Day: 24 February 2022

Barnardo’s To Help Professionals Keep Children Safe Online In New Programme Funded By Nominet

Stuart Mitchell

Barnardo’s, the UK’s largest children’s charity, is to create a new digital service that will give professionals supporting children instant access to relevant knowledge and advice, to help them respond with confidence to the continuously evolving challenges young people face online. Funded by Nominet, and working with Parent Zone, Barnardo’s Project Backpack will combine expert knowledge and data with children’s views and feedback, to transform how young people are supported in their digital lives.  Project Backpack will be available to parents and professionals later this year and follows research commissioned by Nominet (Keeping…

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Healthcare Workers’ Foundation Appoints Charity Veteran, Julie Child, As Chief Executive

Stuart Mitchell

The Healthcare Workers’ Foundation (HWF), the charity started by and for healthcare workers in the midst of the pandemic, has appointed Julie Child as Chief Executive to lead the charity’s activity. Working closely with the charity’s Founder and Chairman, Dr Dominic Pimenta, Julie will spearhead the charity’s strategy as the NHS and healthcare workers continue grappling with the UK’s pandemic recovery. The appointment marks the next step in HWF’s journey, having launched not long after the UK faced its first major lockdown in early 2020. Julie’s appointment will ensure the…

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Make Seconds Count Celebrates £1million Fundraising Milestone   

Stuart Mitchell

Secondary breast cancer charity Make 2nds Count has a million reasons to mark the occasion after reaching a phenomenal fundraising milestone.  Hitting the £1million mark is bringing hope to those living with the forgotten form of cancer through financing vital research at universities across the UK and providing much-needed support for patients and families.  The disease – also known as metastatic, a​dvanced or stage IV breast cancer – is an incurable cancer that has spread beyond the breast to other parts of the body.  It can be treated but, on average, there…

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Big Issue Invest investment cements Village Underground as East London’s leading live music venue owner-operator

Stuart Mitchell

Big Issue Invest (BII) has committed to a significant new investment in VU X Earth Limited (“VU”), a social enterprise, and owner of the Village Underground and EartH Hackney live performance venues in London. The growth funding for planned capital expenditure will allow improvements to the EartH performance venues and additional refurbishment to be undertaken so that the business can establish the training workspace needed to train young people entering the industry. The funding will allow Village Underground and EartH to extend their reach to young talent through creative development…

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ASA – ASA publishes findings on racial and ethnic stereotyping in ads

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called:  ASA publishes findings on racial and ethnic stereotyping in ads. 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 the findings of a major project which looked at the extent to which portrayal of race or ethnicity in UK ads might give rise to harm or serious offence, including by reinforcing adverse stereotypes.  The findings both…

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