Day: 27 October 2022

The Creative Shootout 2023 Opens for Entry

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s radical done in a day creative award is back, for its sixth year. Open for entry now, The Creative Shootout is calling on agencies from any marketing discipline to show off their creative clout for this year’s Charity of the Year, FoodCycle. FoodCycle supports communities across the UK; feeding the hungry, providing company and warmth to the lonely, all while using food which would otherwise go to waste. Agencies have from 26th September until close Monday 28th November to submit an entry via www.creativeshootout.com. The entry can be…

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Reebok Founder launches #RaisingAMillion campaign

Stuart Mitchell

LetsLocalise #RaisingAMillion campaign is being launched by Reebok Founder, Joe Foster to help state schools in Birmingham, and nationwide, meet increasingly basic needs – from school meals, pencils and books to sports equipment and hand sanitiser – after budgets drop to 2010 levels in real terms and calls for help escalate.  Joe Foster, Chairperson of LetsLocalise, a digital and social innovation platform for state schools, local communities and businesses, is giving his time, contacts and business skills to lead the #RaisingAMillion campaign to help 1 million schoolchildren across the UK…

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Getty Images and GLAAD Challenge Global Creatives to Break Visual Stereotypes Faced by the LGBTQ+ Community

Stuart Mitchell

Getty Images, a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, in collaboration with GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organisation, has announced its latest global creative grant of US$25,000 focused on the Chosen Family. The grant seeks diverse perspectives, photographers and videographers to help increase visibility of the LGBTQ+ community while also challenging harmful, cliched visual stereotypes. This grant will provide financial support and mentorship to content creators who are authentically showcasing and exploring celebrations, events and actions across a broad range of people and…

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Global generosity growth as more people donate and help strangers 

Stuart Mitchell

More people donated money to charity and helped a stranger last year than in any year of the previous decade, according to the Charities Aid Foundation’s World Giving Index 2022. Around the world, 3 billion people helped someone they didn’t know last year, increasing by approximately half a billion compared to prior to the pandemic.  Around 200 million more people also donated money to charity worldwide, with donations rising by 10% in high-income economies. The World Giving Index is one of the biggest surveys into giving ever produced with nearly…

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WRAP shows G7 how to save 0.8 billion tonnes of CO2eq emissions with greater focus on consumption-based emissions

Stuart Mitchell

Global climate action NGO WRAP has produced a report for the G7 in support of the seismic shift in international strategies tackling greenhouse gas emissions expected to take place soon, and to help address the massive volume of greenhouse gases linked to ‘consumption’ currently passing unchecked into the atmosphere every year. With G7 countries controlling or influencing a quarter (27%) of all global emissions, WRAP welcomed the announcement earlier this year that the G7 would increase focus on making resource efficiency and circular economy the norm and pursuing sustainable consumption…

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