Month: October 2025

Save the Children Wins Blackbaud Impact Changemaker Award for Technological Innovation

Stuart Mitchell

Save the Children has been recognized with the 2025 Blackbaud Impact Changemaker Award, celebrating bold innovation in donor engagement and technology transformation to drive greater impact for children worldwide. For over a century, Save the Children has evolved to meet the changing needs of children and stretch every dollar of support —adapting to shifting landscapes and embracing innovation to remain effective and sustainable. In today’s digital era, that progress demands state-of-the-art data infrastructure. Save the Children received the Changemaker Award for moving away from its long-standing child sponsorship program. Pioneered…

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Landmark £150m donation to the National Gallery

Stuart Mitchell

The Julia Rausing Trust is pleased to announce it has recently made a landmark pledge of £150 million to fund a transformational project at the National Gallery that will create a brand-new wing and public realm. The gift is the single largest donation ever pledged by The Julia Rausing Trust and has been made in memory of the British philanthropist, Julia Rausing, and her long association with the Gallery. The gift also marks the largest ever single cash donation to a museum or gallery globally. The National Gallery has unveiled…

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Progress in refugee education at risk from funding cuts, UNHCR warns

Stuart Mitchell

Cuts to humanitarian and development aid are putting hard-won recent progress in refugee education at risk, warns UNHCR in the tenth edition of its annual Refugee Education Report, published today.  “There have been tremendous efforts to increase enrolment at all levels for refugees,” Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said in the report’s foreword. “But there is still so much more to do.” Strikingly, the report shows a leap forward in tertiary enrolment to 9 per cent, up from 7 per cent last year and well on progress to…

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CAP – Keeping the regulator sweet

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Keeping the regulator sweet. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. We’ve all seen claims regarding sugar. “Sugar free”, “no added sugar” and “natural sweeteners” may seem like they are sprinkled around but, like sugar itself, marketers should use such claims carefully. “No added sugars” The CAP Code prohibits nutrition claims for foods unless they are authorised…

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Removing gas-fired power stations from ‘rigged’ electricity market could lower UK energy bills by over £5bn a year, report finds

Stuart Mitchell

The government could save households and businesses £5.1 billion a year on their energy bills, as soon as 2028, by overhauling the electricity market to stop gas-fired power stations from ‘unfair profiteering’, a new report published recently by Greenpeace UK has found. The new research from policy consultancy, Stonehaven – which was commissioned by Greenpeace UK – outlines energy system reforms that would remove gas plants from the wholesale electricity market and place them into a strategic reserve. This would stop expensive gas from setting electricity prices, protect UK billpayers…

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