Day: 6 December 2024

Refuge calls for tech-facilitated abuse to be a priority in government VAWG strategy

Stuart Mitchell

In the wake of hosting its first Technology Safety Summit, the domestic abuse charity Refuge is calling on the government to make tackling technology-facilitated abuse a key part of its plan to halve VAWG (violence against women and girls). To meet rising demand, Refuge set up a specialist technology-facilitated abuse and economic empowerment service in 2017, the only one of its kind in England. Since then, cases have grown both in quantity and complexity with Refuge reporting a 207% increase in referrals to the tech team compared to its first…

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A decade of collective impact – LocalMotion secures £18m funding until 2031

Stuart Mitchell

Social justice network, LocalMotion, recently announced it has secured a £18.4 million investment from within its original collaborative group of funders. The sustained investment of expertise and resources until 2031 will ensure LocalMotion’s six places can continue their work to realise the untapped, under-resourced potential of local people to influence what happens where they live.  Since its inception four years ago, LocalMotion has made significant progress devolving power to communities to tackle local social, environmental, and economic injustices. It started as the collective endeavour of six UK funders (City Bridge…

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Greene King Announces £20,000,000 Milestone in Fundraising Efforts for Macmillan Cancer Support

Stuart Mitchell

Greene King has announced a significant £20m fundraising milestone achieved for its long-term charity partner Macmillan Cancer Support. The funds, that have been raised collectively across more than 2,600 pubs, restaurants and hotels in towns, villages and city-centre high streets across England, Wales and Scotland, forms the significant charitable contribution. Fundraising has come from team members around the UK taking on a host of extreme personal challenges such as scaling mountains, hiking and running marathons, as well as pub teams hosting local fundraising events, pub quizzes and Macmillan Coffee Mornings…

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Government partners with civil society to transform lives across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

Government marks ‘new beginning’ of relationship with civil society to tackle some of society’s most pressing issues with launch of a new ‘Civil Society Covenant’ The creation of a ‘Civil Society Covenant’ will usher in a new era of partnership between government and civil society and help tackle some of the country’s biggest challenges, the Prime Minister and Culture Secretary will announce today.  The new Covenant is designed to harness the knowledge and expertise of voluntary, community, social enterprises (VCSEs) and charities to deliver better outcomes for communities right across…

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Despite cost-of-living pressures, more people are giving to charity digitally than ever before

Stuart Mitchell

Pennies, the award-winning fintech charity which enables micro-donations to charity, has conducted a landmark survey[1] of UK consumers to gauge attitudes and behaviours about donating to charities. After being told that if every UK cardholder gave just 35p a week to charity, it could raise an additional £1 billion for charities every year, almost half (48%) of respondents said that they’d be more likely to micro-donate.   Consumers more likely to micro-donate when they know that if every UK cardholder gave 35p a week to charity, charities would raise £1…

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