Month: January 2022

Royal Armouries partners with Violence Reduction Unit for a new gallery display

Stuart Mitchell

The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds is announcing an innovative partnership with West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit to create a new gallery display. The Royal Armouries is collaborating with the unit which takes a unique public health led approach to tackle the underlying causes of violent crime. The West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit brings together specialists from health, police, education, youth justice, prisons, probation, and community groups to help cut violent crime. The compact new display, entitled ‘At the Sharp End: Tackling Violent Crime Together in West Yorkshire’, is due…

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Expensify is Carbon Neutral in 2021

Stuart Mitchell

Expensify, a payments superapp that helps individuals and businesses around the world simplify the way they manage money, announced carbon neutrality in 2021 by completely offsetting its annual carbon footprint. To support its path to carbon neutrality, Expensify leveraged Watershed, the software platform helping companies run a world-class climate program. To meaningfully offset its carbon footprint, Expensify is supporting Brazil Nut Concessions, which prevents deforestation and protects biodiversity on 500,000 acres in the Peruvian Amazon. The project affects over 300 small concessioner landowners aimed at refocusing the local economy towards…

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ASA – New guidance aims to ensure in-game purchases are advertised responsibly

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: New guidance aims to ensure in-game purchases are advertised responsibly. 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. We have published guidance for advertisers to help them ensure that in-game purchases are marketed responsibly.   The guidance aims to ensure consumers are better protected, amidst increased awareness of concerns about the potential for in-game purchasing to mislead consumers.…

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Morrisons scrapping ‘use by’ dates from milk to help customers reduce waste

Stuart Mitchell

From 31 January Morrisons will scrap ‘Use By’ dates on 90 per cent of its own brand milk – and encourage its customers to use a sniff test – to help to reduce food waste in the home.  Morrisons anticipates the move will stop millions of pints of its own brand milk from being thrown away every year.  ‘Use By’ dates will be scrapped from Morrisons own brand British and Scottish milks, Morrisons For Farmers milks and Morrisons organic milks in store – supplied into Morrisons by Arla farmers. Morrisons…

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Big brands and everyday essentials in reusable packaging: Loop launches in Tesco stores

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has launched a ground-breaking way for its customers to shop that allows them to buy a wide range of food, drink, household and beauty products in reusable and durable packaging. In partnership with global reusable packaging platform, Loop, customers in ten large Tesco stores in the east of England will be able to buy products in reusable packaging that can be returned to store when finished so it can be cleaned, refilled and used again. The new reusable range of 88 products will include some of the UK’s biggest…

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