Day: 19 May 2023

Saving Our Wild Isles: Sir David Attenborough warns ‘this starts and ends with us’ in new UK nature documentary

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s three leading conservation charities – the RSPB, the National Trust and WWF launched a brand new documentary narrated by Sir David Attenborough and produced by Silverback Films last month on Sunday 9 April. Saving Our Wild Isles highlights the people working hard to halt the alarming decline in nature as well as focusing on the wildlife and habitats at risk in the UK – one of the most nature depleted counties in the world. “In this film, we’ll meet inspiring people, young and old, who are working to…

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Cost of Giving Monitor: Wave 3

Stuart Mitchell

Britons believe charities need to do more; only 33% agree that charities are doing an effective job of supporting people in the cost of living crisis. GOOD partnered with YouGov for the third and final wave of the “Cost of Giving Monitor.” The latest report provides an update on key data and fresh insight for charity fundraisers, as well as reflects on the changes to giving over the past 9 months. Headlines: Poverty in Britain is losing urgency in the UK’s psyche, with a -11% decline in people reporting poverty…

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The Youth Endowment Fund opens new £10 million grant round for positive activities

Stuart Mitchell

On 5th April 2023, the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) has opened a new £10 million grant round. Focused on the theme of ‘positive activities’, the round will test the impact of sports, arts and adventure and wilderness activities on preventing violence. The YEF’s mission is to find what works to prevent children becoming involved in violence and build a movement to put this knowledge into practice. Through its new grant round, the charity will fund projects which use positive activities as a means to protect children from violence and as…

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Business mentors needed to help drive Net Zero

Stuart Mitchell

An organisation leading the drive toward net zero is looking for more business and industry mentors to help the next generation develop carbon cutting solutions. Fuel Change is an organisation working with businesses and schools to enable apprentices and new graduates to help develop solutions to the climate crisis. Its Challenge Programme forms project teams of young people from businesses and organisations and sets them real world carbon reduction challenges. The challenge tasks are set by industry and worked on over a 16 week period after which findings are presented…

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UK veterinary charity to commence largest ever canine rabies vaccination drive in Cambodia

Stuart Mitchell

On 22nd May Mission Rabies, a project of the international charity WVS which has recently merged with Dogs Trust, will commence a mass vaccination drive in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh. Mission Rabies aims to vaccinate 100,000 dogs against rabies in just ten days, making this Cambodia’s largest canine rabies vaccination project to date. Rabies kills approximately 59,000 people globally every year and Cambodia has one of the highest rabies death rates per capita of any country in the world. Mission Rabies will work closely with the local government and charity…

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