Day: 23 February 2023

Hospice Health Report 2023: Helping hospices work towards success and sustainability

Stuart Mitchell

The newly-published Hospice Health Report sets out how hospice fundraising teams have weathered the storm of the pandemic, but face significant challenges in the coming years. About the report Aimed at helping support strategic planning in hospices, the report is a comprehensive study of the sector’s fundraising since 2017, and intends to guide the sector toward success and sustainability. Its findings focus on the change in behaviour of both existing and new donors in the context of the current cost-of-living crisis. It suggests ways that hospices can address these by…

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New research shows community connections strengthen despite cost-of-living pressures

Stuart Mitchell

People across the UK predict growing pressure on local community-run support services in 2023, with the rising cost-of-living expected to drive up demand for food banks, debt advice and mental health charities. At the same time, despite personal and household pressures, community connections have strengthened, and more people intend to volunteer in 2023, with food banks set to benefit most from their community-minded efforts: Local priorities: over half of UK adults (55%) say that supporting people with the rising cost-of-living is most important for the wellbeing of their local community…

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UN launches $1 billion appeal to scale-up aid operations in Türkiye

Stuart Mitchell

The United Nations has launched a $1 billion appeal for Türkiye to assist more than five million people affected by the cataclysmic earthquakes recently, the largest to hit the country in a century. The funding, which covers a three-month-period, will allow aid organizations to swiftly ramp up their operations to support Government-led response efforts in areas that include food security, protection, education, water and shelter.    Tweet URL UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged the international community to step up and fully fund the response effort.  “Türkiye is home to the…

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The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable Releases the Water Circularity Good Practices Guide

Stuart Mitchell

The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) recognizes that water circularity must be a part of a business’s water strategy, at the basin scale, for those actively managing water risk. As such, BIER has developed the Water Circularity Good Practices Guide. This Guidance addresses the emerging need for an easy-to-follow process that also incorporates important considerations to evaluate when pivoting focus from on-site techniques to off-site circularity endeavors. The Water Circularity Good Practices Guide seeks to outline the how-to of successful pre-project planning, concrete steps for successful implementation, as well as…

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Henkel Signs Agreement With Shell on Renewable-Based Ingredients for Persil®, Purex® and all® Brands

Stuart Mitchell

Henkel and Shell Chemical LP have agreed to a five-year collaboration to replace up to 200,000 tonnes of fossil feedstocks used in the manufacture of surfactants with feedstocks that are based on renewable raw materials. The renewable-based surfactants will be used in Henkel’s laundry product brands, including many varieties of Persil®, Purex® and all® brands. Surfactants are an ingredient in cleaning products that help lather and lift dirt. “This landmark cooperation significantly advances Henkel’s share of renewable-based ingredients in leading consumer brands in North America,” said Ulrike Sapiro, Chief Sustainability…

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