Month: October 2024

CAF launches Venturesome Impact Fund to support organisations through social investment

Stuart Mitchell

Social purpose organisations are set to benefit from a new social investment fund from the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). The Venturesome Impact Fund offers affordable, repayable finance to organisations across the UK. This ‘evergreen’ fund will remain continuously open for applications and is cause universal, to enable impactful social purpose organisations to access finance to grow and improve their resilience. The fund opens with £10m of philanthropic capital from CAF’s private clients, businesses and other foundations, with the goal to grow available funding to at least £20m. Most social investments…

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Lloyds Banking Group raises over £2.5 million for crisis and extends charity partnership

Stuart Mitchell

Lloyds Banking Group and national homelessness charity Crisis have announced that they are extending their partnership, in response to the clear societal need for more affordable homes across the UK. Lloyds Banking Group and Crisis teamed up in 2023 for an initial two-year term, but the extension means the partnership will now run until at least 2026. The Group’s partnership with Simon Community in Northern Ireland will also be extended, reflecting a UK-wide response to homelessness.  With over 272,000 households experiencing homelessness in England, Scotland and Wales, Lloyds Banking Group…

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New WWF global study reveals most impactful actions for each country

Stuart Mitchell

The Great Food Puzzle, a new tool and research published by WWF, helps identify the most appropriate actions on a national basis. The report highlights that food systems – the complex network of activities that involves the production, processing, transportation, and consumption of food – have major global impacts on nature and climate change, but they can only be made sustainable with local solutions. In the first global study of its kind, WWF has analyzed more than 100 countries and classified them into six different Food System Types, based on…

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Asda invites customers to donate pre-loved children’s books to distribute back into local communities

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has announced it is joining part of a nationwide partnership with literacy charity the Children’s Book Project that will enable their customers across the UK to donate pre-loved children’s books in-store, for onward gifting to families who have fewer books of their own.  This country-wide campaign follows successful pilots earlier in the year in Asda stores across Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds and London which saw over 6000 booked donated and redistributed. The Children’s Book Project is on a mission to tackle book poverty in childhood.  They take donations of surplus…

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Unleash the fun! The LEGO Group is encouraging families to build more play into every day and join its global ‘Play is Your Superpower’ campaign

Stuart Mitchell

In a world where play is increasingly undervalued, the LEGO Group is excited to raise the curtain on the second run of its Play is Your Superpower campaign, encouraging kids and families to give play more of a starring role in everyday life. Urging everyone to rediscover the transformative power of play, this fun-fuelled campaign is a direct response to new global findings by the LEGO Group, revealing that families who play together the most are the happiest*, while a resounding 90% of children agree that play is the best…

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