Day: 15 November 2024

The Creative Shootout 2025 is open for entry

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s leading done in a day creative-for-good awards, The Creative Shootout, is back for its eighth year and is now open for entry. This year’s charity theme is ‘Hidden Disabilities’ and from all the charity entries received over the Summer, Epilepsy Action has been chosen as the Shootout’s Charity of the Year 2025. Any discipline marketing agency (integrated, advertising, PR, digital, social, brand, experiential or other), in house or freelance team, can now enter the Shootout by submitting a 60 second entry at www.creativeshootout.com. The entry must be relevant…

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Christmas fundraising tips for charities: Key Insights from goDonate’s Online Donations December Insights Report 2024

Stuart Mitchell

This year’s Online Donations December Insights Report offers Christmas fundraising tips for charities 2024. The report provides key analysis of digital fundraising trends during the Christmas period in 2023, from data gathered through the goDonate platform. With goDonate managing over £35 million in charitable income in 2023, the report offers valuable insights into donor behaviour in the run-up to Christmas, to help charities optimise their online fundraising strategies for this critical period. Single vs Regular Donations in December Our report highlights notable differences between single and regular donations during the…

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Giving Tuesday 2024

Stuart Mitchell

Giving Tuesday is on Tuesday 3 December 2024, and the website has given the following information for organisations wishing to take part on their website here, and below: What is Giving Tuesday? Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement, that celebrates and encourages doing good. Giving Tuesday is all about the different ways you can give, you can:  Volunteer your time  Give some money  Campaign for something  Share your skills  Fundraise for something  Donate goods  Buy something from a charity shop  You can do your something good on Giving Tuesday,…

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UK’s first charity donation vending machines arrive in West Midlands

Stuart Mitchell

Shoppers in the West Midlands are the first in the country to be invited to make donations to charities – through vending machines. For the first time in the UK, ‘Light the World’ machines are being installed in Britain to help raise much needed funds for charities through donation cards.  Three specially fitted vending machines will be open to the public in the Touchwood Shopping Centre, Solihull, from November 15 until November 27. They’ll stock donation cards from seven charities, ranging from £3 to £400, so kind-hearted shoppers can decide exactly…

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Asda launches sustainable supply chain finance scheme

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has launched a new sustainability-linked enhancement to its Supply Chain Finance scheme in partnership with HSBC UK, which will see the retailer use financial incentives to encourage better sustainability practices within its supply chain. Launching in January 2025, the voluntary scheme will offer over 250 Asda suppliers who currently use the existing scheme access to three tiers of enhanced rates of financing. Access to each tier will be based on suppliers disclosing their ESG performance data, setting targets and taking action on shared sustainability goals. Performance will be scored…

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