Year: 2024

Barclays and Channel 5 partner to champion better money management across the UK with Nick Knowles

Stuart Mitchell

Sky Media, the advertising arm of Sky, consumer bank Barclays UK and Channel 5, have announced a brand new and exclusive TV and social media partnership to encourage conversations about money management, featuring broadcaster’s much-loved presenter Nick Knowles. The light-hearted and educational six-part series launches tonight on Channel 5 during Bank Scams: Don’t Get Caught Out at 19:00 and during New: Fresh vs. Frozen: Which is Better at 20:00.  It aims to educate viewers on how to deal with financial challenges using Barclays’ products and services to help make money…

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VSL Labs Leverages GenAI to Bridge Communication Gap for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HoH) Community

Stuart Mitchell

VSL Labs recently announced the launch of a new assistive technology based on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) that provides easier access to information for the deaf and hard of hearing (HoH). Available as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, it translates spoken language (voice or text) into generative sign language interpretation. VSL Labs’ technology allows individuals with hearing challenges to use apps, websites, meeting platforms, and videos for various daily interactions. With just a few lines of code, systems and companies can create real-time sign language translation, making the world more inclusive…

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Hubbub launches new ‘Community Nature Network’ to connect, grow and fund community green spaces

Stuart Mitchell

Environmental charity Hubbub has launched its first ever ‘Community Nature Network’ to help community-led green spaces thrive and bring nature closer to people and people closer to nature. The Community Nature Network, supported by funding from the Wates Family Enterprise Trust and the Bentley Environmental Foundation, will offer funding opportunities, free resources, guidance and peer to peer support to community groups who wish to establish new green spaces or improve existing ones. The network is free to join from today and is open to any publicly-accessible community-led green space. The…

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Under2 Coalition announces three new Future Fund projects

Stuart Mitchell

Climate Group has selected three powerful local projects in Brazil, Mexico and Indonesia to support under the Future Fund project this year. In a highly competitive field, these projects stood out for their long term impact and scalability – potentially helping governments across the network to learn from their example and increase their ambition. The three successful projects will take place in: Acre, Brazil: Analytical diagnosis of the impact of floods on the socially vulnerable population of the State of Acre through an online platform. Data acquisition/survey to create a visualization…

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Number of youth not in employment, education, or training (NEET) a cause for concern, despite falling jobless rate

Stuart Mitchell

The global labour market outlook for young people has improved in the last four years, and the upward trend is expected to continue for two more, according to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report. However, the report, titled Global Employment Trends for Youth 2024 (GET for Youth), cautions that the number of 15- to 24-year-olds who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) is concerning, and that the post-COVID 19 pandemic employment recovery has not been universal. Young people in certain regions and many young women are not…

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