Month: April 2025

Association of Charitable Foundations and Blackbaud Announce Corporate Partnership to Enhance Social Impact 

Stuart Mitchell

The Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF), the UK’s leading membership association for foundations and independent grant-makers, and Blackbaud, the leading provider of software for powering social impact, are excited to announce a new corporate partnership that will enhance the effectiveness and reach of charitable foundations across the UK. ACF partners with select solutions providers and professional services firms to deliver deep sector insights and specialised technical expertise with its members. This partnership with Blackbaud is built on a shared commitment to enhance value for ACF members. Through collaboration, the partnership will…

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Social justice focus as funder launches ​‘ambitious’ 10-year vision

Stuart Mitchell

London’s biggest independent charity funder has launched a new 10-year funding policy focused on tackling the inequality and injustice that blights the capital. City Bridge Foundation says the new policy, Standing With Londoners, will position it as a social justice funder, with a sharper focus on tackling the root causes of inequality. The foundation has awarded over £840 million in 30 years of funding London’s charity sector, including an extra £200 million funding which supported the sector through Covid and the cost-of-living crisis. The additional funding is now drawing to an…

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Recycle Week 2024 drives down missed capture as campaign gears up to change recycling behaviours even further in 2025

Stuart Mitchell

Recycle Week, the flagship annual event delivered by Recycle Now for 22 years, returns 22-28 September to collaborate with even more NGO’s, businesses, schools, local authorities and community groups and to inspire even more people to recycle.  Aiming to go beyond awareness-raising and drive citizen behaviour change, the evaluation of last year’s Recycle Week shows that the campaign reached an estimated 7.3 million people. Of these, around 2.9 million indicated they have changed their recycling habits due to the campaign. After Recycle Week 2024, Recycle Now found that the missed capture rate…

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UK Research and Innovation publishes gender pay gap report

Stuart Mitchell

The sixth annual gender pay gap report highlights the percentage difference between the average hourly earnings for males and females across the organisation. The gender pay gap is a measure across all jobs in UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), not of the difference in pay between males and females for doing the same job. UKRI’s mean gender pay gap (GPG) has narrowed by 0.6 percentage points since 2022.The figures show that in 2024, UKRI’s mean gender pay gap was 9.0%, 1.3 percentage points higher than the UK national GPG, which…

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CISL’s Entopia Building shortlisted for RIBA award

Stuart Mitchell

The Cambridge headquarters of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, the Entopia Building, is among 23 projects nominated for the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) East Awards 2025. Constructed in 1939 to house a telephone exchange, the Entopia Building, formerly 1 Regent Street, was sustainably refitted at a cost of £12.6 million and CISL moved in in 2022. The building also houses the Canopy, a Cambridge community for entrepreneurs, startups, innovators and small businesses pioneering sustainability innovation.  Entopia’s retrofit was a collaborative project. The updated building achieved…

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