Day: 3 March 2024

Co-op adds all its stores to UK-wide ‘Safe Spaces’ scheme

Stuart Mitchell

Committed to offering ‘safe spaces’ in communities, Co-op has added its stores to the National Business Crime Centre (NBCC) scheme which aims to provide provision in the retail sector for anyone feeling unsafe or vulnerable when out and about on the UK’s streets. Also known as Operation Portum, the NBCC Safe Spaces scheme is dedicated to ensuring communities are places where people feel safe and confident, and is focussed on increasing the number of spaces within the retail sector where people are always welcome to can go safely to seek…

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Public backs charity access to AI, research finds

Stuart Mitchell

“AI must not be the privilege of the few” People around the world recognise the benefits that Artificial Intelligence can bring to further charitable causes, according to new research from the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). Indeed, most people (70%) believe that efforts should be made to help charities of different sizes and resources to access AI. Ahead of Microsoft’s first Global Non-Profit Leaders Summit in Seattle, which a thousand non-profit leaders are expected to attend, CAF is encouraging technology companies to consider how charities of all sizes can access the…

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CAP: Enforcement Notice issued to non-UK based cosmetic surgery providers to tackle irresponsible ads

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Enforcement Notice issued to non-UK based cosmetic surgery providers to tackle irresponsible ads. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. The Committee for Advertising Practice (CAP) has today issued an Enforcement Notice to cosmetic surgery providers based abroad, setting out the strict advertising rules in place that are designed to protect people, in particular young and…

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UK’s Largest Household Plastic Waste Survey Returns

Stuart Mitchell

From Devon to Dundee, across all 650 parliamentary constituencies, more than 30,000 participants are ready to count their plastic waste as registration opens for The Big Plastic Count, including 3,800 school classes and 2,300 teachers. The return of the UK’s largest survey into household plastic waste is set to take place on 11-17 March 2024. The national plastic-counting campaign returns for its second time and sees Greenpeace UK and the non-profit organisation Everyday Plastic invite individuals, households, schools, community groups and businesses to take part in the largest plastic investigation of its kind. University of Portsmouth, Tearfund, The…

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75% of the electricity used to make Britvic in Britain now comes from the sun

Stuart Mitchell

75% of the electricity now used to make Britvic soft drinks in Great Britain – from Fruit Shoot to Tango, Robinsons to J2O – is coming from a 160-acre solar farm in Northamptonshire. Providing clean energy to factories in Rugby, London and Leeds, the ten-year solar power agreement covers three quarters of Britvic’s electricity needs in this country – with the aim of reaching 100% solar powered operations in the near future. The solar site, commissioned in January 2024 and operational from today, will generate 3.1 Gigawatts of power, enough…

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