Month: January 2023

London-based community group using educational workshops to protect young people from Female Genital Mutilation receives a share of nearly £17 million National Lottery funding

Stuart Mitchell

A London-based community group running workshops to educate students and health professionals on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is expanding their service after receiving almost £10,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK. Educate Not Mutilate project Educate Not Mutilate is one of almost 400 charities and community groups in London, doing vital work with communities, to receive a share of nearly £17 million in funding from The National Lottery Community Fund in the last three months.* Hibo Wardere, co-founder of Educate Not…

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New £2.5 million Electricals Recycling Fund launched to help tackle the growing e-waste challenge

Stuart Mitchell

Material Focus, the not-for-profit leading the UK’s Recycle Your Electricals campaign, is launching a new £2.5 million funding opportunity to make it easier for UK householders to recycle their electricals. Material Focus’ “Electricals Recycling Fund” will fund two types of projects – those seeking to add household electricals collection services using existing infrastructure, and those seeking to innovate new methods for collecting small household electricals for recycling. Waste electricals are the fastest growing waste stream in the world, and in the UK we are hoarding 527 million electrical items, and…

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Cloudflare Makes Zero Trust Security Free for At-Risk Groups like Non-Profits, Public Interest Groups, and Election Sites

Stuart Mitchell

Cloudflare, Inc., the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today announced that the Cloudflare One suite of Zero Trust security tools is available at no cost to at-risk public interest groups that are part of Cloudflare’s Project Galileo, as well as local and state election sites part of Cloudflare’s Athenian Project. These organizations will now have access to the comprehensive and deeply-integrated Zero Trust tools that have typically only been available to large enterprises and are used by over 10,000 customers today. “Cloudflare is the…

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WRAP announces appointment of new CEO

Stuart Mitchell

Climate action NGO WRAP has announced the appointment of Harriet Lamb as its new CEO. Ms Lamb is an experienced CEO including having built the global movement Fairtrade which fights for better conditions and fair prices for smallholder farmers and workers across the developing world. She said: “I am thrilled to be joining the ace-team at WRAP given their impressive track record of finding solutions, bringing partners together and dialling up the impact. “I look forward to scaling WRAP’s respected programmes tackling the issues of waste, carbon and water while…

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Getty Images and GLAAD Grant Expands Visual Storytelling of the LGBTQ+ Community

Stuart Mitchell

Getty Images, a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, along with GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, have today announced the recipients of US$25,000 in creative grants focused on the Chosen Family. Getty Images’ VisualGPS global research shows that less than 1% of visuals in media and advertising show members of the LGBTQ+ community, with those that are included mainly focusing on Pride celebrations. This grant aimed to elevate photographers and videographers working to capture a broad range of people and groups that…

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