Month: March 2022

Latest annual impact report shows mainstream social investment fund supporting the Covid-19 recovery

Stuart Mitchell

The Big Issue Group has released the seventh Annual Impact Report for the Threadneedle UK Social Bond Fund, as part of the fund’s disclosure to investors. The report assesses the degree to which the investment strategy’s impact objective to support more inclusive and sustainable development in the UK[1] has been achieved. Launched in 2014 as the UK’s first mainstream, fixed income social investment offering, the fund is a partnership between global asset management firm Columbia Threadneedle Investments and The Big Issue Group, who acts as the social advisor to the…

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Currensea appoints new Head of Charity and Corporate Partnerships to grow ‘powered by’ programme allowing charities to issue branded cards to drive donations

Stuart Mitchell

Currensea, which has created a money-saving debit card linked to existing bank accounts, has created a new Head of Charity and Corporate Partnerships role to develop its ‘powered by’ offering for charities and corporate partners. Rory Maclean has joined Currensea from Givergy, an award-winning fundraising platform, where he was Head of Sales and responsible for helping hundreds of charities and corporates maximise their fundraising at events and online. Prior to this, Rory was also Business Development Manager at Givergy, a former winner of the Institute of Fundraising’s Best Digital /…

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More than half of parents and pregnant women exposed to aggressive formula milk marketing

Stuart Mitchell

More than half of parents and pregnant women (51 per cent) surveyed for a new WHO/UNICEF report say they have been targeted with marketing from formula milk companies, much of which is in breach of international standards on infant feeding practices.   The report, How marketing of formula milk influences our decisions on infant feeding (https://uni.cf/3LXgXHt), draws on interviews with parents, pregnant women and health workers in eight countries. It uncovers systematic and unethical marketing strategies used by the formula milk industry – now worth a staggering US$55 billion – to…

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Paid-for advertising desperately needed in the Online Safety Bill amid epidemic of fraud, Which? warns

Stuart Mitchell

Consumers believe social media platforms and search engines are failing to adequately protect them from scams, new Which? research has revealed – highlighting why the inclusion of paid-for advertising in the Online Safety Bill is desperately needed.  The consumer champion, alongside online scam victims, MPs and consumer and business organisations, is today calling on Nadine Dorries, Secretary of State for DCMS, and the government to include paid-for advertising in the Online Safety Bill to help tackle an epidemic of scams gripping society.  Which?’s research found that four in 10 (43%)…

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The Human Rights Campaign Foundation Releases 20th Corporate Equality Index & Announces New, Robust Criteria

Stuart Mitchell

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, released its 2022 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), which is celebrating 20 years of being the nation’s foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring company policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality. This year, a record-breaking 842 businesses employing 14.3 million workers earned the CEI’s top score of 100, up from only 13 in its inaugural year—demonstrating the incredible impact the CEI has had on the business world over…

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