Month: February 2022

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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100 CEOs Now on Board to Advance Disability Inclusion

Stuart Mitchell

Disability:IN, the global organization driving disability inclusion and equality in business, today announced that 100 CEOs have signed the CEO Letter on Disability Inclusion as part of Disability:IN’s global ‘CEOs Are IN’ campaign. In the letter, CEOs call on peers to follow their lead and evaluate their corporate inclusion progress by taking the Disability Equality Index (DEI). Over the last month, the CEOs of Boeing, Hilton, Micron Technology, Tripadvisor and The Estée Lauder Companies have become signatories, joining Fortune 500, tech and healthcare CEOs who are making disability inclusion a…

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IKEA releases Sustainability Report FY21 and confirms being on track towards 2030 climate commitment

Stuart Mitchell

The financial year 2021 (FY21)* was a year of both challenges and important movements towards the IKEA 2030 commitments. Although the effects of the pandemic continued, nearly all stores could re-open, and everyday life returned to something more familiar. Important sustainability achievements include improvements throughout the value chain to further reduce the IKEA climate footprint in absolute terms compared to baseline FY16, the launch of an interactive online circular product design tool, and taking a big step towards using only renewable energy across the value chain. The IKEA Sustainability Report…

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