Month: August 2025

Bureau Veritas Partners with IFC’s Building Resilience Index to Expand Resilience Verification Services Globally

Stuart Mitchell

Bureau Veritas, a global leader in Testing, Inspection, and Certification services (TIC), has signed the first global verifier agreement to expand the reach and impact of the Building Resilience Index (BRI). Under this agreement, Bureau Veritas will serve as a verification partner for BRI across key emerging markets in Latin America, Africa, and East Asia and the Pacific. An innovation of IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, BRI is a web-based framework designed to help developers, investors, and policymakers identify risks to buildings posed by natural hazards and…

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World-first suicide prevention platform launched at A Celebration of Hope event

Stuart Mitchell

Leeds-based suicide prevention organisation HelloHope brought together more than 80 people for a powerful and uplifting event, ‘A Celebration of Hope’, on Friday 18th July at Nexus, University of Leeds, where it unveiled an innovative platform to help save lives. The event, which raised over £3000 to support HelloHope’s lifesaving work, highlighted stories of survival, resilience, and action, featuring talks from lived experience suicide survivors and interveners. Speakers included Jonny Benjamin MBE, award-winning mental health campaigner and a suicide survivor whose viral ‘Find Mike’ campaign has inspired millions worldwide. Jonny…

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Northwell launch new gun violence campaign: “Kids are safe when you lock your gun in one”

Stuart Mitchell

Northwell Health, in partnership with New York-based advertising agency StrawberryFrog, has launched a poignant new television campaign aimed at preventing firearm-related deaths among children. The initiative urges New Yorkers to securely lock their firearms, reinforcing the importance of gun safety to prevent tragic and avoidable accidents.  A 30-second spot, titled “Things We Can Treat,” begins with wistful images of children happily at play and reveals how some have wounds that are healing—a brain surgery scar, a bloody knee, a heart surgery scar, a broken arm in a cast. These children…

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Havas UK&I Partners with 51toCarbonZero to Advance Sustainability Reporting and Climate Action

Stuart Mitchell

Havas UK&I has partnered with 51toCarbonZero (51-0), the leading climate technology platform for the advertising and media industries, to accelerate its sustainability transformation. The partnership marks a key step in enhancing the agency’s environmental capabilities through streamlined carbon reporting and robust analysis, greater internal ownership, and improved stakeholder engagement.  Havas UK&I will use 51-0’s platform to automate and centralise its carbon emissions tracking and move from annual to rolling measurement, enabling deeper operational insight and faster decision-making. The partnership will also empower more employees across the business to engage with…

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Kirsty Leighton Appointed PRCA Management Board Chair, Joining Sarah Waddington CBE to Form First Female Leadership Duo in PRCA History

Stuart Mitchell

The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has today announced that Kirsty Leighton, Founder and Group CEO of Milk & Honey PR, will become Chair of its Management Board following the Association’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in September.  Kirsty’s appointment follows the recent announcement of Sarah Waddington CBE as the PRCA’s new CEO, marking a historic milestone: for the first time in the Association’s history, two women will lead the organisation. This signals a bold and progressive step for the global PR body as it continues its mission to represent…

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