Famous families lead Deichmann’s ‘Best Foot Forward’ school charity campaign to raise awareness of shoe poverty in the UK with Barnardo’s

Europe’s biggest footwear retailer Deichmann has teamed up with some of the UK’s best-loved famous faces and their families to launch its ‘Best Foot Forward’ charity campaign and school shoe donation scheme. Throughout summer, Deichmann will be supporting leading children’s charity Barnardo’s to help disadvantaged families across the UK and raise awareness on shoe poverty ahead of the new school term in September. The brand has set up its UK-first school shoe donation scheme to provide a brand-new pair of school shoes to 1,000 children across the UK and has…

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Mediaplus promotes climate-neutral advertising on World Environment Day

It’s an issue that concerns us all. The production and distribution of advertising creates CO2. Through the “World’s First Carbon Neutral Ad Break”, which Mediaplus ran on 5 June to mark the UN’s World Environment Day, the agency is providing a further stimulus to introduce more climate protection into the advertising market. The ad aims to encourage companies to offset the emissions created by their campaigns. Mediaplus was the first agency on the market to launch the Green GRP. This calculation model, developed in cooperation with ClimatePartner, determines the individual…

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Scottish Government launches Climate campaign

A major TV, radio and digital campaign to encourage people across Scotland to come together to tackle the climate emergency has been launched ahead of COP26 in Glasgow later this year. The Let’s do Net Zero campaign highlights the benefits a net zero society will bring for our economy, health and environment. It also aims to raise greater awareness of the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, and the transformation that is required across all corners of our economy and society in order to end Scotland’s contribution to…

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The One Club and 3% Movement Open Call For Free Global Next Creative Leaders 2021

The One Club for Creativity and The 3% Movement have opened the call for entries for their jointly run Next Creative Leaders 2021, a free competition recognizing women and non-binary creatives on the rise. Now in its seventh year, Next Creative Leaders is a free portfolio competition that identifies, celebrates and gives a global platform to talented women and non-binary creatives who are making their mark on the world with both their work and a unique point of view on creative leadership that’s changing the industry for the better.  …

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Haldane – just 0.5% of lockdown savings likely to be donated to charity

Andy Haldane, Chief Economist of the Bank of England and co-founder of Pro Bono Economics, has today outlined findings from new research into the savings households have amassed over the last year. Haldane has previously identified unleashing households’ huge savings windfall as the one of the keys to turbocharging the UK’s economic recovery from the pandemic. This new research from Pro Bono Economics sets out the scale of the challenge facing the charity sector as it attempts to plug the £10billion funding gap that emerged at the height of the…

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