Month: September 2021

Vodafone offers free connectivity to help not-for-profit organisations tackle digital exclusion

Stuart Mitchell

Vodafone has launched charities.connected, an initiative giving any charity in the UK the opportunity to apply for free connectivity to help the individuals and families it supports get online and improve its own digital capability. This is part of Vodafone’s recently announced commitment to tackle digital exclusion and connect  one million people by the end of 2022. Registered charities can apply for the free connectivity, in the form of SIM cards with 20GB of data, plus free calls and texts every month for six months. The pandemic has highlighted the…

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Welcome to Human Rights Town!

Stuart Mitchell

The  Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities (SCLD) has launched a new app, ‘Human Rights Town’, designed to help people with learning disabilities to understand their human rights.    The development of the app has been led by a group of people with learning disabilities who have been working with SCLD and digital design company, Publishing Bureau, to create the finished product.    The app invites users to travel around a virtual ‘Human Rights Town’ where they encounter different scenarios at each location, such as using public transport or working at the supermarket.   Through practical examples ‘Human Rights Town’ introduces users to several of their human rights under the United Nations Convention on…

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OLIO Food Waste Heroes have saved five million meals by working with Tesco

Stuart Mitchell

Thousands of food waste heroes have stopped more than five million meals from going to waste in the past year, thanks to a ground-breaking partnership between Tesco and OLIO.  In August last year Tesco became the first supermarket to partner with the food sharing app to provide unsold surplus food fit for consumption to people in the community and prevent it from going to waste.  In the first full year of the partnership OLIO’s network of more than 3,700 Food Waste Heroes has helped to save 5.6m meals from Tesco…

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Co-op Insurance celebrates 15 years of carbon offsetting as Co-op Group launches new net zero target

Stuart Mitchell

Co-op Insurance is marking fifteen years of offsetting CO2 car emissions – over one million tonnes – at the same time as Co-op Group unveils an ambitious new climate change action plan which will see it achieve net zero status by 2040, ten years ahead of the Government’s own ambition. The plan, released earlier this year (5 May), sets out targets, endorsed by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), to cap global temperature increases and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, which came into force in 2016 and created…

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CAP – Eyes down for compliant advertising! Bingo ads and the Advertising Codes

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Eyes down for compliant advertising! Bingo ads and the Advertising Codes. 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. Ads for bingo products will be treated the same as betting products, so will be subject to the ‘Gambling’ section of the Ad Codes. The Codes state that ads must be socially responsible, and should not portray, condone…

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