Month: November 2020

NSPCC Appoints First-Ever Young Trustees

Stuart Mitchell

The NSPCC, has appointed its first ever young trustees as part of their renewed commitment to ensure children and young people are at the centre of every decision they make. Sheanna Patelmaster, 24, who grew up in Manchester and Ife Grillo, 22, from London, have joined the organisation’s Board of Trustees, after being elected at the charity’s first virtual Annual Council Meeting (ACM) which took place via Zoom on Thursday 1 October.   The charity received 166 applications from young people across the UK, making the standard incredibly high and resulting…

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Charities And Social Enterprises Forced To Pull Back On Services Amid Income Reductions

Stuart Mitchell

The events of 2020 have forced charities and social enterprises to reduce their services in the face of declining revenues, new research from Charity Bank reveals.  The loans and savings bank for positive social change polled more than 100 of its charity and social enterprise customers to understand how they have been impacted by the pandemic this year.  COVID-19 has had significant financial implications with 58% of respondents seeing their income reduce. 1 Almost half (49%) feel that they have been unable to effectively deliver services, while 52% have delayed…

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WaterAid invites churches to give the gift of clean water this Christmas

Stuart Mitchell

WaterAid is inviting churches and community groups across the UK to support its Christmas Appeal, Future on Tap, so people in the world’s poorest places can unearth a clean, reliable source of water and build a brighter future for themselves. This year, as the UK faces continued restrictions, churches meeting virtually can join together to use WaterAid’s online resources, which include fundraising ideas and youth group activities. WaterAid aims to raise £3 million to help transform thousands of lives in Ethiopia and across the world. If church groups give before…

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Nexstar Media Group Recognized as Winner of the Ad Council’s 2020 Catalyst Award

Stuart Mitchell

Nexstar Media Group, Inc. received the 2020 Catalyst Award for their outstanding support of Ad Council public service campaigns over the past year. The Catalyst Award recognizes a communications company that creates strategic programs to advance meaningful social change. Nexstar Media Group, Inc. harnessed their 197 stations across the country to provide exceptional donated media support to Ad Council campaigns last year, with particularly standout support of Project Roadblock, an annual local broadcast TV campaign designed to reduce drunk driving fatalities over the course of the holiday season. The award…

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Offshore wind majors signal continued commitment to R&D as next stage of the Offshore Wind Accelerator gets the green light

Stuart Mitchell

The Carbon Trust has launched the fourth stage of the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), with all industry partners returning to participate and fund collaborative research, development and demonstration (RD&D) projects. Partners for Stage 4 are EnBW, Equinor, Ørsted, RWE Renewables (including the former renewables business of innogy), ScottishPower Renewables, Shell, SSE Renewables, and Vattenfall. The OWA has been pioneering industry-led RD&D activity since 2008, having undertaken more than 180 projects internationally. Over this period, rapid cost reductions have led to wide-scale deployment of offshore wind and the levelised cost of energy…

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