Month: September 2024

London Air Ambulance have reached the £15 million target for our Up Against Time appeal

Stuart Mitchell

London’s Air Ambulance Charity is thrilled to announce that the £15 million target needed to replace its two helicopters has been met ahead of schedule. Thanks to incredible support from the people, businesses and communities of London, our charity has raised an amazing £16 million through its Up Against Time appeal. The money raised will mean that we can replace our two helicopters and keep them flying for years to come, continuing to save lives across London every day.    Every second a patient is waiting for treatment, can mean…

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Pathway Fund Launches New Cost of Living Support Programme

Stuart Mitchell

Black and Ethnic Minoritised-led organisations are less likely to apply for social investment – and are less likely to obtain it, too. Only 45% of the 1,000 Black and Ethnic Minoritised-led organisations Pathway has spoken to, said that they would trust and approach social investors. 76% said they believe they had been refused finance because of their race or ethnicity. The cost-of-living crisis has made this funding disparity all the more damaging, impacting the ability of Black and Ethnic Minoritised-led organisations to deliver impact in the communities most impacted by…

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Cancer patients urged to apply for disability benefits

Stuart Mitchell

A cancer charity has joined forces with the Scottish Government to urge people with cancer to check if they could be eligible for disability benefits.   Cancer Card Scotland founder Jen Hardy MBE and Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Shirley-Anne Somerville, want people with cancer to ensure they’re getting the money they could be entitled to. Both Adult Disability Payment and Child Disability Payment are available in Scotland to help cover the extra costs of being disabled, having a long-term health condition or being terminally ill. Importantly, Social Security Scotland…

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Crisp packets, bread bags and yoghurt tops to get a new life as furniture for NHS gardens

Stuart Mitchell

Thousands of pieces of soft plastics, such as bread bags and crisp packets, dropped off by customers at Tesco stores are to get a new lease of life as outdoor furniture and garden equipment in a series of community gardens being designed for NHS Property Services.  Veolia has introduced an innovative recycling process that can turn soft plastic, which previously was difficult to recycle, into items such as benches, decking, tables and raised beds. The recycled gardening products will be donated to the NHSPS Social Prescribing Programme to introduce nature…

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US and UK collaborating to research misinformation campaigns

Stuart Mitchell

The joint US-UK Bilateral Academic Research Initiative (BARI) social science programme has announced its first funded research project. The awarded project is ‘Influence, Manipulation and Information Threats as Adversarial Techniques: Events, Evolution and Effects (IMITATE3)’. It is led by Professor Jacob Shapiro at Princeton University for the US and Professor Martin Innes at Cardiff University for the UK. Over the three-year course of the project, the US research team will receive up to $3 million of US Department of Defense (DoD) funding from the Minerva Research Initiative. The UK research…

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