Day: 11 May 2025

The One Club Opens Entry Call For Global Next Creative Leaders 2025

Stuart Mitchell

The One Club for Creativity has opened the call for entries for the 10th annual Next Creative Leaders 2025, a free global competition recognizing women, non-binary, and trans creatives on the rise. Next Creative Leaders (NCL), established jointly with The 3% Movement, is the industry’s only free portfolio competition that identifies, celebrates, and provides a global platform to talented women, non-binary, and trans creatives who are making their mark on the world with both their work and unique point of view on creative leadership that’s changing the industry for the…

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Saint-Gobain Off-Site Solutions partners with XPO Logistics and Chopsticks charity to put timber off-cuts to good use

Stuart Mitchell

Saint-Gobain Off-Site Solutions and XPO Logistics have partnered with North Yorkshire charity Chopsticks to provide timber off-cuts to its woodworking group. Chopsticks support vulnerable adults in the community, providing them a safe working environment while teaching them new workshop skills.  Working with otherwise scrap timber, the Chopsticks team create wood kindling or recycle it into new products in the ‘Chopshed,’ creating items such as flower planters and picnic benches. As off-site manufacturers, Coventry-based Saint-Gobain Off-Site Solutions prioritises waste reduction. Through its Roofspace Solutions, Pasquill and Scotframe brands, the Saint-Gobain Off-Site…

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Donated Suits and Professional Attire Support FareShare Midlands’ Employability Programme

Stuart Mitchell

FareShare Midlands’ SkillsShare employability programmes have received a valuable donation of professional workwear from Suited for Success, a Birmingham-based charity that closed its doors at the end of 2024. The donation will help programme participants access free interview clothing to boost their confidence and job prospects. Since its creation, Suited for Success supported over 7,000 people across the West Midlands, offering interview coaching, employment preparation, and professional attire for jobseekers. Recognising a shared mission, the charity’s founder and former Chief Executive, Patricia White, reached out to FareShare Midlands to donate…

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Waitrose becomes the latest retailer to join Polytag’s Ecotrace Programme

Stuart Mitchell

Leading British supermarket chain, Waitrose & Partners, has become the latest major retailer to join Polytag’s Ecotrace Programme, an industry-led initiative aimed at transforming the tracking and recycling of single-use plastic packaging in the UK. As an Ecotrace member, Waitrose will gain access to the Polytag dashboard – an online hub which displays never-seen-before, live barcode-level lifecycle data on plastic packaging materials as they enter the recycling stream. Ecotrace – transforming the UK’s recycling sector The Ecotrace Programme was launched in the summer of 2024 to optimise the identification and…

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Sodexo Stop Hunger funding supports opening of social supermarket in Ashford, Kent

Stuart Mitchell

Sodexo’s Stop Hunger Foundation has provided vital funding to SE Kitchen (part of Social Enterprise Kent) to support in the opening of the community interest company’s second social supermarket in central Ashford, Kent introducing affordable, nutritious shopping for the local community. SE Kitchen offers healthy, budget-friendly options including its popular £1 fruit & veg bag, making fresh produce accessible to everyone. Recognising that unexpected bills can strain even the best of budgets, the social supermarket operates a no questions asked policy and aims to help those who may be facing…

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