Year: 2020

Full Fat offers free communications campaigns for selected UK charities

Stuart Mitchell

Full Fat commits to an annual pro bono budget to provide communication and digital campaigns for charities supporting racial, sexual, gender, ability and social equality.  Following on from our pledge in June and as part of Full Fat’s Diversity and Inclusion policy, today we are able to announce the agency’s annual commitment to charitable organisations, pro bono. We are investing up to £2,500 per month, equating to a potential £30,000 investment throughout the year. Full Fat will work with one charitable business at a time, with each business eligible for…

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Creative England and Creative Industries Federation announce Creative Coalition 2020

Stuart Mitchell

Creative England and the Creative Industries Federation are delighted to announce their inaugural joint event, Creative Coalition 2020. Streaming live across the country, this 3-day virtual festival will explore the future of the UK’s creative landscape. The first festival of its kind, Creative Coalition 2020 will bring together the UK’s creators, makers, leaders and innovators for a unique event comprising virtual live performances, including from leading UK spoken word artist George the Poet, as well as inspiring talks, panels and practical workshops, with speakers including industry leaders Jefferson Hack, Curator…

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£5.5 million of National Lottery money helps Scottish projects go the distance

Stuart Mitchell

The National Lottery Community Fund has announced a bumper package of grants worth £5,568,354 to a wide range of community projects in Scotland. Across the country 257 groups are receiving awards from The National Lottery Community Fund for a range of activities, many of which will help people to support each other through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. See link to list of awards by local authority here With a focus on supporting isolated and vulnerable people, today’s awards to community transport projects mean for many there is now a…

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Tesco launches the ‘Tesco Red Door’; invites innovators to share ideas

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has launched the ‘Tesco Red Door’, a new approach to disruptive innovation. At a virtual event for international innovators and technology start-ups, Tesco announced it was inviting innovators with new products, ideas or emerging technologies with the potential to cause disruption in the future to contact its newly established Group Innovation team. This team will be a single point of contact, responsible for quickly evaluating ideas, supporting partners to access Tesco, and helping them to develop and implement their ideas. Specifically, the team is looking for innovators to work…

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ASA – Gambling ads: keeping a watching brief

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Gambling ads: keeping a watching brief. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. Lockdown In April, we warned gambling and lottery operators to uphold the highest standards in their advertising.  Lockdown had created a captive audience and there were concerns that many people facing an uncertain financial future or other anxieties caused by the pandemic would…

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