Day: 9 August 2024

FareShare awarded $75k grant from Cisco Foundation for FARE Allocation Project

Stuart Mitchell

FareShare has been awarded with a $75k grant from Cisco Foundation Regional Grants for its FARE Allocation Project. The FARE Allocation Project is designed to make our food distribution more equitable and more aligned with the geographical distribution of poverty and other indicators of deprivation across the UK. It will take official data on various indices of deprivation and ensure we are directing food and other resources to the areas which are currently underserved. FareShare was nominated for the grant by a Cisco Foundation employee who is a volunteer at…

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Alzheimer’s Research UK voted in as Roadchef’s new charity partner

Stuart Mitchell

Alzheimer’s Research UK are thrilled to announce our new charity partner, leading motorway service area operator, Roadchef. Roadchef has been a part of the nation’s journeys for over five decades, welcoming more than 52 million road users across 30 services a year. To help protect the big and small memories Roadchef see made every day, they’ve chosen to support our work. “Thank you to the Roadchef team for voting to stand with us for a cure for dementia. Together, we will end the heartbreak it causes.” – Hilary Evans, Chief…

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CARBIOS and Zhink Group enter official discussions for long-term partnership to build PET biorecycling industrial capacities in China

Stuart Mitchell

CARBIOS, (Euronext Growth Paris : ALCRB), a pioneer in the development and industrialization of biological technologies to reinvent the life cycle of plastic and textiles, and Zhink Group, one of China’s Top 500 Private Enterprises, specializing in two global industries, PET and textiles, announce today the signing of a joint Letter of Intent to build a biorecycling plant in China using CARBIOS’ revolutionary enzymatic depolymerization technology to serve the global market. This agreement officializes collaboration towards a long-term partnership in view of a first licensing contract to build a plant with a minimum…

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First-Ever Global Renewables Summit Announced to Drive Action to Triple Renewable Power by 2030 and Advance Global Energy Transition during 79th UN General Assembly

Stuart Mitchell

The Global Renewables Alliance (GRA) and Bloomberg Philanthropies, in partnership with the governments of Barbados and Kenya, the European Commission, the COP28 and COP29 Presidencies, the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), and the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University – SIPA announced the Global Renewables Summit, the first-ever high-level public-private summit to discuss the progress, opportunities, and challenges of tripling renewable energy globally by 2030. The Summit will be held in New York from 23-25 September on…

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Arlo Parks appointed a UNICEF UK Ambassador

Stuart Mitchell

Arlo Parks has been appointed as the youngest Ambassador to the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK), following three years of support to the charity. The award-winning musician and poet visited Sierra Leone with UNICEF UK this month and spent five days with young people who are leading change in their communities. Her itinerary was led by UNICEF Sierra Leone Youth Advocates, all of whom have set up grassroots responses to social challenges in the West African country, including teenage pregnancy and substance abuse. Arlo Parks was one of the youngest ever…

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