Biff, Hannah Warren, Marylou, Tishk Barzanji, and Tom Guilmard have joined forces to help EYH to raise the profile of the 103,000 young people who faced homelessness last year. EYH’s concept invited the artists,…

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DanceSyndrome launches campaign to help communities across the North of England

North-West Multi-Award winning charity DanceSyndrome has launched a fund raising campaign to ensure it can continue helping communities across the North of England. The Show Us Your Moves campaign will encourage anyone and everyone to support the charity by filming themselves performing a short dance move and posting it on their social media channels – with the accompanying hashtags #Showusyourmoves and #Righttodance. The DanceSyndrome team will ‘kick off’ the campaign by sharing a series of short videos, created by some of those currently benefiting from DanceSyndrome’s work. Each dancer will…

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