Month: January 2025

Lloyds launches tool to help eligible customers claim benefits, with £23bn a year going unclaimed

Stuart Mitchell

Eight million households across the UK are missing out on an estimated £23bn worth of benefits each year, such as Child Benefit, Universal Credit and Pension Credit. To financially empower its customers, Lloyds has launched ‘Benefit Calculator’, a new app feature that gives customers a simple way to identify the benefits they may be eligible for and find out how to make a claim. Benefit Calculator could help a wide range of people to access support, such as young professionals who may be missing out on Council Tax discounts, homeowners…

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The LEGO Group joins UNICEF in launching design toolbox to empower digital games industry to champion children’s well-being in digital play

Stuart Mitchell

The LEGO Group recently joined UNICEF to launch a new toolbox which will support game designers to embrace children’s well-being in their work whilst also responding to parents and caregivers’ concerns about their children’s digital gaming. The Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children (RITEC) Design Toolbox is a powerful new resource dedicated to fostering the well-being of children engaging in digital play and ensuring safe and enriching digital experiences for them. The online world is an area in which children’s needs and voices have historically been absent, despite the increasing…

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A global sustainable food system could lift 300 million people out of undernourishment, Deloitte reports

Stuart Mitchell

Released during Novembers COP29, Deloitte’s new report, Turning point: feeding the world sustainably quantifies the potential social and economic benefits resulting from sustainably transforming global food production. Around 730 million people—nearly 10% of the global population—are presently undernourished. The global challenge is three-fold: addressing the needs of a growing population, lifting more people out of the undernourishment cycle, and decarbonizing the agricultural sector and food system at the same time. To feed the world sustainably by 2070 would require limiting warming to below 2° C while producing 40% more calories to…

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BMW Group Trials Wind Energy Innovation in UK First

Stuart Mitchell

BMW Group recently announced the installation of the UK’s first “motionless” wind energy system at the MINI manufacturing plant in Oxford. Utilising Aeromine Technologies’ innovative, low-impact technology, the system harnesses wind power to produce clean energy without visible moving parts. BMW Group’s Oxford Plant will serve as a testbed for this cutting-edge technology, assessing its potential to enhance energy efficiency across BMW Group sites around the world, as well as commercial buildings in the UK. This new innovative energy project is part of the BMW Startup Garage, a business unit…

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“And it’s Octopus Energy with the assist!” UK’s top power firm gives free football kit to thousands of clubs including Lewisham’s Saving Souls FC

Stuart Mitchell

Octopus Energy has given a huge boost to Lewisham local football by sponsoring grassroots clubs like Saving Souls FC with brand-new, snazzy football kits – completely free. Members of the company’s popular rewards program Octoplus could nominate their local teams for free ‘Octokits’ in club colours and branding. Octoplus is used by over 2 million customers who have racked up over £13 million-worth of points. Octopus Energy aimed to kit out 500 kids’ teams as part of this giveaway. But the response was so overwhelming that it accepted applications for…

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