Day: 31 August 2025

Octopus EV and Mastercard team up to supercharge UK businesses’ transition to EVs

Stuart Mitchell

Octopus Electric Vehicles (‘Octopus EV’), the UK’s leading 100% electric vehicle (‘EV’) leasing company, is teaming up with Mastercard to enable small businesses to benefit from its salary sacrifice scheme, which helps businesses and employees switch to electric vehicles.   Through the Mastercard Business Bonus programme, small business cardholders can sign up to Octopus EV’s innovative salary sacrifice scheme and offer their employees an additional £100 charging credit when ordering an electric car.  Salary sacrifice allows employees to lease new or nearly new EVs by sacrificing part of their pre-tax salary, unlocking savings of…

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‘ROAM’ explores urgent need to rebuild a kinder, more connected world for wildlife

Stuart Mitchell

At a time when U.S. support for global conservation is being drastically cut and climate change is forcing wildlife to adapt to new realities, award-winning science journalist Hillary Rosner offers a powerful and timely new book. ROAM: Wild Animals and the Race to Repair Our Fractured World (Patagonia, October 2025, hardcover) examines one of the most underreported environmental crises of our time: the global fragmentation of ecosystems and the barriers preventing wildlife from moving freely. In ROAM, Rosner asks urgent questions: Where will we be in 20 years if we…

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2025-2026 FOARE Scholarship Recipients Announced

Stuart Mitchell

The Foundation for Out of Home Advertising Research and Education (FOARE) announced the 14 students who will receive Foundation scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic year. The FOARE Scholarship Program supports the education and career goals of those who are part of the out of home (OOH) advertising industry family as well as students who may have an interest in the industry or be in a position to shape its future. Since the program was established in 2001, 248 students have received FOARE scholarships.  The following recipients have been awarded $5,000…

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Countdown to October 1: Trade bodies launch LHF ad restrictions awareness drive

Stuart Mitchell

A group of UK advertising’s trade bodies including the Advertising Association, ISBA, the IPA, IAB UK, has launched a comprehensive, cross-industry awareness campaign to help professionals working on Q4 campaigns understand the incoming Less Healthy Food (LHF) advertising restrictions. The campaign will signpost key resources including FAQs and online training to help the industry comply with the restrictions from October 1, 2025. The campaign highlights an Industry Agreement with the Government that from October 1, ads for identifiable LHF products should not be shown before the watershed on Ofcom-licensed TV…

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Fairtrade, banana sector speak up about gender-based violence

Stuart Mitchell

Led by the Latin American and Caribbean Coordinator of Small Producers and Fair Trade Workers (CLAC), a group 75 leaders in Latin America’s banana sector pledged their commitment to a new campaign that seeks to raise awareness, prevent, and address gender-based violence and sexual harassment in the banana industry. Tainted in the colour orange, the “Silence does not protect” campaign is a call to build communities where workers, especially women, can live and work with dignity. “For decades, silence has made violence in our fields and workplaces invisible. This campaign…

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