Day: 12 November 2022

Bond launches guide for INGOs on how to become locally led as an anti-racist practice

Stuart Mitchell

Bond, the UK network of international development organisations, has launched a comprehensive guide to support INGOs in becoming locally led. Taking a locally led approach is a means to redress unjust and entrenched power imbalances between them and the communities they work with. The free online resource, Becoming Locally Led as an Anti-Racist Practice, has been put together by Bond and some of its members including All We Can, SOS Children’s Villages UK, Integrity Action, Transform Trade. It was developed with the support of The Social Investment Consultancy. A locally…

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Temasek Trust announces Philanthropy Asia Alliance

Stuart Mitchell

Temasek Trust announced the initiation of Philanthropy Asia Alliance (the “Alliance”) at the annual Philanthropy Asia Summit (the “Summit”). The new not-for-profit initiative aims to catalyse collective action for a better world, and prime Asia as a force for the greater good. It will work to develop thought and action leadership in philanthropy, and enable scalable impact through multi-sector partnerships and alliances. Asia is a vibrant and diverse region with 60% of the world’s population. Its scale and development profile present considerable and unprecedented opportunity. Yet, it is also a…

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UK’s wardrobes hold 1.6 billion items of unworn clothes People open to new ways of shopping

Stuart Mitchell

The largest study into clothing habits ever undertaken by climate action NGO WRAP shows changes over the last 8 years around how long we retain our clothes, and how our openness to new ways of clothes ‘shopping’ could significantly reduce the environmental cost of clothing the nation – and save shoppers millions of pounds. Between 2013 and 2021, the predicted length of time people in the UK kept a range of clothes increased. Today, non-padded coats and jackets have the longest lifespans at more than six years apiece, while underwear…

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Vanish & Havas London named winner of Channel 4’s 2022 £1m Diversity in Advertising Award

Stuart Mitchell

Channel 4 & 4Sales have revealed Vanish and creative agency Havas London as the winner of its prestigious £1 million Diversity in Advertising Award 2022. The 2022 brief encouraged brands to tackle the on-going lack of authentic portrayal and representation of Visible or Non-Visible Disabilities, to which Vanish & creative agency Havas London responded with a powerful and moving idea, created in partnership with charity Ambitious about Autism, to help girls be seen as part of a broader public understanding of autism. This marks the first time Channel 4 has…

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CAP – Children’s Recognition of Online Ads

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called:  Children’s Recognition of Online Ads. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. It is essential that you know when you are being advertised to.  Unless it is already apparent from context, clear ad disclosure is important regardless of the age of the audience.  It allows consumers to recognise the commercial intent behind the messaging of an…

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