Day: 5 March 2022

New Year Brings New Commitments To Protect World’s Forests

Stuart Mitchell

35 brands, three producers, and two innovators from around the globe, including online fashion and lifestyle platform Zalando, fashion brands Mango, ba&sh, and Ardene, and luxury shoe brand Nicholas Kirkwood have committed to revolutionizing their packaging supply chains to protect vital forests all over the planet. The brands are joining environmental organization Canopy’s Pack4Good initiative. Pack4Good works with global brands and innovators to address the massive and growing forest footprint of paper packaging. Every year three billion trees, an area of forest about the size of Germany, are cut down…

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Nominations open for 2022 Black British Business Awards

Stuart Mitchell

Nominations have officially opened for the ninth Black British Business Awards (BBBAwards) ahead of its Awards Ceremony in September. For almost a decade, the BBBAwards have shone a light on the exceptional achievements of Black British business professionals and entrepreneurs who have made extraordinary contributions to the UK economy. This year’s Ceremony will be held in the city of London on the 29th September. Since their inception, the BBBAwards and its portfolio of change programs have facilitated impactful and enduring cultural change in companies across various sectors, ensuring greater representation…

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Idolised To Abused: One In Three Nurses And ICU Staff Are Suffering From PTSD

Stuart Mitchell

The Healthcare Workers’ Foundation (HWF), the charity started by and for healthcare workers in the midst of the pandemic, shares harrowing realities of three healthcare workers who have – like all frontline staff –battled with numerous professional and personal challenges since the pandemic struck. With a cocktail of issues currently impacting the livelihoods of NHS staff – ranging from the impact of omicron, staff shortages, treatment backlogs, extreme and widespread exhaustion, squeezed wages and racism – healthcare workers have also reported experiencing verbal and emotional abuse from patients who too…

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CIM and the Australian Marketing Institute announce joint-partnership

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) announced a partnership to support marketers in the UK and Australia. Members of CIM and the AMI will be able to take advantage of a joint membership at a preferential rate, allowing for best practice, training and resources to be shared. The partnership is designed to provide a synergistic response to the challenges marketers face, promoting the sharing of ideas and driving innovation. The joint membership will enable AMI members who are also CIM members to benefit from…

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Dementia UK voted Invesco’s Charity Partner 2022-23

Stuart Mitchell

The Invesco Cares Foundation is delighted to announce that its UK employees have voted for Dementia UK to be its charity partner for 2022-2023. Charities nominated by Invesco staff members had been narrowed down to three, and Dementia UK – the dementia specialist nurse charity – secured almost half of the votes to become the main recipient of funds raised by the firm over the next two years. The money will go towards funding two specialist dementia Admiral Nurses in the London area, where there are huge gaps in care…

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