Day: 13 January 2022

Hospitality industry strengthens its sustainability commitment as the Zero Carbon Forum adds further members

Stuart Mitchell

Five hospitality industry leaders have added their weight to the Zero Carbon Forum, becoming the latest members of the ambitious non-profit whose aim is to radically reduce emissions and achieve net zero in the hospitality industry. Those who have joined the forum in a show of industry collaboration include IHG Hotels & Resorts, McMullen’s Brewery, Wadworth Brewery, Côte Restaurant Group and Honest Burgers. A non-profit organisation with 33 of the UK’s leading restaurants, pubs and breweries as members, the Zero Carbon Forum is a collaborative action group dedicated to creating…

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Revolutionary impact investment firm, Path Financial, takes home the Better Society’s prestigious Green Finance Award

Stuart Mitchell

Path Financial, the first and only national financial advisory firm in the UK set up specifically to tackle the climate crisis, has had its efforts recognised and rewarded at this year’s prestigious Better Society Awards, by taking home the prize for the Green Finance Award. This has been an exceptional year of growth for Path, which has advised hundreds of thoughtful investors on how to see their money do well and do good, taken on 12 new team members and been named a winner in Sky’s Zero Footprint Fund which…

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Edinburgh Napier University students win Gold in DMA’s Breakthrough Award

Stuart Mitchell

One of the most prestigious awards for young talent trying to get a foothold in the data and marketing industry has been won by Jez Carr and Alex Schotten from Edinburgh Napier University. The campaign ‘Conscious Cup-ling’ won this year’s DMA Breakthrough Award, sponsored by PwC. The winners of the award was revealed during the DMA Awards night. Each year aspiring creatives battle it out for the chance to impress some of the biggest names in marketing by working on a live creative brief, for a real client or business.…

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Global fashion chain donates laptops to support homeless and refugees

Stuart Mitchell

British global fashion chain New Look has donated more than 1,000 laptops and computers, as part of a scheme to help some of the most vulnerable in society. The laptops, computers and other tech items, such as smartphones, have been delivered to several UK charities before Christmas, including The Passage, C4WS and Migrant Help. The donations are part of a wider project run by social enterprise SocialBox.Biz, founded by former child refugee Peter Paduh, to help tackle digital exclusion among the homeless, refugees and the elderly. The scheme distributes old…

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WaterAid launches animation to highlight how a lack of clean water keeps girls out of school

Stuart Mitchell

WaterAid has launched a new animation calling out the impact a lack of access to clean water and sanitation facilities has on girls’ education in Nepal and around the world.   The animation, titled ‘The girl who turned to water’, depicts girls in a classroom who wash away as water themselves to symbolise how having to walk to collect water keeps them from school. The animation is aimed at highlighting the inequality caused by a lack of access to clean water, while also raising money for the international charity’s Thirst for…

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