Day: 25 July 2024

Back Up is The October Club’s 2024 Charity Partner

Stuart Mitchell

The October Club is delighted to announce that their chosen charity partner for 2024 is Back Up. For almost 40 years, Back Up has helped people and their families to rebuild their lives after a devastating spinal cord injury. Our award-winning, practical services are designed and delivered by people affected by spinal cord injury challenging the perceptions of what is possible and increase injured individuals’ skills and confidence. Back Up was founded in 1986 by James Bond stuntman, Mike Nemesvary, a world champion freestyle skier who broke his neck during…

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Richard Gadd Helps Survivors Move ‘Beyond The Silence’

Stuart Mitchell

Male sexual abuse charity, We Are Survivors, has launched its brand new quarterly magazine, Beyond The Silence, with the help of the creator of the Netflix international smash hit Baby Reindeer, Richard Gadd. This is the first ever magazine from the organisation and has been created to ensure that space is created for the important discussion on male victims / survivors of sexual abuse, rape and sexual exploitation. Magazine Editor, Grahame Robertson, said: “Whilst the newsletter format served us well, our organisational vision is for a society where NO male survivor…

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Anton, Jean And Sean Launch Big Scottish Breakfast

Stuart Mitchell

Following his stay in the explosive Love Island: All Stars villa earlier this year, Anton Danyluk has faced an even bigger challenge: a pancake-decorating competition with a group of ten-year-olds at a Glasgow primary school. The telly star was joined by presenters Jean Johansson and Sean Batty at Battlefield Primary School in the city’s southside in May to help launch the STV Children’s Appeal’s 2024 Big Scottish Breakfast event, in partnership with Kellogg’s. A fun favourite in the charity’s fundraising calendar, the campaign raises money to provide nutritious breakfasts for…

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Sainsbury’s reduces plastic waste by almost 700 tonnes through fish and chicken packaging revamp

Stuart Mitchell

Sainsbury’s is introducing a number of packaging changes across its own-brand chicken and fish lines, with the new packaging set to save 694 tonnes of plastic a year – the weight of almost 100 elephants1. All own-brand salmon fillet trays are switching from pulp cardboard instead of plastic, a UK retailer first, which will result in 70% less plastic, saving 346 tonnes of plastic a year. Alongside this, Sainsbury’s is rolling out cardboard trays across its Taste the Difference and by Sainsbury’s breaded chicken lines, set to save 300 tonnes…

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Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley teams up with Nestlé and Tetra Pak to inspire collaborative innovation in sustainable packaging

Stuart Mitchell

Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley, together with Valley partners Nestlé and Tetra Pak, brought together 60+ Swiss and European partners at a nationwide event in Bern this week. The joint project is designed to shine a light on some of the most promising approaches in sustainable packaging materials and drive further innovation through new collaborations. Commenting on the event, Christina Senn-Jakobsen, CEO of Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley, says, “This event showcased the incredible potential of collaborative innovation. The challenges around sustainable packaging cannot be solved in silos. Collaboration between startups,…

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