Day: 21 November 2020

GOSH Charity & Sparks announce merger

Stuart Mitchell

Sparks initially joined GOSH Charity as a partner in 2017 to share resources and expertise. Below is a letter posted on both charities’ websites, from Chief Executive Louise Parkes: “In 2017 Sparks approached GOSH Charity about working in partnership. By coming together and sharing our resources and expertise, we aimed to make more money available to researchers from across the country who were trying to find treatments and cures for children with rare diseases. “Since Sparks joined us in 2017, it has contributed £2.2million to our fantastic joint National Call,…

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Standard Life Aberdeen Join Pawprint Pioneer Program To Take Action On ‘At Home’ Carbon Footprint

Stuart Mitchell

With the ongoing pandemic, how people currently work and live has changed dramatically and therefore so has their carbon footprint. Whilst the emissions from offices and, more importantly, business travel have reduced, the majority of people are now working from home and creating emissions from increased energy use there. Standard Life Aberdeen has estimated that their employees carbon emissions from working at home could represent up to 60% of their overall 2020 carbon footprint.  That is why the global investment firm has partnered with eco-tech business Pawprint, a company set…

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Tesco to donate an additional £4m of food to FareShare

Stuart Mitchell

FareShare’s longstanding retail partner, Tesco, is set to donate an additional £4m of food to help the charity continue its support of frontline organisations feeding people in need. The generous donation will be used to purchase high quality cheese and meats with a mixture of ambient food in the New Year to help FareShare continue providing food to frontline organisations feeding those in need across the UK. Earlier this year, the supermarket provided £15m of food to FareShare and the Trussell Trust to support those who needed help at the…

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Pampers® Donates More Than 200,000 Preemie Diapers to Canadian Families for Prematurity Awareness Month

Stuart Mitchell

Each year in Canada more than 30,000 babies are born prematurely, spending their first weeks in the NICU and as a result, needing extra care. In honour of November’s Prematurity Awareness Month, Pampers is donating more than 200,000 diapers via the Canadian Premature Babies Foundation (CPBF) and invites Canadians to join the conversation by sharing words of encouragement using hashtag #PampersForPreemies. For every hashtag used in November and December, Pampers® will donate one extra diaper to Canadian NICUs via the CPBF on their behalf. During the first three years of…

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IPA urges media agencies to adopt MFG Climate Charter

Stuart Mitchell

The IPA’s Media Futures Group (MFG) has today issued a call to media agencies to commit to its Climate Charter to accelerate zero carbon transition for the media agency industry. The Charter forms a key strand of a five-point plan set out by the Advertising Association’s Ad Net Zero report, published today (18 November 2020), in response to the urgency and scale of the climate crisis caused by CO2 emissions. The IPA MFG Climate Charter maps out initiatives that are specific to how media agencies can reduce their carbon footprint,…

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