Day: 29 October 2022

Major National Photography Competition Launched

Stuart Mitchell

Historic England and Photoworks invite people to look at the high street as never before, charting and celebrating the history and experiences of the people and places that make up an often-overlooked fixture in all our lives. Over the next 12 months, people are encouraged to respond to a fortnightly challenge that uncovers the secret life of the high street, posting their own photographs on Instagram using #PicturingHighStreets. From celebrating local high street heroes that make our places so special; capturing favourite hang outs and meeting places; to recording the…

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Two million dogs vaccinated against the world’s deadliest disease by UK charity Mission Rabies

Stuart Mitchell

This World Rabies Day the global public health charity, Mission Rabies, is celebrating the milestone of vaccinating two million dogs worldwide against rabies. This is a result of the charity’s mass vaccination campaigns that have been running since 2013, in an effort to stop human deaths from rabies by 2030. World Rabies Day takes place on the 28th September each year, which marks the anniversary of Louis Pasteur’s death who administered the very first human rabies vaccine in 1885. Despite being vaccine preventable, rabies still claims the life of a…

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The PA Foundation announces 10 new global charity partners during PA Consulting’s first-ever Giving Back and Volunteering Week 

Stuart Mitchell

The PA Foundation announces its first cohort of charity partners. Over the next 12 months, The Foundation will work with 10 charities, focused on providing access to quality education, skills and careers for underserved groups – particularly in STEM. The charities are: Catch22 (UK) Dress for Success (US) Helena Kennedy Foundation (UK) Lær for Livet / Learn for Life (Denmark) Making the Leap (UK) Raspberry Pi Foundation (UK and US) The Economist Educational Foundation (Global) UAF (Netherlands) Upwardly Global (US) Veterans Aid (UK) The PA Foundation aims to develop and inspire…

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Uluru Statement Leaders Release Ad Campaign In Support of First Nations Voice Referendum

Stuart Mitchell

The Uluru Statement has released an ad to support its Voice referendum campaign History is Calling, informing the Australian public on how voting “Yes” for a First Nations Voice will change history. Created by The Monkeys, part of Accenture Song, and Rabbit Content, the ad campaign centres around narrator, proud Pitjantjatjara and Nyungar man Trevor Jamieson, as he tells a story about how First Peoples achieved a Voice to Parliament with the help of Australians everywhere. The story illustrates what a future might be if we all supported the Voice…

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Big Issue Group calls on organisations to back a new specialist recruitment service which will support people who face barriers to sustainable employment

Stuart Mitchell

The Big Issue Group is calling on businesses to back a new UK wide recruitment service called ‘Big Issue Recruit’. The service offers people who are further from the labour market access to their desired job roles by pairing them with personal Job Coaches. In the wake of the cost-of-living crisis and record levels of poverty and inequality, there are now close to 15 million people in the UK trapped in poverty. But while unemployment has fallen to its lowest level in 30 years, with 1.26m unemployed people actively seeking…

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