Year: 2020

Barnardo’s listening to Black communities and adapting to meet changing needs

Stuart Mitchell

Barnardo’s is building on its long history of supporting children and families from all backgrounds, while also listening directly to Black communities and adapting to meet changing needs.  This is the message from the UK’s leading children’s charity after it hosted a virtual webinar at the end of Black History Month discussing what’s next for the charity and also what needs to change to create a more equal society.  Barnardo’s ultimate aim is to achieve better outcomes for more children, and in the summer announced its commitment to being an…

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UK social impact investment market now worth more than £5 billion

Stuart Mitchell

Social impact investing in the UK has grown six-fold over the past eight years, increasing from £830 million in 2011 to £5.1 billion in 2019, according to figures released by Big Society Capital, the UK’s leading social impact investor [1]. Big Society Capital’s latest annual market estimate shows that most of the growth during this period has come through alternatives to traditional bank lending, which have scaled 20-fold from £169 million (2011) to £3,388 million (2019). This diversity in the social impact investment market has enabled different types of investor…

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Ford Motor Company to Receive World Environment Center’s 2020 Gold Medal Award for Corporate Sustainability

Stuart Mitchell

The World Environment Center (WEC) is pleased to announce that its 36th annual Gold Medal for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable Development will be awarded to Ford Motor Company.  President and Chief Executive Officer of Ford Motor Company, Jim Farley, accepts the Gold Medal Award presented for their outstanding work in Sustainability. Through a global competition, the independent Gold Medal Jury selected Ford’s application for their commitment to transforming its culture and innovating across the business, from the production line to the design studio; for their commitment to reduce the CO2…

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CAP – Harm and Offence: Crossing the line – 2020 style

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Harm and Offence: Crossing the line – 2020 style. 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. We’re probably all a little sick of hearing it at the moment, but we are living in strange times. As such, perhaps unsurprisingly, current events have played a significant role in advertising content in 2020. In this article, we’re going…

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Deutsche Bank and Bayan-Anihan Launches seed funding programme called Growing Goodness, Together

Stuart Mitchell

Deutsche Bank and the Bayan-Anihan project of NGO Gawad Kalinga have launched a new programme in the Philippines to help farming families create a sustainable farming income in the midst of the devastating effects of the pandemic on the agricultural sector. Called Growing Goodness, Together, the programme will initially provide help to 50 farming families across four villages and farming communities supported by Gawad Kalinga, to enable farmers to invest in more efficient farming equipment, tools, seeds, and fertilizer. Gawad Kalinga Chairman Jose Luis Oquinena said, ”Each family in the…

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