Month: January 2024

WWF and IKEA have initiated two projects to address forest degradation in Colombia and Brazil

Stuart Mitchell

WWF and Inter IKEA have extended their 20-year collaboration to include new projects in Colombia and Brazil. These projects aim to safeguard biodiversity and landscapes while also empowering local communities and curbing the alarming loss of forests.  In Brazil, a new project focuses on addressing environmental loss in the Atlantic Forest biome, the Cerrado biome, and the Tapajós river basin in the Amazon. The initiative aims to halt the conversion of natural forests to plantations through landscape conservation and recovery activities. Together with local organisations, a forest hub is being…

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CIPR works with Carbon Neutral Britain to achieve Carbon Neutral Status

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has officially achieved Carbon Neutral status.   Working with Carbon Neutral Britain (CNB) – the UK’s leading Carbon Offsetting initiative – the Institute has gone through a four-step accreditation process to measure and offset some 453.00 Tonnes of Carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) and achieve Carbon Neutrality.  Throughout the year, CNB will purchase carbon credits based on the number of tonnes of CO2e purchased from the Institute and match the purchase into an offsetting portfolio that will see the CIPR fund and support sustainable…

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Charity People Embrace a Bright Future with Employee Ownership

Stuart Mitchell

Charity People is thrilled to announce its transition into becoming an employee-owned business. This marks an exciting new chapter for the organisation, where employees become owners, enabling us to enjoy a share of our future success. Since its foundation over 30 years ago, the employees of Charity People have been at the heart of everything we do. Charity People started from a small South London base, with grants from The Prince’s Youth Business Trust and the London Enterprise Agency. Our aims were then, and still are, to promote the sector as the best to work, to…

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The Fundraising Regulator announces proposals to increase the Fundraising Levy for the first time since 2016

Stuart Mitchell

The Fundraising Regulator has recently announced it is opening a review to the charity sector on its proposal to increase the Fundraising Levy (the levy) for the first time since it was founded in 2016. The levy constitutes the majority of the Fundraising Regulator’s funding and sees charities that spend over £100,000 on their annual fundraising activity pay a voluntary contribution to fund the regulator’s services. The levy has always and will continue to represent a fraction of a percentage of a registered charity’s total fundraising expenditure. The proposal to…

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More than three quarters of UK workers want their employers to play an active role during UK disasters

Stuart Mitchell

76% of employees want the company they work for to play an active role during UK disasters such as major floods, terror attacks or another pandemic, according to new research released today by disaster response charity, the National Emergencies Trust and Business in the Community (BITC). In the aftermath of national crises, UK workers want their employer to provide wellbeing support to any colleagues who may be affected (32%). They also want them to step up for other people affected by donating items (32%), raising funds or making a donation…

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