Charitable organisations around the world benefitted from more than £702 million paid out from the Charities Aid Foundation in 2019/20 in another record year for giving via CAF. The charity’s annual report reveals that money paid out to charities in the UK and 110 countries around the world during the last fiscal year rose by £56 million over the previous year. Despite the dominance of Brexit negotiations, a UK general election and the start of the global Covid-19 pandemic, donors continued to entrust their charitable giving into CAF’s care in…
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DrawFor launches international ‘art with purpose’ collection #DrawForYoungLives
DrawFor launches international ‘art with purpose’ collection #DrawForYoungLives; supporting artists and suicide prevention in the young. Following the success of DrawFor’s debut campaigns #DrawForNHS and #DrawForEquality, the not-for-profit social enterprise announces the launch of its next ‘art with purpose’ campaign, #DrawForYoungLives. The campaign will feature exclusive and diverse artworks from international artists, available as affordable prints, with all profits from sales of prints split equally between the charity and artist. The organisation, created to support artist talent and raise funds for some of the most important matters of our time,…
Read MoreSpending data indicates carbon emissions remain 14% lower than in 2019
New data analysis reveals that the carbon emissions resulting from six key consumer spending categories fell by almost a third during the national lockdown, with year-on-year emissions remaining much lower than in 2019. Analysis of Lloyds Banking Group’s consumer spending data by the Carbon Trust across six key spending categories shows estimated carbon emissions fell by 4.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) over the height of the national lockdown. This was a drop of 27% compared to the same period in 2019 for the areas reviewed. The connection…
Read MoreTesco creates 16,000 new permanent roles
Tesco has announced that it will create 16,000 new permanent roles to support the exceptional growth in its online business. These 16,000 jobs are in addition to the 4,000 permanent jobs already created since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The roles will include 10,000 pickers to assemble customer orders and 3,000 drivers to deliver them, plus a variety of other roles in stores and distribution centres. The supermarket expects the majority of these roles to be filled by colleagues who joined on a temporary basis at the start of…
Read MoreChannel 4 continues longstanding commitment to Paralympic sport securing Paris 2024 Paralympic Games rights
With exactly four years to go until the Opening Ceremony, Channel 4 has today been awarded the UK television rights to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. The deal with Channel 4 includes multi-platform broadcast rights within the UK and will see the broadcaster build on its acclaimed coverage of London 2012 and Rio 2016 which broke UK viewing records for Paralympic sport. London 2012 reached 69 per cent of the population. Paris 2024 has set high ambitions for the organisation of the Paralympic Games, as the first ever Summer edition…
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