Day: 21 October 2024

Leading cancer charity supports an extra quarter of a million people in a single year as coping with a cancer diagnosis gets tougher across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s largest cancer care charity, Macmillan Cancer Support, has published its 2023 Annual Report and Accounts which highlights it has helped more than 2.3 million people affected by cancer in 2023, a quarter of a million more than in 2022. Its increasing support comes against the backdrop of an ongoing cost of living crisis, increasing pressures on the NHS, worsening waiting times for cancer diagnosis and treatment and stark health inequities that adversely impact many people with cancer’s outcomes and experiences. The latest report and figures highlight the enormous…

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Asda Rewards makes millions available to primary schools with industry first loyalty programme giveaway

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has recently announced that it is making millions of pounds available to UK primary schools by encouraging families to use its loyalty programme – Asda Rewards. In a game changing new campaign, fronted by Joe Wicks, the supermarket is offering to donate 0.5% of the value of any shop done at Asda until 30th November 2024 to customers’ primary school of choice – when they shop using Asda Rewards. The supermarket is kicking off each school fund with £50 and offering to top up with an extra £1 for…

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New leadership strategy programme launched to support future ESG and sustainability finance breakthroughs

Stuart Mitchell

Chartered accountancy body ICAEW and Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education have announced the launch of a sustainability programme for finance professionals. The four-day ESG and Sustainability Strategy for Finance Leaders and Practitioners Programme is a face-to-face initiative that will equip participants with the knowledge and tools to integrate sustainability into their organisations’ strategies and operations. Covering climate and sustainability; the information ecosystem; sustainable finance and leadership, it will run from 30 September to 3 October.   The programme has been designed for board members, chief financial officers and partners, to…

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ACEVO announces ACEVOFest 2025 programme

Stuart Mitchell

ACEVO, the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations, has today released the programme for ACEVOFest 2025, its two-day festival dedicated to advancing leadership within the civil society sector. The event will take place on Tuesday 4 and Wednesday 5 March 2025 offering a blend of in-person and virtual experiences designed to inspire and connect leaders across the sector. On day one attendees can choose to participate either in-person at the Hilton Wembley, Lakeside Way, Wembley Park, London, HA9 0BU, or online. Day two will be held exclusively online. Speaker…

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Urgent, Faster Scale-Up of Clean Technologies Presents Multi-Trillion-Dollar Opportunities for Decarbonization of India

Stuart Mitchell

India’s window to curb its carbon emissions in line with the major goal of the Paris Agreement – holding global warming to well below two degrees Celsius and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change – is still possible, however, it looks increasingly hard to achieve. BloombergNEF’s (BNEF’s) New Energy Outlook: India shows what it would take to get there. India must rapidly decarbonize its power sector – the largest emitter in the country – to stay on track, more than tripling its solar and wind capacity by 2030 to…

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