Day: 1 September 2022

The Co-Operative Bank Tackles Financial Exclusion Through Its Bridge To Banking Initiative

Stuart Mitchell

The Co-operative Bank has launched a new initiative in partnership with youth homelessness charity Centrepoint, to help financially excluded, homeless young people in Manchester to access basic banking products. A critical issue that homeless individuals face in accessing financial services is the absence of a fixed address. Acknowledging this, the Bank is collaborating with Centrepoint to pilot an innovative solution – young homeless people in Manchester can use Centrepoint’s address as their own, prior to establishing a safe, permanent address. Centrepoint’s advisors will signpost young people who require banking facilities…

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Greenpeace UK appoints joint Executive Directors

Stuart Mitchell

Greenpeace UK has appointed Areeba Hamid and Will McCallum as its new joint Executive Directors.  This is the first time in the decades-long history of the environmental group’s UK office that the role has been held by two people. Areeba and Will take over from interim Executive Director Pat Venditti in October. Areeba, 39, is currently Global Finance Program Director at The Sunrise Project, a global network of changemakers focusing on ending all financial support for fossil fuels through building movements. She is also a board member of the Joint…

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Aussie adtech company Veridooh launches in the UK as part of global expansion plans

Stuart Mitchell

Australian adtech company Veridooh has launched in the UK as part of its plans to take its independent out-of-home (OOH) verification solution to new markets around the world. Veridooh’s patent-pending, proprietary solution, SmartCreativeTM, independently collects all the data needed to track, measure, and verify the performance of DOOH campaigns. Founded in 2019 by Mo Moubayed and Jeremy Yang, Veridooh is already the preferred verification partner for GroupM, Omnicom Media Group, and IPG Mediabrands in Australia and its clients include some of the biggest global brands such as Unilever, McDonald’s, Google,…

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10p bag charge in the UK turns the tide on plastic waste

Stuart Mitchell

Billions of harmful plastic bags have been stopped thanks to the single-use carrier bag charge, new figures reveal today. The 5p charge was introduced in supermarkets in 2015 and since then usage at the main retailers has dropped by a staggering 97%. Meanwhile, over £200 million has been voluntarily donated by retailers to good causes in that time. As a result of the charge, the average person in England now buys around three single-use carrier bags a year from the main supermarkets, compared with around 140 in 2014. The charge…

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bp to invest up to £50 million in new global battery research and development centre in Britain

Stuart Mitchell

bp has unveiled plans to invest up to £50 million (around $60 million) in a new, state-of-the-art electric vehicle (EV) battery testing centre and analytical laboratory in the UK. bp has previously announced its intention to invest up to £18 billion in the UK’s energy system by the end of 2030; this additional new investment is a further example of bp’s commitment to the country. Planned to open by the end of 2024, the new facilities will be located at bp’s existing global headquarters for its Castrol business in Pangbourne,…

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