Consumers’ healthy-eating choices wane as cost of living bites

The number of adults saying they are coping on their current salary has fallen 5.5% since pre-2020 lockdown, with only half of young adults and just under two-thirds of women saying they are coping on their current income. Meanwhile, the number of adults preferring to eat organic food has fallen by almost a third in early 2022 particularly among younger generations and women, and the number of all adults preferring not to buy food that has been genetically modified has dropped by almost 40%. These are just some of the…

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Barnardo’s launches Transport for Freedom campaign

Young people leaving care who are struggling to gain employment or visit friends and family should be provided with free bus travel, ​​​​says Barnardo’s​​​. With free bus travel already provided to older and disabled people through the English National Concessionary Travel Scheme, Barnardo’s has launched its new Freedom for Transport campaign urging the Government to extend this support to all those leaving social care aged 18-25 in England. Children growing up in care are three times less likely to be in education, employment, or training than other young people their…

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Aldi responds to call to #GetOnARoll by including cancer symptoms on toilet roll packs

Aldi is to add signs and symptoms of bowel cancer to all its packs of own brand toilet roll in response to Bowel Cancer UK’s #GetOnARoll campaign. Bowel cancer is the UK’s fourth most common cancer and the second biggest cancer killer. Yet almost half of adults around the UK could not name a single symptom of bowel cancer in a recent survey. Red flag symptoms include changes in bowel habit and bleeding from your bottom and/or blood in your poo, which can all be noticed while people are on…

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$12 Million Gift To Muskegon Museum of Art Boosts Michigan’s Status in Promoting Art by Women

The Muskegon Museum of Art will soon be home to one of the only museums in the world to have a permanent space dedicated solely to the work of women artists, thanks to gifts totaling $12 million from two of the country’s leading art collectors. More than 150 works of art – painted by women in the figurative realist style – have been given to the Muskegon Museum of Art by art collectors and champions of gender equality, Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt. Their donation also includes…

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WWF and CI to Co-lead Launch of the Science Based Targets Network Ocean Hub

The Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) Ocean Hub officially launched its first workstream: Seafood Value Chains. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Conservation International (CI) will co-lead the workstream to help companies adopt a roadmap for integrated action on nature and climate. The announcement comes as world leaders meet in Lisbon, Portugal, for the United Nations Oceans Conference, focused on “Scaling up Ocean Action Based on Science and Innovation for the Implementation of Goal 14: Stocktaking, Partnerships, and Solutions.” “Our oceans today may be facing unprecedented challenges, but a nature-positive future…

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