Day: 6 March 2024

New Heritage 2033 National Lottery programme is open for grants from £10,000 to £10million

Stuart Mitchell

The National Lottery Heritage Fund have announced that they have changed to their grants application process, this is the details they give on their website: We’ve changed our application guidance and forms to reflect our new strategy, simplified our materials and made our requirements more proportionate to the amount of money you’re applying for. We’re ready to support innovative and ambitious projects that share our vision for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future. If there’s something from the past that you…

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Two centuries of lifesaving history reflected in new range of RNLI products

Stuart Mitchell

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) marks its 200th anniversary in March 2024. As part of this momentous occasion, the charity – the oldest national lifesaving organisation in the world – is releasing a new range of products designed to celebrate key moments in its rich 200 year history. Since the earliest days of the RNLI, volunteers have come together to sell items to raise vital funds – a tradition that continues today in over 170 volunteer-run shops around the UK and Ireland, as well as at hundreds of events…

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Asda changes beef mince packaging to save over 60 tonnes of plastic each year

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has announced it is removing traditional plastic tray packaging across its Just Essentials beef mince range and is replacing it with a lighter and recyclable flexible plastic film alternative. The new packaging, which is now available in stores and online, contains 60% less plastic than previous version and is fully recyclable through Asda’s in-store collection points, which will help to remove 67.6 tonnes of plastic from Asda’s supply chain annually. The previous version of the packaging was used from May 2022 through to January 2024. The vacuum-pack method of…

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OAAA And OOH UNITED Launch Inaugural Future Leaders Program To Support Next-Gen OOH Leaders

Stuart Mitchell

The Out of Home Advertising Association (OAAA), the premier trade group representing the entire out of home (OOH) advertising industry, and OOH UNITED, the industry-wide diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative, announced the new Future Leaders program aimed at future-proofing the OOH industry. Ten successful applicants will have the opportunity to embark on a sponsored trip to the 2024 OOH Media Conference from April 29 – May 1 in Carlsbad, California, and assume pivotal roles within OOH UNITED to support the development of the next generation of leaders. “As we…

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Ocean and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust light six million candles across the nation

Stuart Mitchell

Ocean and Landsec joined outdoor advertising sites across the UK marking Holocaust Memorial Day on Saturday (27 January) at 8pm in an initiative devised by creative agency St Luke’s for the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Four hundred out of home (OOH) sites simultaneously showed thousands of candles being lit – with a nationwide total of six million candles representing the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. Led by the Piccadilly Lights in London, the lit candles were displayed during a 10-minute vigil which everyone was invited to join either…

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