Month: August 2022

Women left with half the pension pot, no matter the job

Stuart Mitchell

Women’s pensions at retirement are half the size of men’s (£12,000 versus £26,000), regardless of the sector they work in. More than a third (38%) of women who have taken a career break did not know the long-term financial impact it would have on their pension. Legal & General is calling for all companies and pension providers to disclose their gender pensions gap, to raise awareness of it and work together to help close it across all sectors. Analysis1 of more than 4.5 million savers has found that that every…

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Buzzacott and Bond launch Governance guide for UK international NGOs

Stuart Mitchell

In the current context, where NGOs are increasingly challenged about their legitimacy and their position in the development ecosystem, the trustee role and the question “what does good governance look like?” has never been more complex. How does a board support organisational transformation, set appropriate, visible examples, lead on culture, and rethink its business models to ensure that it “does no harm”? Buzzacott and Bond have launched a Governance guide for UK international NGOs. This guide is intended to go some way to help you address these issues and assess…

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International Circular Plastics Flagship Competition awards grants in key regions around the world

Stuart Mitchell

WRAP’s first International Grants competition, The International Circular Plastics Flagship Competition – developed and delivered in partnership with UKRI – has awarded funding of £1.2 million to six UK based innovators to work with international partners to tackle plastic related issues in India, Chile, South Africa and Kenya. With Earth Overshoot Day highlighting the shocking state of global resource depletion, these projects offer practical solutions to help reduce the environmental footprint made by our use of plastics. The six projects will help towards transformation the plastics system by stopping waste, addressing…

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FareShare appoints Alan Gosschalk to its board of trustees

Stuart Mitchell

FareShare UK has appointed Alan Gosschalk to its board of Trustees. Alan brings over twenty years of experience as Fundraising Director for leading charities including Scope, RNID and Shelter, where he more than doubled the charity’s voluntary income during his nine-year stint leading the fundraising team. Since 2018 Alan has been Director of Fundraising at Plan International UK, part of the global children’s charity advancing children’s rights and equality for girls in more than 70 countries. Alan is an experienced Trustee with 10 years at Hope and Homes for Children…

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UN Women Executive Board to convene second regular session 2022

Stuart Mitchell

The UN Women Executive Board will convene for its second regular session from Tuesday 13 to Wednesday 14 September 2022 in person at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The session will begin on Tuesday 13 September at 10am EDT with the election by acclamation of the President of the Executive Board, H.E. Muhammad Abdul Muhith, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations. He will then open the session, followed by the UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous, who will deliver her statement. Over the two days, the…

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