Month: March 2025

World Cocoa Foundation publishes first ever greenhouse gas accounting standard for the cocoa sector

Stuart Mitchell

The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) is leading the cocoa sector’s drive towards consistent reporting with the launch of the first-ever greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting standard for cocoa. Developed in collaboration with Quantis, a leading environmental sustainability consultancy, with support from industry leaders, the GHG Accounting Standard Methodology provides the cocoa industry with a unique, sector-wide approach to measuring, reporting and mitigating GHG emissions. The new standard is designed to help companies in the cocoa sector meet their Scope 3 reporting obligations. Covering topics like land use change, land management, carbon…

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Barnardo’s Urges People To Consider Fostering

Stuart Mitchell

More than 100 years of families opening up their homes and hearts to children across the country is being celebrated this week as Barnardo’s opens its archives to reveal the history of fostering. The leading children’s charity, which has run fostering services since the Victorian era, hopes sharing these historic images will show the incredible impact that fostering can have – and encourage more people to consider fostering at a time when the system is in crisis. The images include a family in 1964 enjoying a meal together, and children…

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Charity Launches Third Series of UK’s First Youth-Driven Grief Podcast

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s first children and young people’s bereavement charity, Winston’s Wish, is pleased to launch the third series of Britain’s first youth-driven grief podcast, hosted by and featuring young people with lived experience of bereavement. Estimates suggest that, devastatingly, each day, more than 100 children in the UK are bereaved of a parent and that figure doesn’t equate how many young people are coping with the death of a sibling, grandparent, friend, or another significant individual in their lives.  Established in 1992, Winston’s Wish is the UK’s first children and…

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60% of charities feel optimistic about fundraising in 2025

Stuart Mitchell

Six in ten charities feel optimistic about fundraising in 2025, according to new research from Enthuse, the donations, fundraising and event registration platform.  The fourth edition of the annual Charity Pulse report surveyed leaders at over 100 UK charities to find out how their organisations fared in 2024, as well as the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead in 2025.  A positive year for the sector In what was a challenging year financially for many UK households, the third sector showed its resilience with more than three quarters (77%) of good causes either…

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Comic Relief appoints creative and advertising visionary Philip Thomas as new Chair of Board of Trustees

Stuart Mitchell

Comic Relief has announced that Philip Thomas, a leading figure in the global marketing and advertising industry, has been appointed as Chair of the charity’s Board of Trustees. Philip is the current Chairman of the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, which he led as Chief Executive between 2006 and 2016. He is currently Executive Chairman of Informa Festivals, supporting the growth and development of a portfolio of global brands, including Cannes Lions, Game Developers Conference, Money20/20, Black Hat, and the Tech Week portfolio, including London Tech Week. For over 20…

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