Day: 11 December 2020

Charities join forces to feed thousands this Christmas

Stuart Mitchell

This Christmas a group of charities will come together with London locals and businesses to support communities following one of the most challenging years in living memory. The Kensington and Chelsea Christmas Collective is a group of front-line charities, local volunteers and businesses that have joined forces to ensure that Christmas isn’t cancelled for vulnerable London residents. The charities involved include Age UK, the NHS Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service, mental health charity SMART, The Dalgarno Trust, Dads House and Venture Community Association. The Christmas Collective will be targeting its…

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WARC and SCOPEN partner for AGENCY SCOPE UK – a research report on the UK’s marketer-agency relationship

Stuart Mitchell

WARC, the global authority on marketing effectiveness, and SCOPEN, a leading marketing communications research consultancy, are partnering for the UK’s 4th edition of AGENCY SCOPE, an independent report on marketer-agency relationships, to reveal what brands really think and how agencies can strategise for growth. A unique tool, AGENCY SCOPE 2021/2022 will provide creative and media agencies with first-hand information on the needs of their clients, helping them to improve and provide new services. The in-depth study will reveal key insights into how brands see the UK agency landscape, trends in the…

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First Minister launches Scottish National Investment Bank.

Stuart Mitchell

The Scottish National Investment Bank has officially opened for business with the completion of its first major investment. It is the UK’s first mission-led development bank and it is being capitalised by the Scottish Government with £2 billion over ten years. The bank’s proposed missions will focus on supporting Scotland’s transition to net zero, extending equality of opportunity through improving places, and harnessing innovation to enable Scotland to flourish. It will provide patient capital – a form of long term investment – for businesses and projects in Scotland, and catalyse…

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New WWF Guide Provides Step-by-Step Instructions for Companies to Navigate Climate Risks and Make Sustainability Resilient

Stuart Mitchell

A new practical guide from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) illustrates steps businesses can take to help maintain profitability and social license to operate in a climate-insecure future. Rising to Resilience: A practical guide for business and nature breaks down the complex idea of planning for instability and managing change—beyond the capabilities of traditional risk management—and can help as companies work to ensure that investments of both time and resources are worthwhile in the long term. “A corporate sustainability strategy is important, but it’s no substitute for a resilience strategy; reducing…

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Asda to donate over one million meals to help the most vulnerable this Christmas

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has announced it will donate one million meals before Christmas to support vulnerable people across the UK. The initiative will see extra meals given to food banks, charities and community groups across the country over the festive season and is on top of the work the supermarket already does with FareShare and Trussell Trust through its Fight Hunger Create Change programme, which has enabled over 50m meals to be donated since the start of the partnership. The majority of the one million meals donated will come from Asda’s back…

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