Day: 13 October 2025

Hey Girls CIC and This Girl Can launch Go With Your Flow, a campaign to support movement throughout the menstrual cycle

Stuart Mitchell

Hey Girls and This Girl Can have teamed up to launch Go With Your Flow, a new nationwide campaign celebrating low or no cost ways to move your body in tune with your menstrual cycle. The campaign takes a light and encouraging approach, recognising that fitting movement into busy lives can be especially hard, particularly for parents. Rather than promoting rigid exercise routines, Go With Your Flow focuses on listening to your body, making small changes, and finding activities that feel right at every stage of the cycle, whether that’s…

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One in three Brits admit they would go into ‘flight mode’ if someone had a seizure in public, new research finds

Stuart Mitchell

New research from Epilepsy Action has revealed a widespread lack of confidence among the UK public in knowing how to help someone experiencing an epileptic seizure. The poll of 2,000 adults found that one in three admitted they would go into ‘flight mode’ if they witnessed a seizure in public, while more than half (54%) saying they simply would not know what to do. Many of those surveyed also reported misconceptions about the right course of action. Almost one in ten (9%) said their instinct would be to hold the…

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Pennies Partners with Castles Technology to Launch Micro-Donations on Android Payment Terminals

Stuart Mitchell

Pennies, the UK’s leading micro-donation charity, has successfully launched its innovative solution on Castles Technology hardware, a leader in Android payment acceptance. This collaboration enables customers to easily add a small donation to their purchases in-store, seamlessly combining convenience with charitable giving. This important deployment, carried out in partnership with Lloyds Cardnet as the acquirer and Handepay and Merchant Rentals as key customers, demonstrates how technology can be harnessed quickly and effectively for good. Thanks to the ease of collaboration and technical flexibility provided by Castles Technology, the Pennies micro-donation…

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New CIPR research exposes widespread age discrimination in public relations profession

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has published research highlighting widespread age discrimination across the public relations profession, with older practitioners facing exclusion, stereotyping, and biased attitudes within workplace culture and HR processes. The report – ‘An age-old problem: What can we do to tackle ageism in PR?‘ – was conducted by Jenny Manchester MCIPR and sponsored by the CIPR’s PR Research Fund. Through 44 semi-structured interviews with PR professionals across different age groups, sectors, and seniority levels, the study examines how age-related bias manifests in workplace culture, recruitment…

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106 governments step forward with 191 commitments to accelerate the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and advance progress for all women and girls

Stuart Mitchell

In the strongest multilateral stand for women and girls in 30 years, 106 governments from all regions have stepped forward with 191 commitments to accelerate progress for all women and girls by 2030. Launched recently by UN Women, the Beijing+30 Priority Actions Dashboard showcases governments’ voluntary commitments to women’s rights and demonstrates that gender equality remains a rallying force for multilateralism. “This act of showing up for the rights of women and girls affirms a powerful truth: gender equality remains a unifying force for the world. And multilateralism is still…

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