Day: 30 December 2023

The Co-operative Bank celebrates 20 years of its Customer Donation Fund by hitting £1.1 million milestone

Stuart Mitchell

Award-winning charity banking provider, The Co-operative Bank, is celebrating 20 years of its Customer Donation Fund by donating £100,000 in 2023 to a wide-range of local causes across the UK, from refugee support groups to climate co-operatives. This brings the total donations to £1.1 million since the fund was established 20 years ago. The Customer Donation Fund is a key part of The Co-operative Bank’s commitment to supporting local communities and charitable causes, providing grants to Community Directplus account customers for projects across the UK. Each account holder is able…

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Tesco donates over 33,000 kids’ toothbrushes to charity

Stuart Mitchell

Over 33,000 kids’ toothbrushes and 6,000 tubes of kids’ toothpaste will be donated to help combat hygiene poverty in the UK. Research by charity In Kind Direct found that 1 in 6 (17%) UK adults are living in hygiene poverty. Their research also found that 6% of adults say they, or someone in their household have gone without a toothbrush in the last six months because they could not afford it.  In response, Tesco has been working with four of its suppliers – Unilever, Kimberley Clark, Essity and Haleon –…

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Secret Deodorant Launches Financial Literacy Resources to Help Create a Stress-Free Financial Future for Young Women

Stuart Mitchell

With the support of strategic financial wellness partners, Secret Deodorant proudly announces the launch ofSecret U,an educational platform granting millions of young women access to financial literacy tools. Secret teamed up with Boss Women Media, Open Path Psychotherapy Collective, and well-known female financial experts to shed light on the critical need for accessible financial resources and the burden of financial stress. The newly launched resources build on the brand’s multi-year financial empowerment initiative to help women take control of their financial well-being by removing barriers to achieve financial equity. Through…

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Landmark Oceans Futures Platform Projects the Arctic, Gulf of Guinea, and Central Pacific to be among future climate-driven fisheries conflict hotspots

Stuart Mitchell

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced the launch of its Oceans Futures platform, a first-of-its-kind initiative that projects seascapes surrounding the Arctic Ocean and within the Gulf of Guinea, Eastern Mediterranean, Eastern Tropical Pacific, and Central Pacific will experience increased fisheries conflict as a result of climate change. The analysis, based on global climate and fisheries models, highlights 20 regions of the world that will likely see conflict, food insecurity, or geo-political tensions over fisheries rise by 2030. These regions include the waters surrounding the Arctic Ocean, Cameroon, Syria, Ecuador, Indonesia,…

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Newly released resources for private equity investors will help evaluate portfolio progress toward net zero

Stuart Mitchell

Ceres welcomes two important new resources for private equity investors to help them evaluate and communicate the progress their portfolio companies are making towards net zero. Last week the Initiative Climate International (iCI) and the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Private Equity Task Force, supported by Bain & Company, launched the Private Markets Decarbonization Roadmap (PMDR). This tool is for measuring and communicating private company alignment with net zero and was developed in consultation with Ceres, CDP, GFANZ, IIGCC, ILPA, and PRI.  It adds to existing private equity guidance for measuring the…

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