Day: 15 November 2020

Tanya Joseph and Rax Lakhani join PRCA Board of Directors

Stuart Mitchell

Tanya Joseph MPRCA, Managing Director, Hill+Knowlton Strategies, and Digital Strategist, Rax Lakhani CMPRCA have been appointed to the PRCA’s Board of Directors. The appointments were ratified at the PRCA AGM on 24 September.  Tanya is one of the industry’s most respected practitioners, having worked across public affairs, policy and campaigning in private, public and NGO sectors. She is the former Director of Campaigns and Public Policy at Nationwide and spent five years leading campaigns at Sport England, including the highly successful ‘This Girl Can’ initiative to encourage more women to…

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Leading energy companies form partnership to accelerate the development of offshore ‎transport and storage infrastructure for carbon emissions in UK North Sea‎

Stuart Mitchell

bp, Eni, Equinor, National Grid, Shell and Total have confirmed they have formed ‎a new partnership, the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), to develop offshore carbon dioxide ‎‎(CO2) transport and storage infrastructure in the UK North Sea, with bp as operator. This ‎infrastructure will serve the proposed Net Zero Teesside (NZT) and Zero Carbon Humber (ZCH) ‎projects that aim to establish decarbonized industrial clusters in Teesside and Humberside.‎ NZT and ZCH are at-scale decarbonization projects that will kick start decarbonization of industry and ‎power in two of the UK’s largest industrial…

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IKEA supports social entrepreneurs to have a bigger impact

Stuart Mitchell

Together with Ashoka, Inter IKEA Group, through IKEA Social Entrepreneurship BV, supports social entrepreneurs looking to solve deep-rooted social issues in the areas of equality, inclusion and livelihoods. In this second year of a tailor-made and co-created global programme, the Dela Accelerator, twelve social entrepreneurs will partner up with IKEA co-workers to strengthen and scale solutions to achieve a bigger positive impact on society.   During the year-long Dela Accelerator Programme, specially selected IKEA co-workers will support the social entrepreneurs with their business scale-up plans in order for them to have the biggest…

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CIPR launches ‘Career Starter’ – free mentor scheme for student members

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has launched a new, free member mentoring scheme – Career Starter – exclusively for its student members. Launching with 63 mentors, Career Starter is a self-starter scheme providing students with a safe sounding board to support them to reach the next milestone in their public relations career through discussing challenges, exploring opportunities and planning for future career actions. Students can search and select their mentor, all of whom are CIPR Chartered PR Practitioners with a wealth of experience working in-house, agency side and…

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Secret® Deodorant Keeps Women’s Hockey Afloat During COVID-19 with $1 Million Commitment to PWHPA

Stuart Mitchell

Over the last six months, no organization or individual has been immune to the COVID-19 crisis. And as we look to the future of our ‘new normal’, it’s become apparent women will face a disproportionate negative impact in their daily lives and in sport. As noted by Canadian Women & Sport: “Huge revenue losses, deep cuts and a tight focus on ‘core business’ threaten initiatives dedicated to leveling the field for women. Marketers, media and investors may gravitate toward the ‘safe bet’ of men’s sport. And heightened competition for scarce…

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