Day: 12 December 2022

The Sean Connery Foundation launches

Stuart Mitchell

Two years after the passing of Sir Sean Connery, the Connery Family is proud to announce the establishment of The Sean Connery Foundation. Created by his estate, the foundation seeks to honour Sir Sean’s legacy through strategic grantmaking to institutions and organisations in Scotland and The Bahamas, the two countries he called home. Within these locations, the goal of the foundation is to accelerate positive change in areas of interest and importance to Sir Sean and his family, with an emphasis on education and ocean conservation.  Stephane Connery, Sean’s son…

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National Grid announces £50 million energy support fund for this winter and next

Stuart Mitchell

National Grid has recently launched a £50 million support fund to help alleviate financial distress caused by rising energy costs. Over the next two winters, the fund will make significant donations to organisations working on the front line of the energy crisis. The fund will be targeted at charities who provide immediate, emergency financial relief to households using pre-payment energy meters; charities who fund energy efficiency measures to lower bills over the long-term; and charities providing advisory services for households who need help with energy bills, payments and debt. Money…

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Tesco cuts plastic from bakery favourites and returns to selling bread loose

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco is rewinding the clock back to the days of traditional bakeries by removing plastic from a number of its most popular items and selling loose loaves of bread.     The moves will result in the annual removal of 33 million pieces of plastic from loaves of bread and doughnuts, and reduce the plastic used to pack breakfast pastries by more than 120 tonnes each year.    Nearly 25 of the supermarket’s in-store bakery bread lines are now being sold loose, although customers can request a paper bag should they want one.  Doughnuts…

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Amazon and USAID Launch Effort to Boost Climate Funding for Women

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are launching a public-private partnership to address the gender inequities that exist for women in the climate finance ecosystem and support female entrepreneurs with the resources they need to accelerate climate change innovations. Amazon will commit a total of $53 million to help accelerate women’s climate solutions, including $3 million toward the USAID partnership and $50 million for Amazon to invest directly in climate tech companies run by women. Amazon will serve as a founding partner of USAID’s Climate Gender Equity…

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Mortierbrigade: Apply your skills to the household

Stuart Mitchell

Equal Pay Day and mortierbrigade have been closing the wage gap between men and women for the past 18 years. And you wouldn’t be wrong to call it a success story, because the wage gap became smaller, laws concerning this topic were altered, the matter has been on the political agenda every year and the campaigns are amongst some of the most awarded of our country, nationally and globally. This success story got noticed abroad as well. That is why mortierbrigade was appointed to create a campaign that will run…

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