Day: 14 September 2021

Leading Youth Charities join forces to solve the biggest post pandemic barriers for young people

Stuart Mitchell

Leading social mobility charities Speakers for Schools, UK Youth and Young Enterprise have joined forces to solve the biggest post-pandemic barriers facing young people. They are launching Youth Card, a free app that places career preparing opportunities directly into the hands of young people across the UK.The app aggregates the three charities’ own services, including: Access to the UK Youth network (currently standing at over 7000 youth organisations, providing youth work, outdoor learning and skills development activities.) Young Enterprise’s financial and enterprise programmes to develop skills, confidence and enterprising mindsets…

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UN Women launches a new flagship report, “Beyond COVID-19: A Feminist Plan for Sustainability

Stuart Mitchell

UN Women is launching a new flagship report, “Beyond COVID-19: A Feminist Plan for Sustainability and Social Justice”, which calls for governments to ensure the COVID-19 recovery shapes a more gender equal and sustainable world. The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to three urgent crises – on jobs, care and the environment – that undermine gender equality and threaten the survival of people and planet. The need for a plan to recover and transform economies has never been clearer. Drawing on the latest available data and the contributions of more than…

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NHSBT launches funding to increase support for living kidney donation following report

Stuart Mitchell

A new report published by NHS Blood and Transplant shows the impact of Covid-19 on organ donation and transplantation amongst Black, Asian and Mixed Race and minority ethnic patients, and in particular the effects of a reduction in living donation. The pandemic has had a significant impact on the numbers of living donor kidney transplants that could be performed, and as a result, the number of life-changing transplants, able to take place. While 444 patients were able to receive a transplant from a living donor over the year – an…

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Making a Difference Locally launches charity clothing banks

Stuart Mitchell

Nisa’s Making a Difference Locally charity has launched a new initiative to help retailers to raise additional funds for local causes, in the form of branded clothing banks. Designed to help put communities’ unwanted clothes to better use, reduce their environmental impact and also increase stores’ MADL funds to donate locally, charity clothing banks are now available for Nisa partners to order, following a successful trial which began earlier this year. The Making a Difference Locally clothing banks are available free of charge to retailers, in partnership with Nathan’s Waste…

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Household food waste rising as restrictions relaxed

Stuart Mitchell

The latest UK Food Trends Survey shows that self-reported food waste has rebounded to pre-lockdown levels as restrictions lift, and more food is potentially going to waste in UK homes as life returns to normal. The findings come from Love Food Hate Waste; the campaign delivered by environmental charity WRAP and is a snapshot of the UK’s food behaviours post-lockdown, from the longest-running survey of its kind. Love Food Hate Waste found that during lockdown many more people adopted positive food management behaviours that prevent food from going to waste…

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