Forty-one agencies honoured for outstanding professional development

The IPA is celebrating the 41 agencies that have achieved CPD Gold Accreditation for their exceptional professional development programmes, and outstanding investment in the professional development and wellbeing of their employees throughout 2023. CPD Gold agencies continue to prove that investment in learning and development is a business imperative, with some outstanding examples of CPD culture, innovation and effectiveness. On average, the CPD Gold agencies earned £5.40 return on every £1 invested in learning and development in 2023, retained 91% of clients, and saved £286,420 on recruitment costs with an…

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McDonald’s UK To Launch Charity Donut

To celebrate, McDonald’s is launching an extra-special Birthday Cake Donut with 20p from each sale donated to Ronald McDonald House Charities UK, which also marks its 35th birthday this year 🎂 🍩 McDonald’s is a founding and forever partner of the Charity, which provides vital support to thousands of families across the UK at each of its 14 locations. The Houses, located next to major hospitals, allow families to be by their child’s bedside in a matter of moments, whilst maintaining a degree of normality during very difficult times. As…

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Opinium Research: The public’s experience and expectations of charitable fundraising

Paul Winyard, Head of Policy at the Fundraising Regulator, shares insights into the recent research led by Opinium on our behalf, looking at the public’s experience and expectations of charitable fundraising. Charity fundraisers have access to a great deal of information about how people give and which causes they support. However, less is known about the public’s real-world experience of fundraising practice. In our role as a regulator, we are committed to using public research to underpin and inform our work and it’s important that we understand the motivations and…

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Bursary scheme opens to help more young people fall in love with STEM through fun activities

EngineeringUK  is launching its STEM bursary scheme to help school students get creative and inspired by STEM through fun hands-on activities which could lead to creating tomorrow’s astronauts, app designers and AI architects. With many schools facing financial challenges, the bursaries will be awarded to schools with high proportions of students from groups underrepresented in the engineering profession. Primary schools which meet the EngineeringUK Priority Schools criteria, can apply for a bursary of £550 to take part in an experience with Neon – a website that helps primary and secondary…

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Earthrise Launch A New Five-Part Video Series With Oxfam Exploring The Intersectionality Of Climate Change And Social Justice

Earthrise announce CLIMATE+, a brand new, five-part video series with Oxfam that delves into the multifaceted relationship between climate change and social justice issues.  Launched on Monday 8th July, the five episodes will be distributed weekly across YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, as well as hosted on Oxfam’s website.  Focusing on the intersectionality of climate justice, each CLIMATE+ episode focuses on a different theme – gender, conflict, class, health, and colonialism. Through these narratives, the films aim to highlight the urgency of addressing climate change through a lens of social justice and…

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