Day: 27 July 2021

New £50 million partnership aimed to boost National Lottery funding to Black and Minoritised community-led charities and grassroots groups

Stuart Mitchell

The National Lottery Community Fund and The Ubele Initiative, on behalf of The Phoenix Way Partners, have today jointly announced a new £50 million partnership aimed to boost funding and support to Black and Minoritised Community charities and grassroots groups over the next five years. ‘The Phoenix Way’ will create a series of national and regional panels, made of leaders and decision-makers from Black and Minoritised Community-led charities and grassroots groups from across England. The Phoenix Way National Steering Group will work with The National Lottery Community Fund to identify…

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Alphabet soup is back with an LGBTQ+ twist as Deliveroo prompts inclusion to be a conversation around every dinner table this Pride Season – with all proceeds benefiting switchboard LGBT+

Stuart Mitchell

To celebrate the anniversary of the first ever Pride event, and the season beyond, food-delivery company Deliveroo has brought back alphabet soup – with a difference. The much-loved soup has been re-imagined to include only the letters LGBTQQIAAP to celebrate and raise awareness of the broad spectrum of identities. Deliveroo’s inclusive alphabet soup is available exclusively from Deliveroo Editions across the UK from 28th June – 12th September (or until sold out), costing £1 per can, with all proceeds being donated to Switchboard LGBT+ charity. The charity recently reported a 42% rise…

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Santander and Plena Inclusión present the ‘Finance for Mortals’ guide, for people with difficulties in understanding

Stuart Mitchell

Banco Santander and Plena Inclusión Spain have launched the ‘Finance for Mortals’ guide for all those who have any type of difficulty in understanding. This is a finance guide developed using the easy read method, a process for creating documents that are easier to understand, through text, image, design and layout. Thanks to this method, the new ‘Finance for Mortals’ guide will improve access to financial knowledge both for people with intellectual disabilities, such as older people with cognitive impairment due to age, and for other groups, such as immigrants…

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HEINEKEN aims to be carbon neutral in production by 2030 and full value chain by 2040

Stuart Mitchell

HEINEKEN has announced a new ambition to decarbonise its own production by 2030 and its full value chain by 2040. This is the first in a series of refreshed Brew a Better World ambitions, which form an important part of the company’s new EverGreen balanced growth strategy. In this Decade of Action, we are committing to accelerating our actions to address climate change. We aim to be carbon neutral in our production sites by 2030 in order to meet the 1.5°C goal set by the Paris Agreement. We will further reduce our emissions through…

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Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership launches new Business Transformation Group

Stuart Mitchell

The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership has established a new collaborative leadership group of forward-looking international businesses to help companies set a truly sustainable business path across key areas such as nature, climate, circular economy and inequality. The Business Transformation Group, which includes Croda, dentsu international, Ingka Group (IKEA), and Majid Al Futtaim, will co-create and apply new thinking on inclusive, nature-positive, circular, net zero and resilient business strategies and models and this will inform the tools and new approaches to lead the corporate sector in meeting these…

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