Day: 26 August 2023

Channel 4 Announces The Sean Lock Comedy Award

Stuart Mitchell

Channel 4 has announced The Sean Lock Comedy Award, which will showcase talented new writers and performers who embody the alternative comedic spirit of Sean and Channel 4.  The recipient of the award will be given a unique opportunity to kickstart their career in TV comedy and will receive £5,000 to support their live work as well as a script commission from Channel 4’s comedy team, writer shadowing on Channel 4’s comedy entertainment shows and a £1,000 commission to write a script for Channel 4’s digital strand. They will also receive support…

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Amazon Literary Partnership Announces 2023 Grant Recipients

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon Literary Partnership announced nearly $1 million in grant and sponsorship funding to 93 literary nonprofits across the United States. A longtime champion of the written word, Amazon Literary Partnership’s funding includes support for groups that are working to empower diverse, marginalized, and underrepresented voices, helping writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive in 2023 and beyond. Included in this year’s cohort are 14 first-time grant recipients, including Bidoun, Sinister Wisdom, Beloit Poetry Journal, Contratiempo, InsideOut Literary Arts, and We Need Diverse Books. Previous recipients that are receiving…

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£6 billion raised for good causes on JustGiving

Stuart Mitchell

Leading fundraising platform, JustGiving has surpassed £6 billion in donations through the platform.   JustGiving, which removed platform fees in March 2019, has managed almost 200 million donations from more than 180 countries since 2000.   Some recent JustGiving campaigns:  £55 million was donated in response to the war on Ukraine  £39 million was raised on the platform by people completing the London Marathon  Sir Captain Tom Moore continues to hold the largest individual led online crowdfunding campaign in history, after his challenge went viral and led to more than £39 million donated…

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One in four professionally written Wills now include a charitable gift

Stuart Mitchell

Remember A Charity latest survey of the Will-writing sector shows that solicitors and professional Will-writers are playing an increasingly important role in legacy giving.  The annual survey, carried out by independent research firm Savanta*, reveals that almost three-quarters (73%) always or sometimes raise the option of leaving charitable bequests in Wills to their clients. Now almost a quarter (24%) of Wills handled by UK legal advisers include a donation to charity; showing steady growth and long-term change over the past decade, up from 16% in 2014. Gifts in Wills are…

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Verto joins Octopus’ ‘Zero Bills’ revolution

Stuart Mitchell

Octopus Energy, the UK’s second largest energy supplier, has opened up its ground-breaking ‘Zero Bills’ proposition to all housing developers, enabling more new homeowners to make energy bills a thing of the past. It comes as Octopus joins forces with multi award-winning sustainable housebuilder Verto to launch the UK’s first fully ‘Zero Bills’ developments. Together, the companies will deliver a total of 70 homes across two sites in Cornwall and Exeter. These will include multiple open market and affordable homes and the first ‘Zero Bills’ retrofit properties – proving that…

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