Month: February 2025

Campaign Collective launches guide for first-time local campaigners

Stuart Mitchell

Social enterprise Campaign Collective has launched a new guide to help grassroots and first-time campaigners who want to take action on a local issue. Hear My Voice is a downloadable campaign guide packed with top tips on how to influence those in power, providing all the tools and techniques needed to run a successful local campaign. Nancy Platts, one of the guide’s authors, said: “Whether people want to get a new crossing to make local roads safer for their kids or prevent the closure of a local service, it’s important…

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Fundraising Regulator appoints four board members to start in April

Stuart Mitchell

The Fundraising Regulator is pleased to announce it has appointed four new members to its board to help guide the strategic direction of the organisation. Paul Amadi, Anne Heal, Nick Jones, and Girish Menon all bring extensive knowledge and experience in charity, fundraising and regulation. They will commence their new roles in April 2025. Paul Amadi joins as a Fundraising Regulator board member with substantial expertise in charitable fundraising, including in his current role as Executive Director of Marketing, Fundraising and Communications at the British Red Cross. He has previously…

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Charity leaders set out the sector’s ‘asks’ ahead of Spending Review

Stuart Mitchell

As part of the Civil Society Group (CSG), Charity Finance Group (CFG), the UK’s leading membership organisation for charity finance professionals, has written to the Chancellor ahead of the Spending Review in June 2025. Signed by 22 charity leaders, including the CEOs of NAVCA, ACF, ACEVO, NCVO, SCVO, WCVA and CIoF, the group’s letter sets out 16 recommendations for what it wants to see Labour deliver in its second major fiscal event of their term. The group is calling on Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to consider several quick…

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First global gathering of Food and Plastics Networks to prevent devastating environmental impacts

Stuart Mitchell

Representatives from 15 countries met in Mexico this week for Pact Network Connect 2025, a three-day programme focussed on addressing the issue of our broken food systems, and the spiralling environmental cost of plastic pollution and waste.  Convened by global environmental action NGO WRAP, Pact Network Connect 2025 was the first time the two networks – 13 international Plastics Pacts run in conjunction with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation – and 11 Food Pacts met as one to share experiences and strategies to strengthen collaborative efforts on the two environmental crises.   The…

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Amazon places the UK’s biggest-ever order of electric trucks, and moves onto Britain’s electric railways

Stuart Mitchell

Amazon recently announced the expansion of zero-exhaust emission deliveries in the UK, with its largest-ever order of electric heavy-goods vehicles (eHGVs). For the first time, Amazon packages are now also being transported at scale on the UK’s electric rail network. In addition, the company has launched on-foot customer deliveries for the first time in central London, with trolleys that can be restocked while on-the-go. These developments will help take traditional diesel vans and trucks off the UK’s roads, reduce carbon emissions, alleviate traffic congestion, and improve air quality, as part…

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