Month: June 2023

Just Eat donates 1.2m meals through winter meal appeal

Stuart Mitchell

Since launching their annual Meal Appeal in 2020, Just Eat has raised enough funds to provide over 1.2m meals to those in need.  Now in its third year, the initiative encourages customers to raise money for Just Eat’s charity partners, FoodCycle and Social Bite to support low-income families and people facing food hunger, loneliness and homelessness. The most recent campaign saw record customer donations, with over 600,000 individual customer donations made after ordering a meal on the food delivery app between November 2022 and February 2023, doubling the customer participation…

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GLAAD And Everylibrary Announce The Launch Of “Book Bans: A Guide To Community Response And Action” For Communities To Defeat Book Bans And Speak Up For LGBTQ+ People, People Of Color, And All Youth

Stuart Mitchell

GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, along with EveryLibrary, a national organization supporting campaigns against book bans, announce a new resource to help communities unite and engage media with facts and personal storytelling to defeat book bans and challenges predominantly facing LGBTQ-inclusive titles and books about race and racism. Book Bans: A Guide for Community Response and Action informs and prepares community members to organize, create authentic messages, and work with media to ensure diverse local voices are heard against book bans and in…

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FareShare and Tesco win big at Third Sector Charity Business Awards

Stuart Mitchell

FareShare and Tesco were celebrated at this year’s Third Sector Charity Business Awards with the top prize in the Long Term Partnership category.  The two organisations have worked together since 2012 to help alleviate poverty in the UK by ensuring surplus food within the Tesco supply chain is used to feed people and doesn’t end up as waste.   Over the last ten years, Tesco has provided food to FareShare via its distribution centres and back of store surplus, as well as funding, support from its suppliers, enabled in store and…

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New startups join the Amazon Sustainability Accelerator

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon research shows investors reward startups with a firm commitment to sustainability – with more than half of UK investors declining a startup investment opportunity in the last 12 months due to concerns about a company’s sustainability credentials. The news comes as eight startups from the UK are unveiled as participants in the second Amazon Sustainability Accelerator. UK venture capital and private equity investors say startups with strong sustainability credentials can command a 15% valuation premium, demonstrating the opportunity for entrepreneurs who are building more sustainable products and businesses. Startups…

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Lloyds Banking Group and Crisis announce new partnership

Stuart Mitchell

Lloyds Banking Group and homelessness charity Crisis have joined forces in a new two-year partnership to help tackle the shortage of good quality, affordable homes in Great Britain, which is leaving hundreds of thousands of people trapped in homelessness. Together, Lloyds Banking Group and Crisis are calling for one million new genuinely affordable homes to be built and made available to those on the lowest incomes, with a focus on supporting people at risk of, and experiencing homelessness. It is part of a Lloyds Banking Group UK-wide response to homelessness…

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