Month: June 2020

Dollar General Literacy Foundation Presents Save the Children With $2 Million to Support Kids Across Rural America During COVID-19

Stuart Mitchell

Aligned in a mission to serve others, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded $2 million to Save the Children’s coronavirus response efforts across rural America, the nonprofit today announced. The gift will help ensure children continue to learn – and have access to nutritious foods – during nationwide school closures. Save the Children and the Dollar General Literacy Foundation are committed to helping the most vulnerable children continue to learn and get the nutrition they need to keep bellies full and minds growing. “This tremendous gift from the Dollar…

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Emma Hislop becomes Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s first Artist in Residence

Stuart Mitchell

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation are very pleased to announce their first Artist in Residency (AiR) project – led by research-based artist, Emma Hislop, who lives and works in Glasgow. Over the one month virtual residency which began on the 1st of June, Emma will be exploring the question, ‘How can art shape the economy for the better?’ The Ellen MacArthur Foundation are excited to see how her approach and working process can bring fresh perspectives to our work in accelerating the transition to a circular economy. “I’m excited that this…

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FareShare doubles the amount of food delivered to those in need during coronavirus crisis

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s biggest food charity, FareShare, has announced it has doubled the amount of food it has delivered to frontline charities supporting vulnerable people since the crisis began, praising the ‘extraordinary’ efforts of its supporters and volunteers. This year, the FareShare network, made up of 17 independent food redistribution organisations, redistributed over 24,000 tonnes of in-date surplus food from the food industry, to 11,000 charities including domestic violence refuges, breakfast clubs, food banks and day centres, an increase of 26% on the year before, and the equivalent of a million…

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ASA – Putting IV drip advertisers on notice

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Putting IV drip advertisers on notice. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. The CAP has published a new Enforcement Notice on Advertising IV Drips (Coronavirus/COVID-19) with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The Notice targets the promotion of intravenous (IV) drips to UK consumers. We have seen a small number of businesses advertising…

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Ørsted and Nestlé sign 15-year offshore wind power purchase agreement

Stuart Mitchell

The UK subsidiary of the world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestlé, has signed a 15-year indexed fixed price agreement with Ørsted, the world leader in offshore wind, to buy green power from the Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm. Nestlé UK will buy the output of 31MW of the offshore wind farm’s 573MW total capacity, making it Ørsted’s largest fixed-price corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) in the UK. From 1 May 2020, Nestlé UK will start purchasing 125GWh of green power per year to cover 50 % of Nestlé UK…

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