Day: 25 February 2024

Getting active made easier with £93 million funding for over 1,100 grassroots sports projects

Stuart Mitchell

Research shows exercising more was the UK’s most common New Year’s resolution for 2024, and the Government is helping hundreds of thousands more people across the UK keep their resolution and get active by delivering high-quality grassroots sport facilities. From Belfast to Bracknell, over 1,100 projects are receiving funding that will go towards facilities such as changing rooms, pavilions, state of the art 3G artificial grass pitches, goalposts and floodlights, improving access to sport and physical activity for local communities. Sports Minister Stuart Andrew announced the funding during a visit…

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Daimler Truck and Masdar explore liquid green hydrogen supply options to decarbonize road freight transport in Europe

Stuart Mitchell

Masdar, the UAE’s clean energy powerhouse, and Daimler Truck Holding AG (“Daimler Truck”), one of the world’s leading commercial vehicle manufacturers, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore the feasibility of liquid green hydrogen exports from Abu Dhabi (UAE) to Europe by 2030. The MoU was signed in Abu Dhabi by Fawaz Al Muharrami, Executive Director of Clean Energy and Deputy COO at Masdar and Martin Daum, Chairman of the Board of Management and CEO of Daimler Truck.  The collaboration between the two pioneering companies with complementary roles…

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HRC Foundation Releases First-Ever Report Detailing Steps for Businesses to Become LGBTQ+ Allies in Action

Stuart Mitchell

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, released its first-ever Corporate Citizenship Report, The LGBTQ+ Corporate Citizen: A Framework for Emerging Best Practices in Allyship. The new report offers guidance to companies that want to invest in closing the ally gap. The ally gap acknowledges that LGBTQ+ allyship is a journey and describes the space between the intent to be an LGBTQ+ ally and the actions needed to get there. HRC Foundation’s Corporate Citizenship Report…

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New IPA report reveals evidence that marketing is an investment

Stuart Mitchell

Eighty percent of today’s investment analysts examine marketing expenditure in the companies they cover. More analysts also cite the strength of a company’s brands and marketing as an important factor for their appraisal of stock exchange listed businesses than the quality of their leadership or record of technological innovation. Yet when businesses are under-performing, marketing budgets are some of the first to be cut. The resulting reductions in marketing expenditure are often viewed in financial markets as a positive short-term cost saving with less attention paid to their impact on…

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Barclays focuses capital and resources on supporting energy companies to decarbonise

Stuart Mitchell

Barclays recently published a revised Climate Change Statement to progress its climate strategy and continues its focus on clients actively engaged in the energy transition. Following Barclays’ commitment to finance $1trillion of Sustainable and Transition Finance by 2030, Barclays also releases a Transition Finance Framework to support us to meet that target and facilitate the transition finance needed to decarbonise high-emitting sectors. The updated Climate Change Statement outlines: No project finance, or other direct finance to energy clients, for upstream oil and gas expansion projects or related infrastructure. Restrictions for…

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