Month: October 2025

Community Wealth Fund Alliance celebrates major campaign success as England’s most disadvantaged neighbourhoods receive vital investment in social infrastructure

Stuart Mitchell

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) recently confirmed that the Community Wealth Fund will be targeted at the doubly disadvantaged neighbourhoods most in need of investment in civic capacity building.   The announcement reflects the ongoing, cross-sectoral support for the campaign’s core principles following the launch of a technical consultation on the Community Wealth Fund’s design principles in September 2023. These include long-term, patient funding (10-15 years); investment directly into doubly disadvantaged neighbourhoods; community-led decision making; and appropriate…

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XCF Global and Posh Energy Sign Letter of Intent to Deploy Flex-Fuel Gensets,

Stuart Mitchell

XCF Global, Inc., a key player in decarbonizing the aviation industry through Sustainable Aviation Fuel (“SAF”), announces that it has signed a Letter of Intent (“LOI”) with Posh Robotics (“Posh” dba Posh Energy), an advanced clean energy company founded by Stanford alumni and backed by Y-Combinator, through its subsidiary New Rise Renewables Reno, LLC (“New Rise Reno”) to explore deploying Posh Energy’s Flex-Fuel Gensets at the New Rise Reno renewable fuels facility. Posh’s Flex-Fuel Gensets are expected to be installed at New Rise Reno to convert byproducts from SAF and…

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Effie UK Announces 2025 Awards Finalists

Stuart Mitchell

Effie UK has announced 49 cases will go through to the final round of judging for the 2025 Effie Awards UK – the programme which is the benchmark for marketing excellence and recognises the most effective marketing campaigns across various industries and disciplines.  With a higher percentage of finalists this year than ever before, and a particularly high standard of submissions, the Positive Change category (spanning non-profit, environment and brand) picked up the most shortlisted entries with five finalist papers. In total, the 49 finalists span 29 categories this year.…

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WCS Launches Global Strategy to Secure the Future of Coral Reefs in a Changing Climate

Stuart Mitchell

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) today launched its 2025–2030 Coral Reef Conservation Strategy, a landmark plan to conserve the world’s most climate-resilient coral reefs. Rooted in more than 40 years of WCS experience and new cutting-edge science, the strategy places high integrity climate-resilient coral reefs (HICOR) at the heart of global conservation action. Coral reefs are biodiversity hotspots and lifelines for coastal communities, covering less than 1% of the ocean but sustaining more than 25% of marine species and supporting nearly 1 billion people. Yet, they are among the ecosystems…

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CAP – Naughty or Nice? Stick to the ad rules this Christmas

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Naughty or Nice? Stick to the ad rules this Christmas. 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. Without wishing to channel our inner Scrooge, it’s important for us to remind you that the Advertising Codes apply all year around. Christmas is no exception. Below are four ways to ensure its ‘Christmas as usual’ for your 2025…

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