Year: 2022

Enterprise Rent-A-Car and The Global FoodBanking Network’s £1 million donation helps support families this summer

Stuart Mitchell

Enterprise Rent-A-Car and The Global FoodBanking Network are helping to unlock good-to-eat food for thousands of families over the summer months, as the cost-of-living crisis continues to push the most vulnerable across the UK into poverty. Following a generous £1 million donation in January, FareShare has been able to increase its capacity to source food. The support from Enterprise Rent-A-Car and The Global FoodBanking Network has already played an increasingly pivotal part in FareShare’s Surplus with Purpose Fund over the summer, covering the cost for farmers to divert good-to-eat food…

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Vattenfall’s Annual and Sustainability Report 2021:A year of increased climate ambitions and important steps towards fossil free living

Stuart Mitchell

In 2021 Vattenfall further increased its emission reduction target for 2030 and beyond, setting some of the most ambitious climate change targets in the energy sector. Emissions intensity will now be reduced by 77 percent from 2017 to 2030, achieving net zero in the full value chain by 2040. Already in 2020, Vattenfall achieved the target of reducing absolute CO2 emissions by nearly 40% from 2017 – ten years ahead of schedule. The new target were set to support limiting global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees. They are…

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Amazon Literary Partnership Announces 2022 Grant Recipients

Stuart Mitchell

The Amazon Literary Partnership announced more than $1 million in grant funding to 74 literary nonprofits across the U.S. A longtime champion of the written word, Amazon Literary Partnership’s funding supports groups that are working to empower diverse, marginalized, and underrepresented voices, helping writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive in 2022 and beyond. Included in this year’s cohort are 10 first-time grant recipient organizations. For the fourth time, the Amazon Literary Partnership has also awarded grants of $140,000 each to the Academy of American Poets and to…

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Zero Carbon Forum appoints Bob Gordon as new Forum Director

Stuart Mitchell

The Zero Carbon Forum announces the appointment of Bob Gordon as its new Forum Director. Bob’s remit is to grow the Forum’s membership and services, to further accelerate the sector’s transition to net zero. The non-profit, collaborative action group is dedicated to empowering hospitality to achieve net zero emissions at pace and currently has 35 of the UK’s leading restaurants, pubs and breweries as members including Burger King UK, Nando’s UK and IRE, and Fridays. A passionate and experienced environmentalist, Bob joins the team with over 15 years’ experience working…

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Lloyds Banking Group opens new Changing Places facility

Stuart Mitchell

Lloyds Banking Group is the first bank to open an accessible Changing Places facility in Old Broad Street, London. Last month on 19th July was Changing Places Awareness Day which helps raise awareness of the life changing difference Changing Places facilities make to people with disabilities. A Changing Places toilet provides a hygienic and comfortable facility for people with disabilities and their carers. Larger than a standard accessible facility, it offers space to manoeuvre a wheelchair, with up to two carers present. The toilet includes a height-adjustable changing bench and…

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