Month: April 2020

CLIC Sargent launches emergency appeal following ‘unprecedented demand’ for support from young cancer patients during Coronavirus ‘crisis’

Stuart Mitchell

CLIC Sargent has launched an emergency fundraising appeal to help young cancer patients and their families in crisis struggling with the huge emotional and financial impacts of Coronavirus. The appeal comes as the charity is dealing with a huge increase in demand for its social work support services from anxious families because of Coronavirus, worried about their child’s risk of infection, families separated by isolation rules, struggling financially or practically getting to their child’s bedside in hospital. This is set against a worrying picture for the charity, which relies on…

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RBS Scotland and The Scotsman newspaper call for businesses to donate to support poverty charities during coronavirus crisis

Stuart Mitchell

Royal Bank of Scotland and The Scotsman newspaper have issued a call for businesses to donate any non-perishable food and hygiene products they can spare to the bank’s new food distribution centre in Edinburgh to help keep two food poverty charities well-stocked during the coronavirus crisis. The bank, which has its head office at Gogarburn, is supporting the Trussell Trust and its network of food banks in Scotland, and Social Bite, a charity which is aiming to provide 4,000 food packs a day over the next three months for vulnerable…

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CAF launches emergency grant fund to support charities through coronavirus crisis

Stuart Mitchell

The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has launched an emergency fund for small charities and organisations as they battle the effects of the coronavirus. The CAF Coronavirus Emergency Fund will offer one-time grants of up to £10,000 to small charities, organisations and social enterprises that are struggling to survive. The trustees at CAF, a charity that supports charities across the UK, have allocated £5 million to fund this emergency grant programme to support local frontline charities and we expect further contributions to be added. Sir John Low, Chief Executive at CAF,…

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Tesco providing £30 million package of support for local communities tackling Covid-19

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco to provide a £30 million package of support for local communities tackling Covid-19, including £25 million food donations programme. On their website they state: We know how important it is to support the communities we serve. This work has never been more vital than today.  So we are today confirming a £30 million package of support: We currently donate £3 million of food every month through our Community Food Connection scheme and distribution centres*. In addition to that, over the next 12 weeks we will provide a top up…

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​US-based PR Leaders Highlight Ethical Concerns in Political Comms Ahead of 2020 Election

Stuart Mitchell

With 2020 a United States Presidential Election year – and Presidential Impeachment hearings also bearing down on the nation – U.S.-based members of the 35,000-member Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) issued an open call today for stronger ethical compliance by political, public affairs and media communicators. Recent years have proved an open season on fact-based communications in the U.S. political sphere. Satirical tweeting last week by a former White House Press Secretary now affiliated as an analyst with news outlet CNN and a parody-content campaign issued in fall 2019 by a U.S. journalism…

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