Month: March 2020

Asda donates £5 million to food banks, extends accessible hours for NHS workers and offers additional colleague support

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has announced it will be donating £5 million to its partners FareShare and the Trussell Trust to help the country’s most vulnerable people through COVID-19. The extensive package of measures will provide over 4 million meals to families in poverty impacted by Coronavirus as well as giving more than 3000 charities the ability to access free food over the next three months as they fight to tackle the impacts of Coronavirus in their communities. The donation from the supermarket also will help the networks of the two charities as…

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Kellogg increases global COVID-19 food relief contribution to $4 million

Stuart Mitchell

Kellog’s Company donating food and funds worldwide to support organizations helping to feed people in need More and more people around the world are quarantined and some communities are instituting mandates to “shelter in place.” Many businesses and schools have closed. In the face of this crisis, many of our vulnerable neighbors need food. As always, through our global Kellogg’s® Better Days purpose platform, we help deliver critical nourishment to families when they need it most. For example, in the U.S. alone, our partner, No Kid Hungry, estimates that kids…

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PepsiCo To Provide Enhanced Benefits To All U.S. Employees And Additional Compensation To U.S. Frontline During Unprecedented Health Pandemic

Stuart Mitchell

PepsiCo, Inc. has announced it will provide enhanced benefits to all U.S.-based employees and additional compensation to U.S. frontline employees – the women and men who make, move and sell products – amidst the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The additional compensation covers more than 90,000 frontline employees at both PepsiCo Beverages North America (PBNA) and PepsiCo Foods North America (PFNA) and consists of a minimum of an incremental $100 per week for full-time employees over the next month. PepsiCo also announced it will hire 6,000 new, full-time, full-benefit frontline employees…

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Kent Community Foundation launches new Emergency Fund

Stuart Mitchell

With immediate effect Kent Community Foundation will be supporting charities and community groups facing extreme difficulties or closure, as the impact of government measures to reduce the spread of the virus, affects their crucial fundraising activities. The KCF Coronavirus Emergency Fund will take applications for grants of up to £10,000, from charities, with an annual income of £200,000 or less, to fill the gap that not being able to fundraise during the Coronavirus restrictions, will inevitably create. The KCF Coronavirus Emergency Fund will initially give priority to applications from charities…

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Netflix pledges Emergency Support for Workers in the Creative Community

Stuart Mitchell

Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer of Netflix have posted a statement on their website as the company pledge a $100m fund to support the creative industry: The Covid-19 crisis is devastating for many industries, including the creative community. Almost all television and film production has now ceased globally – leaving hundreds of thousands of crew and cast without jobs. These include electricians, carpenters, drivers, hair and makeup artists and more, many of whom are paid hourly wages and work on a project-to-project basis.  This community has supported Netflix through the…

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