Day: 29 March 2021

Immersive audio play explores dementia and the hope in research

Stuart Mitchell

The Window is a thought-provoking immersive audio experience about love and grief, memory and science, and a story about the things families don’t talk about. The play premiers to the public on 31 March. It weaves personal experience of dementia alongside insight into research, charting the emotional personal journey family members often experience when a loved one develops the condition. The Window is the latest artwork from digital story studio Fast Familiar and is funded by Alzheimer’s Research UK’s Inspire Fund. Dementia is caused by diseases and it affects nearly…

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Lloyds Banking Group delivers £9bn to social housing sector in just three years

Stuart Mitchell

Since 2018, Lloyds Banking Group has provided £9bn of funding to the UK’s social housing sector, outstripping its original £2.25bn funding commitment by £6.75bn over this period due to strong sector demand and the Group’s appetite to support more social housing and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) projects. The funding has been delivered by the Group’s Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, Scottish Widows and Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets teams. Commitment to Social Housing The funding has aided the creation of more, high quality homes helping housing associations provide homes for…

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What works to support diversity in the creative industries? Insights from theatre/dance roundtable of the APPG for Creative Diversity

Stuart Mitchell

February was the first meeting of the APPG for Creative Diversity for 2021 and focused on theatre and dance. As in previous months, the roundtable raised themes that will be familiar to those who have followed the 2020 sessions. The session also reflected the range of artforms, businesses, organisations, and practitioners captured under this particularly broad umbrella. The roundtable recognised that theatre and dance have a history of not being representative of the breadth of communities that constitute contemporary society. In particular, several participants discussed how they were inspired to…

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FareShare among eight charities to receive vital support as NFU Mutual Charitable Trust provides £750,000 funding

Stuart Mitchell

FareShare and Samaritans are among eight national charities to receive a funding boost from the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust. Leading rural insurer NFU Mutual has enabled the donations with an additional pledge of £750,000 to the Charitable Trust in response to the ongoing challenges faced by communities across the UK.The funding will support a wealth of initiatives, such as efforts to tackle mental health concerns and food insecurity. Impacts will include 600,000 meals distributed by FareShare to vulnerable individuals and families across the UK. Announced today, the eight charities set…

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Tesco takes action to improve marine sustainability, moving to a Seascape approach for tuna sourcing

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has joined WWF in advocating for a Seascape approach to marine sustainability, which is designed to ensure whole marine ecosystems are maintained in a healthy, productive way. The retailer will first adopt the Seascape approach for its tuna sourcing and has set out a roadmap to transition to ecosystem-based fisheries management by 2030. Despite improvements in fisheries management, marine biodiversity continues to be at risk from overfishing, with 94% of all fish stocks either overfished or at a maximum sustainable level. Amongst the species most as risk is tuna,…

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