Day: 3 July 2025

The PA Foundation publishes 2024 annual report and announces £2m+ in funding to 43 charities

Stuart Mitchell

The PA Foundation has published its 2024 annual report, announcing that it distributed over £2 million of grant-based funding and supported 43 charitable organisations last year. In partnership with PA Consulting (PA), the global innovation and transformation consultancy, the report highlights The PA Foundation’s key achievements, including its work with charity partners to break down barriers to social mobility. Its initiatives have created pathways to opportunity for those facing social, economic, or cultural disadvantage, and provided much-needed access to quality education, skills, and careers. In 2024, The PA Foundation: Distributed…

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Moda Group celebrates contributing over £1.2bn in social value through 10 years of ESG excellence

Stuart Mitchell

This is one of the key findings at the heart of Moda’s 2024 Next Generation Futures report – the annual publication on the progress of its bespoke ESG strategy of the same name. The 2024 report not only shares the business’s ESG achievements and updates from 2024, but provides brand new insights on its contributions to communities across the UK since it was founded a decade ago in 2014, with £57m of social impact, £97m of environmental impact and £1.1bn of economic impact. One such scheme was the continued work…

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Record year for Sodexo Stop Hunger’s National Volunteers’ Week activity

Stuart Mitchell

The Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation has marked National Volunteers’ Week 2025 by recording its highest number of volunteering hours for the annual event. Around 200 volunteers recorded over 1,000 volunteering hours between 2-6 June, in what is the Stop Hunger Foundation’s 20th anniversary year. Sodexo’s volunteering policy enables its employees to take three paid volunteering days each year supporting those who are most in need in our communities.  Every year, the Foundation marks National Volunteers’ Week by offering Sodexo colleagues the chance to volunteer at a range of sessions specifically…

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GiveWheel turns tables on event fundraising – now donors choose the cause

Stuart Mitchell

Fundraising platform GiveWheel has launched a new feature that turns the tables on event and individual sponsorship – controversially letting donors choose the charities that receive the income. The fundraiser can decide whether friends and family opt into a new DonorLed functionality – which opens up possibilities for smaller, niche causes, and charities meaningful to the donors themselves to benefit from their efforts. It won’t be for everyone, but it is hoped that donor-led fundraising can unlock charitable giving for events that don’t traditionally fundraise, and challenge donor fatigue in the sector…

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Carrefour aims to sell 30 million 1 euro books by 2030 to make reading accessible to all

Stuart Mitchell

Carrefour is pursuing its ambition to make reading accessible to all from an early age, and has set itself the target of selling 30 million 1 euro books by 2030. This initiative is in line with its program to combat illiteracy and dyslexia-related disorders. Making reading accessible to all, in particular by giving the youngest children a taste for reading, is a social challenge and a factor of inclusion, to which Carrefour intends to contribute by launching a new collection of 20 books at 1€ in partnership with Rue Des…

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