Month: May 2023

Young Adults’ Mental Health Catastrophe – Just 10% Love Themselves

Stuart Mitchell

The UK faces a mental health catastrophe as only 10 per cent of young adults love themselves completely, reveals blistering new research from Direct Line Insurance and mental health charity Mind. Young adults are struggling with their mental health with 95 per cent feeling anxious in the last 12 months and over a fifth (21 per cent) experiencing these feelings all the time. Almost half of young adults (46 per cent) have felt low often or all the time over this time period. Despite support services being readily available, 6%…

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National Philanthropic Trust UK distributed over £12 million in grants during Calendar Year 2022

Stuart Mitchell

The National Philanthropic Trust (NPT) UK, one of the leading providers of donor-advised funds (DAFs) in the UK, granted £12.2 million on behalf of its donors during Calendar Year 2022. This represents a 37% increase in the value of charitable grants from NPT UK donors to 2021, and almost a three-fold increase compared to 2020. The volume of grants made by NPT UK has also risen year on year, peaking at 421 in 2022. When combined with grants donated since 2020, NPT UK has distributed £25.7 million through 864 grants…

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Getir reaches one million meal donations

Stuart Mitchell

Getir, the pioneer of ultrafast grocery delivery, has recently reached a milestone of over one million donated meals from its gstores to local good causes through the Neighbourly platform.  The partnership, which has been running for a year, has now seen over 420,000 tonnes of food donated to over 330 good causes, like St Mungo’s Haringey Recovery Service in London, Wycombe Food Hub and Betel Birmingham. By redistributing this food, Getir has saved 1,520 tonnes of CO2 and made a total financial impact of over £1.8M to local communities. The…

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Tesco launches collaborative ready meal tray-to-tray initiative with Faerch Group

Stuart Mitchell

In an industry first, Tesco has begun recycling used plastic food trays back into packaging – creating a fully circular packaging solution for its range of core chilled ready meals. The change is in collaboration with leading packaging manufacturer Faerch and will see customer-recovered PET trays – collected via European kerbside waste – recycled and converted back into food grade plastic trays. Tesco’s ready meal trays already contain up to 75% recycled content, predominantly from cleaner and easier to recycle bottle flake plastic. Through the new Tray 2 Tray by…

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Lloyds Banking Group sets ambitious goal to double the representation of colleagues with disabilities in senior management roles

Stuart Mitchell

Lloyds Banking Group has announced it will set a public goal to increase the representation of senior colleagues with disabilities in the workplace, the first public commitment of its kind to be launched by a UK bank. Currently 6% of the Group’s colleagues at senior management level have reported that they have a disability. The new goal aims to double representation to 12% by 2025.** To achieve this goal, the Group will act to improve the working environment and experience for colleagues with disabilities. This will include a commitment to…

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