Month: June 2020

Pride in London calls for 30,000 ‘Acts of Allyship’ with launch of new digital community hub

Stuart Mitchell

With LGBT+ communities more isolated and divided than ever under lockdown, Pride in London – the UK’s largest Pride event – is launching a brand new digital community hub to galvanise people into making much-needed ‘Acts of Allyship‘ for those in other LGBT+ groups. The campaign, part of Pride in London’s 2020 theme You!Me!Us!We!, will provide resources on how to be a better ally, as well as enabling people to directly make a tangible difference to marginalised groups – for example, by supporting queer artists and performers by attending a…

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Waitrose, John Lewis and Vitality team up with Olympic heroes to help improve customers’ health and wellbeing as lockdown eases

Stuart Mitchell

Waitrose, John Lewis and health and life insurer Vitality has launched a series of free virtual workshops focused on health and wellbeing, exclusively for myWaitrose and myJohn Lewis members. The programme has been created to help address some of the undesirable “side effects” of lockdown including poor posture from lengthy spells of home working, disturbed sleep or unhealthy eating habits. From this week, the retailers’ members are being invited to book onto a range of free live classes, including: Talks from in-house Waitrose nutritionists on making healthier food choices and…

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Collaborating with the competition to cope with COVID-19: How Businesses are surviving the pandemic

Stuart Mitchell

Businesses around the world have had to collaborate with competitors in order to survive the coronavirus pandemic – in some cases they have grown – but sharing excessive amounts of information with rivals comes with risks. A new paper published in the journal Industrial Marketing Management has examined coopetition – cooperating with competitors – a strategy used to cope with the unique impact of COVID-19 on retailers, pharmaceutical companies, non-profit organisations and tech firms, such as Google and Amazon. Dr James M. Crick, of Loughborough University, and his father Professor…

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“I Happen to Like New York” – A Loving Tribute to New Yorkers and the City’s Front-Line Workers

Stuart Mitchell

There have been many heartwarming stories to come out of the COVID-19 crisis in New York, but perhaps none as emotionally resonant as the nightly salute to the front-line workers who literally put their life on the line every day. Each evening at 7 p.m., New Yorkers gather on streets (at a safe distance, of course) or lean out of their windows, banging saucepans, clapping, cheering and hollering as exhausted healthcare workers make their way home after a shift. It’s noisy, passionate and emotional: A quintessential New York salute. “It’s…

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1851 Trust, INEOS TEAM UK’s official charity, launch new online STEM education platform to further support remote learning as summer term begins

Stuart Mitchell

With students across the country getting back to school work with the start of the Summer term, the 1851 Trust, INEOS TEAM UK’s official charity, has launched a new online platform, the Pupil Portal, on STEM Crew, supported by INEOS, providing young people with direct access to their learning resources inspired by Britain’s challenge to win the America’s Cup. In the current circumstances with most students still unable to go to school, home schooling has become more prevalent than ever. That is why the 1851 Trust is creating new ways of…

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