Day: 13 April 2025

WARC Rankings 2025: Media 100 is now released! The world’s most awarded campaigns and companies for media

Stuart Mitchell

The WARC Media 100, the ultimate independent global benchmark of the world’s most awarded campaigns and companies for media, is now released. Compiled by WARC Creative, helping companies deliver creative marketing that works, the annual Media 100 Ranking is an aggregate of the results of the most important global and regional media awards of 2024. The shows tracked are determined in consultation with the WARC Rankings Advisory Board and by a yearly global panel survey. Anna Hamill, Senior Editor, WARC Creative, said: “The WARC Media 100 are annual worldwide league…

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AXA XL contributes $1.2 million to major African community climate-resilience partnership

Stuart Mitchell

AXA XL is providing a grant of $1.2 million to Save the Children for a five-year initiative to mitigate the impact of climate change across coastal ecosystems in Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Coastal Resilience Project – one of the largest ever to tackle climate resilience in the country – will empower coastal communities to plan for climate change and improve their livelihoods. It aims to reach 260,000 people directly, with a further one million people expected to benefit. Sierra Leone has one of the lowest CO2 emissions per capita in…

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New funding from Anchor Butter to strengthen community connections through food

Stuart Mitchell

UK Community Foundations (UKCF), in partnership with Anchor Butter, has launched its third year of the Anchor Community Connection Fund.  This year’s funding round will focus on London and the regions of Leicestershire and Rutland.  The London Community Foundation and Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation will oversee the distribution of £50,000 in grants to local organisations dedicated to bringing communities together through food. Reports from community-led groups, previously funded by the Anchor Community Connection Fund in the last two years, confirm that individuals and families have gained a lot more…

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Sodexo on track to halve its food waste in the UK and Ireland by the end of FY25

Stuart Mitchell

To mark WRAP’s annual Food Waste Action Week (17–23 March 2025), Sodexo UK & Ireland has announced that it is on course to meet its goal of cutting food waste by 50% by 2025 – five years ahead of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target of 2030. Reducing food waste is a key pillar of Sodexo’s 2040 net zero roadmap and a crucial step in its sustainability journey. Originally set in 2017 as part of its Better Tomorrow commitment, the FY25 target highlights the company’s leadership in tackling food…

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Charity In Kind Direct And Partners Launch Major In Store Campaign With Tesco, To Support The 2.2 Million UK Families Living In Hygiene Poverty

Stuart Mitchell

Latest data from charity In Kind Direct has revealed that 1 in 4 UK households with children are living in hygiene poverty, that’s 2.2m families who are facing impossible decisions to eat, heat or keep clean everyday. It’s our shared mission to ensure families can access the products they need to keep clean and well.  That’s why In Kind Direct are continuing to grow the campaign with longstanding partners Tesco, Unilever, Essity, Haleon, Kimberly Clark, Edgewell and P&G to support more families who are having to go without. The impact…

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