Month: March 2024

New Energy-Saving Recipe Book Could Save Millions in UK Fuel Costs

Stuart Mitchell

With research showing that households spending just an hour cooking a day costs £208.93 per annum in fuel costs, a new free energy-saving recipe book has been launched to help households cut costs, saving the nation tens of millions every year.  With energy prices still high and the cost of living a concern to most UK households, cooking appliance brand Belling has launched the ‘Energy-Saving Recipe Book’ where each meal is a lower-energy version of a much-loved dish.  A traditional roast dinner can take well over an hour to prepare,…

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New advertising business group states it is set to disrupt the agency landscape

Stuart Mitchell

A new agency group is set to disrupt the agency landscape. Over the next 12 to 18 months, ONQOR Group intends to acquire agencies across the UK, EU and US creating a 1,500 headcount full service agency group. The new group, a venture in partnership with an investment fund, will be acquiring agencies across marketing, creative, production and PR space, based out of their incoming head office in Farringdon, London. ONQOR Group CEO Joe Kaul, says: “At present, the agency landscape is incredibly fragmented and ripe for a new group to service…

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More progress still needed on sustainability assurance

Stuart Mitchell

New analysis has revealed two-in-three large companies obtain assurance on at least some of their sustainability disclosures. While a welcome step towards more robust and reliable data, an uneven global picture underlines why GRI is calling for mandatory assurance of sustainability reporting to become normal practice. The State of Play: Sustainability Disclosure and Assurance 2019-2022, published by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) on 22 February, involved over 1,400 companies from 22 countries. The IFAC findings include: Assurance on some sustainability disclosures is now provided by 69% of companies (a…

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Number of people helped by Big Issue increases by 8% in past year

Stuart Mitchell

New figures out recently show how Big Issue Group (BIG) has tackled the cost-of-living crisis head on by supporting thousands of people affected by poverty to earn and find employment in the last year. Almost 4,000 people were given the opportunity to change their lives through enterprise in the previous 12 months across the Group’s services, including by selling the magazine or being helped into work through Big Issue Recruit (BIR). The figures, released as the organisation celebrates Big Issue’s National Vendor Week, show that the number of people effected…

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‘Scamscriptions’ and recurring payment traps on the rise, Which? warns

Stuart Mitchell

Which? is warning consumers to be on the lookout for ‘scamscriptions’ and recurring payment traps as they have become one of the most common types of reports to Which?’s scam sharer tool.  In recent months, complaints about unwanted recurring payments have dominated scam reports shared with Which? through the consumer champion’s scam sharer tool.  Scammers seem to have been ramping up their efforts. When Which? surveyed more than 2,000 consumers in November 2023 about when they most recently saw unexpected recurring payments from companies they did not recognise in their bank statements…

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