Month: September 2024

Sizewell C Chooses Hospice as Charity Partner

Stuart Mitchell

Sizewell C has selected St Elizabeth Hospice as its first official charity partner, providing the charity with an important funding stream for the next two years. An independent Suffolk charity, St Elizabeth Hospice helps people living with progressive and life-limiting illnesses throughout East & Mid Suffolk, Great Yarmouth & Waveney, offering care and support to them and their loved ones to maximise the time they have left. Every year, the charity delivers free care to over 4,000 patients and their families, costing around £12m to facilitate. The charity is dependent…

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Courageous Leaders Announces Fifth Annual Leadership Development Conference in Aid of Plan International UK.

Stuart Mitchell

Building on years of successful event design and delivery, Courageous Leaders is proud to announce the speaker lineup for the October 2024 conference and the fifth year of philanthropic fundraising in aid of Plan International UK. Highlighting the critical connection between wellbeing and productivity, as underscored in research published by Professor William J. Fleming of Oxford University in May 2024 featured in the Financial Times, the conference will focus on providing leaders with the knowledge, science, data and actionable techniques to enhance both employee performance and wellbeing. Scheduled for Monday,…

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ASA – If it matters, make sure it’s included

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: If it matters, make sure it’s included. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. It might sound obvious, but ads need to include all the information a consumer needs in order to decide whether or not to respond to it. This response could be deciding to purchase the advertised product, entering a competition or participating in…

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WRAP responds – Extended producer responsibility for packaging illustrative base fees

Stuart Mitchell

Defra recently published information on initial illustrative base fees for the first year of EPR for packaging.  Claire Shrewsbury, Director Insights and Innovation WRAP said, “An EPR scheme for packaging is essential to better manage the enormous range of materials used in packaging, a large proportion of which become waste. It will play a pivotal role in shifting to a circular economy, and a zero-waste world. We welcome the clarity that the publication of these illustrative fees gives to businesses. Now, businesses can better plan their packaging with a greater focus…

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Two in three (66%) UK shoppers prefer to buy products that have a more positive environmental impact, but are unsure how to identify them

Stuart Mitchell

According to a recent Amazon-commissioned study of 2,000 British shoppers, two in three (66%) people would prefer to buy products that have a more positive environmental and social impact, although the same number struggle to identify them, due to confusing product labelling. In fact, UK shoppers find building flat-pack furniture (44%), completing a giant crossword puzzle (35%) and cooking an elaborate dinner party from scratch (31%) easier than figuring out the environmental impacts of products when shopping. As a result, only 7% of Brits say they always understand a product’s…

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