Month: June 2020

Tesco and Jamie Oliver provide lifeline for British cheesemakers under threat by Covid-19

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco and Jamie Oliver have linked up to support two small artisan British farmhouse cheesemakers who have been badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Kirkham’s Lancashire and Keen’s Cheddar, from Somerset, both rely heavily on the service industry as well as farmers’ markets for income. The dramatic downturn in trade meant that both cheesemakers were left with a lot of raw milk to make their products, as well as several tonnes of cheese which would have had to have been thrown away. But Tesco has decided to step in and stock…

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Mary’s Place Opens Washington State’s Largest Family Shelter Within Amazon’s Seattle HQ Amid COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Stuart Mitchell

Mary’s Place and Amazon announced that the Mary’s Place Family Center in The Regrade, a one-of-a-kind, permanent family shelter built inside an Amazon office building with capacity for up to 200 moms, dads, and children experiencing homelessness each night, is now open. The shelter, which began housing families at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in Seattle, is expected to support more than 1,000 family members per year. Mary’s Place Family Center in The Regrade increased Mary’s Place’s overall shelter capacity in King County by 40%. It is the largest…

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1966 World Cup Final to air on Channel 4 in support of National Emergencies Trust Coronavirus Appeal

Stuart Mitchell

The most iconic moment in English footballing history – England’s dramatic 1966 World Cup Final win over West Germany – will be broadcast in full on Channel 4 on Sunday 7 June at 1.30pm. Viewers will be able to watch the entire match alongside England’s hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst who will give his unique insight into the game as it happens. The broadcast will support the fundraising efforts of the National Emergencies Trust’s (NET) Coronavirus Appeal and was made possible by FIFA, which has granted Final Replay the rights…

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Barnardo’s Urdu-language autism service a ‘lifeline’ for BAME parents

Stuart Mitchell

Children’s charity Barnardo’s is appealing for people to donate to help support specialist services that offer a vital lifeline to parents from BAME communities. This includes the Cygnet service in Bradford, which provides specialist support to parents of children with autism and other special needs – but it needs more support to reach vulnerable families during the Covid-19 outbreak. Nearly half (45%) of people using the service are from South Asian backgrounds, with Barnardo’s workers running sessions in Urdu to help cater to the needs of the local community.  One…

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Starbucks begins trialling new NextGen cup in London

Stuart Mitchell

Starbucks is constantly striving to make its business more and more sustainable, and for the past few years, we’ve been working towards developing a new, more recyclable and compostable coffee cup. The world’s first market trials will begin on the NextGen cup, taking place at selected Starbucks stores in London, as well as Seattle, New York, San Francisco and Vancouver. While the NextGen cups will look almost identical to the core cups, the trial versions will instead feature a BioPBS-lining on the interior rather than the usual – and hard…

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