Day: 11 June 2020

Stir to Action and Power to Change partner to relaunch 20 webinars for free to support communities

Stuart Mitchell

Stir to Action has launched 20 webinars in partnership with Power to Change to provide free training and peer support for those playing a vital role in their local economy during and after the crisis. Now in its second year, Stir to Action’s New Economy Programme is a national series of workshops and three-day residentials that offer capacity-building training for local communities, democratic businesses, third sector organisations, and activists. As the COVID-19 crisis unfolded and the distancing measures were put in place, Stir to Action wass been compelled to redevelop…

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WaterAid ranks 5th in list of UK’s Best Workplaces™ with a special recognition for Excellence in Wellbeing

Stuart Mitchell

WaterAid has been placed fifth in the 2020 UK Best Workplaces™ large sized category by Great Place to Work®, and received special recognition as a centre of Excellence in Wellbeing.  This prestigious award comes two years after WaterAid became the first international charity ever to feature on the list, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and is considered as the gold standard of employer awards. The charity was also named one of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ for Women the same year, the first time it had applied.  Featuring alongside…

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Industry bodies call for additional funds for those businesses who will be latest to return to work

Stuart Mitchell

Industry bodies representing creative industries, hospitality and visitor attractions have issued a statement calling on government to extend support for those businesses and professionals who will be latest to return to work, warning of a financial “cliff-edge” for businesses that will be unable to resume full levels of operation for some time.  The statement from Caroline Norbury MBE (CEO, Creative Industries Federation),  Kate Nicholls (CEO, UKHospitality and Chairwoman, The Tourism Alliance) and Bernard Donoghue (Director, The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions) reads: “As lockdown measures begin to ease, government must…

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IPA publishes 2019 IPA Agency Census

Stuart Mitchell

The IPA has published its annual Agency Census detailing a breakdown of the make-up of agencies within IPA membership in 2019. Overall numbers reveal that, at the time of data collection, the employed base in IPA member agencies in 2019 was 24,866, compared with the 25,142 recorded in 2018. While the number of employees in media agencies continued to grow, increasing by nearly 400 year-on-year to 11,357, the number of employees at creative and non-media agencies fell by over 600 to 13,509. The decline in overall staff numbers appears to…

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Ad Council Announces New Members of Board of Directors

Stuart Mitchell

The Ad Council, America’s leading non-profit organization dedicated to using communications to drive social change, elected new members to its Board of Directors at its spring meeting held virtually last week. The Board is chaired by David Fischer, Chief Revenue Officer, Facebook. Diego Scotti, Chief Marketing Officer at Verizon, has been named a Board Vice Chair, joining additional Board Vice Chairs Linda Yaccarino, Chairman, Advertising Sales and Client Partnerships, NBCUniversal, and Jacki Kelley, CEO, Dentsu Aegis Network. Since the organization’s founding, the Ad Council has been at the forefront of…

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