Month: September 2022

Assembly Hires Gaby Sethi as Global Head of Impact

Stuart Mitchell

Global omnichannel agency and Ad Age Purpose-Led Agency of the Year, Assembly, has brought on Gaby Sethi as our new Global Head of Impact. Gaby will strengthen the agency’s social and environmental impact proposition and lead a comprehensive strategy globally to deliver meaningful and measurable impact, with a key initiative being the agency’s achievement of B Corp certification. Gaby joins Assembly with an impressive background in the impact space, having most recently led OVO Foundation, the philanthropic arm of OVO Energy. With Purpose – inclusive of People, Impact, and BI E&D (Belonging, Inclusion,…

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ScottishPower vision for green hydrogen fuels hub at port of Felixstowe

Stuart Mitchell

ScottishPower, with Hutchison Ports, is exploring the opportunity to develop, build and operate a multi-hundred MW green hydrogen production facility at the Port of Felixstowe – with the potential to decarbonise industry and transportation in the region. Both companies have set out their vision to help create a greener port, which could provide clean fuel for customers at Britain’s busiest container port.   Plans are being developed to use green hydrogen for onshore purposes, such as road, rail and industrial use, with the potential to create liquid forms, such as…

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Community Ownership key to levelling up Britain’s high streets according to new research

Stuart Mitchell

A new report from the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University, commissioned by Power to Change, Community businesses and high streets: ‘taking back’ and leading forward has shone light on the need and opportunity for supporting communities to save ailing high streets and support the levelling up agenda. According to the research, community businesses – businesses that are owned and ran by and for their local communities – are already contributing to high street regeneration, increasing footfall by offering spaces and services that differ from…

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Celebrating the UK’s Best Community-owned Businesses

Stuart Mitchell

To recognise and celebrate the community businesses and their volunteers that go that extra mile to help their communities Plunkett Foundation is launching its annual Rural Community Business Awards. Across the UK a growing number of 800 community-owned businesses are creating resilient, thriving and inclusive rural towns and villages. Whether a shop, farm, bakery, woodland or pub – their much valued services help tackle rural issues of isolation, loneliness, access to essential goods, provide jobs and training, help the environment and create amazing opportunities to bring people together to improve…

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Royal Bank of Scotland seeks donations for Ukraine support at national welcome centre

Stuart Mitchell

Royal Bank of Scotland has set up a dedicated donation distribution hub for Ukrainian refugees arriving in the capital. The hub runs alongside the Welcome Centre for Scotland, which was created through a partnership between the City of Edinburgh Council and local partners, and hosted within Royal Bank’s Gogarburn headquarters. Using funding issued by the Scottish Government to local authorities to support welcome efforts, the Welcome Centre opened its doors earlier this year to support those resettling in the country and has been the first port of call for thousands…

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